@grips@deadheat@s I've never noticed any mistakes and I am a pedanticism enjoyer (yes, I notice the errors in my posts, but alas there's no edit feature).
@s Communicating in a second language actually gives me anxiety. I usually ignore it but sometimes I feel it really bad. I can speak my native language in any way I want, but I feel like presuming that I can have conversations with native English speakers when I learned the language mostly by playing video games and watching media in English almost feels like it's disrespectful... Please forgive me for any grammar errors and other mistakes sensei...
@s Wait, you are literally American :backtogab:, please settle this for me sensei.
To complete the sentence "She has a sweet, sexy ________ voice.", which word would you pick: hoarse, raspy, scratchy, or something else? It's your language, you are an authority to decide what is the right choice. :backfromgab:
@deadheat :backfromgab: i don't know, i'm pretty sure they all mean the same thing :backfromgab: you're probably right about raspy, it feels like it has the least negative connotation
@s There's the word hoarse, but that sounds more like for the case when your voice is affected by a cold or something like that. There's also husky, and scratchy, but these sounded to me more negative than raspy. But you understand what I mean, right?
@s her laugh melts my heart, I think it's the soft raspy voice can you use the word raspy as a compliment for a voice in this way or is there a better word?
@deadheat i like her laugh too, it's cute. raspy isn't exactly a compliment, it's like how amelia speaks sometimes, but i personally don't know how i'd describe it either
@deadheat@s Well, the real reason I've been considering this is for Russian, for which I am native, albeit barely as I've lost most of it and I was too young to learn to read or write.
@deadheat@s I never would've guessed you were ESL. So that means that watching media in a foreign language is actually fruitful? I've been wondering about that for a while since it didn't seem to be so for Japanese when I was a weeb, although maybe if you're studying as well then it's a different matter entirely.
@latein@s I think it only worked for me because I did this since I was a child, so I spent a lot of time on it while my brain was still young and fresh. I don't think this approach could replace actually studying though. You do learn the English words, but you are going to use them by recognizing patterns instead of properly learning grammar, which means that what you are actually doing is memorizing and repeating instead of being able to communicate properly with your own words.
>it didn't seem to be so for Japanese when I was a weeb
I think you can learn Japanese words in spoken form with anime, which is useful to notice if the subs or localization is wrong or missing things, but if that's all you are doing to learn Japanese it's going to be just for this limited use.
@deadheat@latein@s those who are needed already know me better my question was about who are the nice russians you're talking about, the only one that comes to mind is iska and even he isn't that nice
@lina@latein@s no, I just don't want to point an edgelord at very nice people that being said, it's ok to not be nice if you don't feel like it, we are here to have fun after all
@not_benis@s@latein@lina@pomstan Swagchen would never call a disgusting tranny a nice person, so on that basis alone you can tell there's a joke or misunderstanding here