Clojurians Log v2

there is one already https://slackmojis.com/emojis/142711-robot-poop

😂

It’s better than I could have imagined

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you can ask in #C04V84U7G to add this one? ;)

Side note, if I were to learn a language x I’d do it like this: - watch movies in language x original audio - also have subtitles in x - and subtitles in my own language, at the top of the screen So you get to listen and read at the same time, with a cheatsheet just in case. First movie might take 12 hours or whatever with all the pausing, re-watching, note taking, etc, but then next one will take a few minutes less. Then recur

To summarize : Spanish: I sleep Portuguese: REAL SHIT

The problem is that they are very similar. I sometimes even understand it. So imagine you’re listening to ordinary English audio. It goes fine for twenty minutes and then suddenly and randomly switches to Cockney for just a few sentences, and then, as if nothing at all had happened, goes back to normal. It just momentarily wakes me up and feels weird. Sometimes it’s not even in Portuguese, it’s in Spanish but with a weird Portuguese accent. In some videos sometimes it’s in Spanish but with a thick gringo accent.

Fun fact, I’m living in Uruguay for 6 years now. The other day I was reading my daughter a bedtime story… and the Spanish felt weird somehow. Turns out that the book was from Spain - and then I learned that, surprisingly, the grammatical structure from Spain’s Spanish is way more similar to Brazilian Portuguese (my main language) than Uruguay’s Spanish…

Ah, that explains why I couldn’t understand much anything, watching “Society of the Snow”. I had to switch to English subtitles.

Yes, it’s insanely different! The first months here, we felt like we were translating each individual word to Spanish instead of speaking how it’s supposed to 😄 (also, the accent - it’s VERY HARD in the beginning)