So cool to learn about these, thanks! I've tried and failed to self-host Nextcloud in the past, but really need to give it another go. Their contacts app is also something I've wanted for a while now.
This looks promising, thank you! I'm a novice self-hoster and look forward to learning more about this one.
For real. This one got me the best:
“We held a meeting and decided being radically open about gender while adopting a puritanical outlook on sex was the best way to shock Boomers to death.”
Amazing self-own admitting that the internet and public schools are your ideological enemies:
According to Boreing: “Kids go to school for 40 hours a week and then they engage in pop culture for 40 more hours every week. That means for 80 hours of a child’s week, you are turning them over to the left. A good parent might spend 15 minutes a day in meaningful conversation with their kids … A great parent might take their kid to church for one hour, or two hours, or three hours a week. The other 80, they’re watching Disney … they’re online … they’re in public schools.”
Even their non-political statements are political. I hate that some people don’t see through this shit:
In a video statement on Monday marking Bentkey’s launch, Boreing said: “Bentkey isn’t about teaching kids politics, it’s about childhood and wonder and adventure. It’s about values and all of the things on which politics are built later.”
For comprehensible input to be effective as a beginner, I think you just need to match your content to your language level. If it’s too difficult it all just washes over you and you don’t really take anything in.
I find covers of songs in my target language at first, that way ideally I already know what the lyrics should be. Or read the lyrics as you listen at first, translating as needed, then repeating the song often.
For videos at least on YouTube/Netflix, I really enjoy using a plugin called Language Reactor. It gives you the subtitles line by line, with dictionary translation on hover and with full-line translations. It does more if you pay I think. But the free version is better than Lingopie which does similar but with limited content.
Also lingQ can import subtitles from YouTube/Netflix I think, the only advantage there being that lingQ keeps a database of your known words in each language.
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