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When you find the Speakly website so slow, that you fill the loading times with the Clozemaster app on the phone

coralsea wrote:You're absolutely enraged at the lack of streaming services offering:
+ Search by country of origin
+ Search by native language
+ Audio in native language
+ CC in native language matching native audio

https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/

They have a youtube plugin too.

When you're having a conversation in English (which is your co-native language) but somehow you're actually translating from Esperanto in your head.
When you spend your lunch time thinking about the ratio of romance to germanic vocabulary in Esperanto, and just how weird a greeting 'bonan tagon' is, because it incorporates both romance and germanic roots.

(ok, maybe I'm just an Esperanto nerd who pretends to be interested in other languages)

alaart wrote:

coralsea wrote:You're absolutely enraged at the lack of streaming services offering:
+ Search by country of origin
+ Search by native language
+ Audio in native language
+ CC in native language matching native audio

https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/

They have a youtube plugin too.

Cool! Thanks!

you track your learning progress more closely than your work and personal finances

When your study schedules are so multiconfused and unpredictable that you can't see the point in tracking your activities, let alone your progress. My system seems to work without counting hours or pages so why change anything?

OK, I do count words, but there are several years between each count for a given languages so it hardly qualifies as 'tracking'

I'm not at all surprised that YouTube is suddenly recommending Greek pop music for me to watch, even though I've never searched for Greek videos on YouTube!

When you don't consider "you speak Chinese like you're from China" a compliment because you're trying to have a Singaporean/Malaysian accent, and that means you've failed.

When you can never watch Pitch Perfect 2 again because there was a German a cappella group called "Das Sound Machine", but the actual German word Maschine is feminine, not neuter, so it should have been die Soundmaschine! Or maybe die Klangmaschine if you aren't in a Denglisch mood.

A for Assimil
B for bidirectional translation
C for comprehensible input