Title says it all. Great, the treat printer made a video that fooled people convincingly at the low low price of a few more burned acres and a few more dried up lakes and a few more tons of carbon dumped into the sky.

Must we repeat that trick until it kills us all? elmofire

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    but because material in english is plentiful and super easy to find, and finding people to practice with is easy.

    Not just material in English in general, but specifically comprehensible input — and not just finding people to practice with in general, but specifically people to practice with in a sort of “limited” setting. Video games can be great for both of these. In a singleplayer game, if you read some English text and you don’t understand it, but you manage to brute force whatever puzzle or objective you were supposed to do, you will probably be able to relate whatever you did to the text you read, and that should give you a better understanding of what it said. On the other hand, if you’re playing a multiplayer game, you can expect what you hear or read from other players to be things related to the game, and the limited scope of what’s appropriate or sensible to talk about in that setting will make what they’re talking about easier to comprehend. This is related to why it’s said that physical team sports can be a great avenue for language learning, too.

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      1 month ago

      any setting where you can talk to people face to face is great for this. the place you’re physically standing in, the gestures, the facial expressions all help a ton.