/hob/ - Hobbies

>>41822
>what language are you learning
french
>what tools do you use to learn it
netflix,music and google translate
im now b2 and i consider myself pretty fluent this is the easiest and the most enjoyable way to learn languages

read the book, fluent forever by gabriel wyner(sp?) will help a lot.

different language require some different approach, you generally get good return on building vocabulary though.

biggest mistake people do trying to learn a language is they try to learn by latching onto their native language with those ideas, words, thoughts. you need to build an entirely new language from the ground up, that means not associating your new language words to your old language words, you need an intermediary, a translation and interpretation layer far more powerful for the mind, that is imagery and emotion. you need to build your language up from thinking the target language word, and first thing that comes into your mind are images, and not the translated meaning in your native tongue. that is the crux and major stumbling block/paradigm shift required to be proper successful and where most fail with their language learning.

find a movie you know really well, all the dialogue, get the sub and dub for it, play it in background or on another screen. listen to music in that target language, watch videos. have an actual physical good dictionary for that language next to you, do this as a habit you hear a word, you randomly open up and try find it, try find what it means.

language acquisition is making all these little easy habits that add up and require almost no effort, for years, culminating into almost effortless. or you can train hard all out for a couple weeks.months then forget about it and never pick it up again. i tried both, i made the mistakes, and learned, then got better. maybe this can help you if you try it. that book fluent forever check it out.

is the thread alive yet?

>>61740
дышишь


лишили лилии

avoid Russian cursive

>>65757
>tfw my keyboard is a cheap bluetooth one for tablets
am I missing out?

>>69166
Depends entirely on how much you type/use the keyboard.

Dropping lots of cash on a mech keyboard isn't the correct answer for everyone.

>>69166
Don't let FOMO rob of you of present satisfaction

>>65757
I have some cheapo GXT mechanical keyboard with red switches. It's great, it works, though I've also had membrane keyboards a decade ago that also felt super nice. As long as they keys aren't those flat laptop style keys I don't really care much. I prefer the feeling of Blue switches but hate the sound. Browns are just a bad compromise.

N00b tier question: what's difference between blue keycaps and red keycaps?

>>65426
i feel like i should note that i don't care at all about french language or culture, and maybe this is why i liked this so much. it glorified in a comedic way ancient france's origin as gaul, and made fun of modern french culture. most of the comedy was situational and via props and actions. it was just a good movie, but it was french so i felt like posting about it here. apparently the first movie in the series reignited french filmmaking and received so much attention and praise, so it seems to have become a cherished series over in france i think

i started learning french in may 2023 with the goal of reading french philosophy and sociology books. i guess i got to the level i wanted to by a year or so later, but i got too lazy with just watching fun stuff on youtube like let's plays (in french) that i'm only just now trying to read actual french philosophy. it's going great, tho. some of it i find tough, but it's because the ideas, concepts, and arguments that i'm finding tough, the language itself isn't giving me any trouble.

i still struggle to understand very casual french, it feels like trying to understand a thick scottish accent as an esl. i could improve in that respect if i engaged a lot with it, but i actually don't care.

i'm also one of those who thinks (or thought) that the language sounds really ugly. but now i honestly can't really remember what it "sounded" like.

Hello fellow wizards. I know you guys have given some resources in this thread, but for a guy who is just learning French alone, what do you guys recommend. Any help would be appreciated, thank you all.

Any suggestions for French songs? Akin to attached?

>>69749
heres something catchy for you

>>69816
He has made several threads on /diy/. I don't recall him making a thread here but if he did I hope he doesn't return.

>>69817
what'd he ever do to you? I think what he is creating is grand

>>69822
Look at his /diy/ threads. I think his obsession with his robots is interesting and admire his relentlessness but it is quite clear that he has no idea what he's doing. His arrogance when experienced people point out his ignorance is off-putting. That being said, I do not resent him and wish him all the best but looking at his track record it seems unlikely he'll get even remotely close to success.

Sadly I can't help you as much as I wish. The most inmediate alternative I know about is archive.today.
https://archive.ph/

>>69065
>retro vidya

Aliexpress *may* an HDD for gaming


low-end 320gb disk
usb interface
50$
full of retro vidya
bootable
may be useful if you own an old lappy

>>69065
archive.org is back


but still


play dos games online, theres a site… doszone, i suppose

>>69065
BUMP WITH A REMINER

ARCHIVE.ORG IS BACK AND ALRIGHT save for the 2020's "borrowing" mechanics for books


you can download stuff from "community software" or such, for example… or "MMCD" disk full of DOS era games

>>69769
*as a psychiatrist, I mean

>>61006
You are looking at opinions from the loons in the looney bin, or ones who should be. That is like asking a criminal/prisoner what he thinks about law enforcement and prisoner reform.

