My recommendation is actually the opposite of what you are asking for. Language Transfer is a series of audio files where you hear a teacher speaking to a student in a kind of Socratic dialogue.

Everything is completely free. You can find it on YouTube, SoundCloud, download MP3s, or use the simple but very effective app. I have been supporting it with monthly donations for about 5 years.

There are courses for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili, and for Spanish speakers wanting to learn English. British Sign Language and Japanese are coming. Some of these are introductory courses, others are more complete.

In addition to my native English,I have learned one language in school, and three more by immersion + lessons) self-study. I have to say that Language Transfer is the best system I have ever used.

The emphasis is on internalizing, and developing strategies for retrieving information in your brain, rather than wrote memorization. I found that I retained knowledge much better, and it has lasted longer.

My only meeting was that the “they” who revolutionized gaming are not the same people who are in the company now. I have no doubt that they are absolutely top-tier game developers.

John Carmack, Adrian Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall. These were the founders of ID software. None of them are there now. It’s a different company.

That’s not to say that Microsoft isn’t stupid and evil for this and many other things, but they didn’t lay off the people who revolutionized the game industry.

The VPN works because you can use the service in another country that doesn’t require digital ID.

You are right. And the traditional text that I saw in Japanese temples was written from right to left, top to bottom.

I suspect it’s because the characters in Japanese at least, all take up exactly the same sized box. We find English easier to read when it uses a proportional font, so different letters take up different widths.

Also, Japanese is commonly written top to bottom, left to right, in printed materials but left to right, top to bottom, when handwriting or for casual text. Once in a while, though, they do top to bottom, right to left. I’ve seen this in temples, so I think it’s a traditional format.

In my mind, left to right, top to bottom make sense when writing with ink, because then your hand doesn’t smudge the already-written characters. Unless you are a lefty, of course.

the legislators who did nothing to protect the people they were elected to serve because of their own greed and self-interest.

Thanks, Citizens United!

Any reason it it spelled “Mithrall” instead of “Mithril”? Is that trademarked or something?

I mean, it seems unlikely they could deny that it is heavily based on Tolkien mythology.

C’mon, weren’t you blown away by the (at the time) novel digitized voice? “He slimed me!”

Of course, escape from Castle Wolfenstein did it even earlier (“was ist los, was ist los” and “ach, mein leben!”).

I think they should be upfront with people that when they go to her concert, they’re not hearing her sing live, at least most of the time, and they are not hearing the band play live.

It should be obvious that no singer could do several 3-hour shows a week for more than a year, and not have it affect her voice.

Just check out the Wings of Pegasus YouTube channel, to see where two different concerts in different countries had exactly the same music (vocal and instrumental).

I know several people who spent thousands of dollars to see her in concert. I’m not going to go out of my way to ruin the memory for them. They got the experience they wanted. But I’m also not going to pretend that it was a musical experience.

It would be a good idea to spell it correctly, then:

Atheist

I would recommend using Language Transfer.

It has courses for about 10 languages. All of them are sets of MP3 files, about 10 minutes each. You can download them from soundcloud, listen via YouTube, or install the simple but very effective app.

I think you would be shocked at how natural and effective this system is. I have been using it to learn Spanish as my fifth language, and it is easily the best language acquisition system I have ever used short of living in the target country. It explicitly avoids and discourages memorization.

It’s completely free, but the creator asks for donations to cover his expenses. Believe it or not, one man has created courses for French, Spanish, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili, and recently Japanese.

I think that the Bip was the battery life champion. I checked sometime in the past year, and I think Amazfit watches typically lasted between 1 and 2 weeks.

I’m perfectly happy with my Amazing Bip watch. It keeps track of my steps and sleep, and links to my phone so that it will buzz if I get a call or text.

It’s about 7 years old now, and still gets almost a month of regular use on a single charge.

You may want to check your sources on that. If I remember correctly, his mother knew someone on the board, through her work with the United Way.

That should be Ransom E. Olds, not Olsom Olds

There is so much money involved. I would almost say that there is too much money involved to leave the results up to the athletes.

How much corruption is there that never gets publicized or even discovered?

I don’t know if you have a website, but my $5/month shared web host allows me to set up a git server, and I think many of them are similar.

I was a volunteer teacher in Africa from 1988-91.

I would write letter from my village, and it would take one month to get to my family in Canada. They would write a response, and it would take one month to get back to my village. That was just the reality.

Now the village I lived in has a cell phone tower in the middle of it. I haven’t been back, but I am willing to bet that a lot has changed.

I’m in Malaysia right now, which is a majority Muslim country. Restaurants and convenience stores sell beer and other alcohol, but I have seen signs in the convenience stores covering the front of coolers saying that Muslims cannot buy alcohol.

I’m not sure how strictly that is enforced, most of the store clerks and waiters don’t seem to care.