mick33 wrote:Now I wonder if there's a way to get the algorithm to recommend more videos in Catalan?
Well, find two or three videos in Catalan. I watched two snooker videos - the first because all the red balls were down in one corner with one irritating ball in another colour blocking the hole, the second because a lady named Mink played against a male person (I have forgotten his name, but he was allegedly worried) - and I didn't even watch all of that last one, but afterwards the damned algorithm thing believes that I truly dig snooker. I could just remove the cookies, but then the thing might surmise that I yearned to watch cat videos... or 'funny' videos made by selfdestructive youngsters.
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By the way, I have found some channels with science videos in Spanish and Portuguese - and I actually do think that I also have watched Catalan science videos several times so I did a test. I searched for "ciència catala" - and found several videos about science by a man named Català, but that's enough to get started. Right now I'm listening to "Els mites de la ciència: Daniel Closa at
TEDxAndorralaVella" with a man that just talks in Catalan with subtitles. I don't need the subtitles any more, but earlier in my learning process it would have been just the right kind of content.
And apart from that: being a proud nerd I have written quite a few entries in this thread, so let me just mention the books that I currently have stocked on the chair that makes it out for a nighttable in my house: "Prima mea călătorie în străinitate" in Romanian (plus Langenscheidt's tiniest Romanian-German dictionary), "Teach yourself Samoan" from 1973 (and no, I don't intend to study Samoan), Saraiva's "História concisa de Portugal" (so far they have discovered Brazil and wonder what to do now),"Ρόδος - το νησή του Ήλιου" (a Guide to Rhodes), "Historia de la universala lingvo Volapuko" in Esperanto and "40 leçons pour découvrir le grec ancien" (so far unused). The last couple of nights I have read excerpts from the Rhodes book, but being reading materials to fall asleep on all these books seem to have the same effect: I fall asleep.
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