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yet another successful day for Team Miraculous. let's wrap it up, gang. what would paris do without us

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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

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meat loaf (controversial)

#cat #meatloaf #loaf

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Sony Announces Animated Feature from Amphibia, Steven Universe Creators

Matt Braly, a storyboard artist from “Gravity Falls” and Sony Animation’s own “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” makes the leap from successful showrunner to feature film director, according to a Braly tweet on Dec. 14, 2023.

The script, written with Adventure Time alum/Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar, references Braly’s “own cultural background and personal history,” Variety reports.

“The film tells the story of a young boy who goes on an emotional journey to a fantastical world of Thai spirits where he hopes to have his illness cured.”

Title and release date to come.

- Courtney ( @harmonicacave)

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Breaking the family curse (being the first to get a diagnosis)

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Congrats! As a Kentuckian, I’m glad to share that Hanshin is not the only one KFC has cursed 😜😜😜

(video and tweet source)

THE HANSHIN TIGERS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE OF THE COLONEL!

For the people who don't know, in 1985, the Hanshin Tigers won their first (and at the time, only) Japan Series victory. Traditionally, they've been hard luck losers, and they're often compared to the Red Sox in the sense of their being overshadowed by the Yomiuri Giants, who, like the Yankees, have won more championships than any other team in their league.

When they won, fans resembling the players on the team were jumping into the Dotonbori Canal in Osaka - the fans would yell out a player's name, and a fan who looked like them would jump in. The problem was when they got to Randy Bass, who none of the Japanese fans looked like. They needed to find something resembling him and selected a statue of Colonel Sanders, who was white and had a beard like Bass, and threw it into the canal.

Colonel Sanders sank underwater, and the Hanshin Tigers did...horribly after that, usually coming in last in the league or close to it, to the point where the team was considered cursed by his presence in the canal. The team made the Japan Series a few times after that in the 2000s and once in the 2010s, but lost each time.

In 2009, the Colonel was located and recovered from the Dotonbori Canal, save for his left hand and his glasses. He's now at a location near Koshien Stadium, where the Tigers play their home games (and where the famed national high school baseball championships are played), and can be viewed there to this day.

Fans were, however, not convinced that they had earned the Colonel's forgiveness, since his hand and glasses were missing. In the image above, he's been given some replacement glasses, but he still lacks a left hand.

This year, Hanshin beat the Orix Buffaloes, a team that plays roughly 20 minutes away by train in Nishinomiya, 4-3 in a seven-game series. The curse is thus considered broken...so the fans did what they do best, and threw a fan dressed like Colonel Sanders into the Dotonbori Canal.

For years, this has been my favorite baseball story, and I'm so happy that I was alive to see it seen all the way through. Congratulations, Hanshin fans!

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Settle a bet.

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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: anime trailer arrives with Netflix release date of Nov. 17

With comic creator Bryan Lee O’Malley as executive producer and the original film’s voice cast on board for the English dialogue, “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” promises a great time. Music by Anamanaguchi highlights the stunning animation by Science SARU, whose bubbly style and dark undertones recently lent itself well to the Japanese animated first season anthology of Star Wars: Visions as well.

- Courtney ( @harmonicacave )

#scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim vs the world #scott pilgrim takes off #anime #animation #Netflix #inspiration #favorite #comics

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Running in the snow

#dog #corgi #snow #funny animals #these are the jokes

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Rip Howl Pendragon, you would’ve loved Korean skincare.

#howl’s moving castle book #howl’s moving castle #howell jenkins #howl pendragon

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not naming names but some of you are genuinely really good people and i hope that you get everything your heart wants and needs

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Recently saw someone complain that the protagonists in the D&D movie are “a band of idiots”

My sibling in Mystra have you fucking played D&D?

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Oh no

#me #adhd #tiktok #video

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We are receiving unconfirmed reports that it is bedtime. Citizens are advised to get into their pajamas and remain on high alert