Dont be discouraged. Mental health professionals helped me far better than anyone here did. If anything, ignoring the loons on the internet is what did the most good in my life.

>>69789
THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE? Go to your safe spaces! Go to places where you 'benefit'! Go to twatter! Its like going to a cafe and bragging that the competitor is better, why the fuck are you shitting up this place?

>>69791
Old habits die hard

>>69792
'Old habits' kill yourself. You're really out here calling virgins 'loons'. If wizchan was a 'habit' you wouldn't become a twatter normienigger. Fuck off.

>>68684
for what purpose? to share your knowledge or to use as a catalyst?
lately i also been toying with the idea of putting all the knowledge i have on various subjects as a grimoire-style book for others to use as a guide to understand the world, like the old books of yore used to be.
like this chapter explains in a simple way (but with load of symbols and esoteric drawings) how gravity and the other forces work and how to understand them in the day by day, meanwhile this other chapter explains evolution and how the environmental pressures shape it, but with drawings and symbols that make it look like the voynich manuscript.

I already learned how to make old style books with leather and parchment, so now im in the sorting-info-and-making-it-easy-to-understand part. any tips?

>>68685
Looks like something an edgy teenager would doodle in class

>>69777
>putting all the knowledge i have on various subjects as a grimoire-style book for others
Sweet! I've also considered a condensed journal of musings and observations for myself but I fear it'll just end up in the recycling along with my comic book collection when I die. When my grandmother passed, the house was empty by the weekend; my relatives aren't nostalgic for anything.

>>68684
Kabbalah is gay and Jewish

>>69780
>When my grandmother passed, the house was empty by the weekend; my relatives aren't nostalgic for anything.


<not using grandma's cookware to cook dishes from her recipes


rats!

>>66274
try leetcode and codeforce. This roadmap is organized in a way you learn techniques which you build up to solve more complexes problems. But the is a rule, after 30~60 minutes without solving yourself, read the solution and focus on similar problems which require that technique
https://neetcode.io/roadmap

>>66259
a good post on wizchan? thats bullshit dont post here ever again

>>66259
this seems very helpful, thank you

>>66259
>Some engineering advice for you:

effing saved

>>66259
Great advice except for the sex part.

(11) Read other people's code.

>>69014
theres no such thing as celtic.

>>69014
If you want to continue playing video games, without spending a ton of money on the new stuff coming out, I genuinely suggest playing titles from the 2000's or even 90's and 80's through things like emulation, it's cheap, often free even, and there's literally enough video games to keep you occupied for the rest of your life without you having to spend money on any new ones, it's nice…

Have you ever tried this out, OP?

>>69014
Take the emupill and just play the zillions of great retro games on a decent PC. Even a very budget build with a Ryzen 5 5600 and RTX 3060 can emulate pretty much EVERYTHING here, even PS3 games:

https://myrient.erista.me/files/No-Intro/
https://myrient.erista.me/files/Redump/

Recommendations for great classic games:

https://vsrecommendedgames.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

Get started with emulation:

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

>>69014
Pirate old video games. Most of them are never re-released anyway so have your fill. If you do that you will have enough to play to last this whole tariff war out.

I wonder if Sinclair Spectrum era games can be ported to modern devices found easily

I don't feel comfortable sharing my /x/ fantasies here because some cryptonormie is gonna shit on it. You know how you can really like a song, but then you hear some normie listening to it on a bus or something, and the song is ruined for you? It's like that.

But it has to do with souls having genders; there are feminine souls, and there are masculine souls. And yes, one can be a soul in an opposite-gender body.

>>69473
>You know how you can really like a song, but then you hear some normie listening to it on a bus or something, and the song is ruined for you?
No, that is mental illness

>>69460
Chaos Magick is the only kind of occult phenomena that verges on seeming plausible. The idea that perception affects reality.
Interesting video from a Scottish comic book writer on chaos magick/occultism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTMFBYXmvMk

>>69494
I second this channel

anyone interested in the idea of remote viewing?
dont know where to post this and dont want to make a thread about it.

this is an interesting video