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   SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 17:02:12 JST SuperDicq

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   @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange The best thing you can do in this case is go to WikiVoyage and search for "[language name] Phrasebook".

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     abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 17:02:13 JST abadidea

     People often complain "why is this language-learning app teaching me phrases like 'the radishes are scheming' and not 'may I have the bill'? I have a vacation in this country next week!"

     If you have a vacation in that country next week, google a list of tourist phrases and memorize it by rote. These tend to be non-generalizable fixed phrases of complex, even archaic grammar. If you want to learn the language – which will not happen conclusively by next week – memorably whimsical sentences like "the radishes are scheming" teach you far more about modular, generalizable information you can use to build thousands of different sentences.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 17:03:20 JST SuperDicq

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     @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange These WikiVoyage articles are really good and actually contain only the minimum practical basics you need to know about a language and absolutely nothing else.

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     profdc9 (profdc9@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 21:09:46 JST profdc9

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     @0xabad1dea My hovercraft is full of eels.