#talk apps

[ruhua-langblr]

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)

#EDIT: Added a great resource for ESL and African languages that weren't found elsewhere #I do NOT recommend memrise and will talk about it another day but #langblr #duolingo #duo #language learning #language learning apps #mandarinblr #resource #reference

[theriverbeyond]

“I killed wizard’s filth like you all my life, I killed them with guns, and bombs, and knives, and gas, and when I didn’t have any of those I just got in real close and put my thumbs through their fucking eyes. You can flick that little skewer around all you like, boy. I’ll choke you with it.”

#in other news wake is DONE see yall in 2 weeks #commander wake #awake remembrance of these valiant dead #wake cosplay progress tag #gideon nav talking time #<- cosplay tag #fun fact taking pictures of yourself wearing a full face mask AND gloves is not easy. the downsides of living alone #sorry for the phone app editing but my house is absolutely terrible for pics. eggshell ass apartment #also for htnheads. you will notice that i am holding the specific kind of telescoping baton wake uses in the book :3

[ikiprian]

Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School is a popular YouTube series. Tucker Foley is a star student.

Barbara Gordon's Cram School posts free online courses for both coding and computer engineering. Think Crash Course in terms of entertainment, but college lecture in terms of depth. Hundreds of thousands of viewers flock to it— students who missed a class, people looking to add new skills to a resume, even simple hobbyists. It’s a project Barbara’s proud of.

Sometimes, when she wants to relax, she’ll even hop in the comments and spend an afternoon troubleshooting a viewer’s project with them.

User “Fryer-Tuck” has especially interesting ones. Barbara finds herself seeking out his comments, checking in on whatever this crazy kid is making next. An app for collecting GPS pings and assembling them on a map in real-time, an algorithm that connects geographic points to predict something’s movement taking a hundred other variables into account, simplified versions of incredibly complex homemade programs so they can run on incredibly limited CPU’s.

(Barbara wants to buy the kid a PC. It seems he’s got natural talent, but he keeps making reference to a PDA. Talk about 90’s! This guy’s hardware probably predates his birth.)

She chats with him more and more, switching to less public PM threads, and eventually, he opens up. His latest project, though, is not something Barbara has personal experience with.

FT: so if you found, hypothetically, a mysterious glowing substance that affects tech in weird and wacky ways that could totally have potential but might be vaguely sentient/otherworldly…. what would you do and how would you experiment with it. safely, of course. and hypothetically

BG: I’d make sure all my tests were in disposable devices and quarantined programs to keep it from infecting my important stuff. Dare I ask… how weird and wacky is it?

FT: uhhh. theoretically, a person composed of this substance once used it to enter a video game. like physical body, into the computer, onto the screen? moving around and talking and fighting enemies within the game?

FT: its been experimented with before, but not on any tech with a brain. just basic shields and blasters and stuff, its an energy source. also was put in a car once

FT: i wanna see how it affects software, yk? bc i already know it can. mess around and see how far i can push it

BG: […]

FT: … barbara?

BG: Sorry, thinking. Would you mind sharing more details? You said “blasters?”

Honestly. Kid genius with access to some truly wacky materials and even wackier weapons, she needs to start a file on him before he full sends to either hero or villain.

[OR: Tucker is a self-taught hacker, but if he were to credit a teacher, he'd name Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School! He's even caught the attention of Dr. Gordon herself. She's full of sage advice, and with how she preaches the value of a good VPN, he's sure she's not pro-government. Maybe she'll help him as he studies the many applications of ecto-tech!]

#she does end up sending tucker a PC lol #and after she learns he has experience supporting a superhero team maybe pushes his name forward to WEs outreach program for r&d potentials #picks him up by the scruff and says MY coding buddy #also fun fact she had a phd in library science at one point. i like that about her i think we should talk about it a little more #also tucker was making a ghost reporting & tracking app for amity parkers #dpxdc #dcxdp #barbara gordon #tucker foley #prompt #kipwrite

[tacc0yak1]

LILIA NO WATCH OUT HE’S GONNA BARF FIRE-

bro teases his surrogate son for a living

#twst #twisted wonderland #yeah i still have no idea how to tag in this app #malleus draconia #lilia vanrouge #CAN HE PLEASE COME HOME ALREADY GENERAL LILIA PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU #LILIA PLEASE COME HOME IM COPING #tacc0yak1art #update: he come after 100 pulls it was so insane no i didnt spend money idk what ur talking about

[chrollohearttags]

you ever get the feeling that you’re not really liked but just kinda tolerated?…like you don’t really belong anywhere and you’re just kinda always on the outside but you don’t fit in or wtv.

#just me? okay #this prolly my hormones talking anyways #I’ve always hated that corny ass term popular loner but that’s what it feels like #like I’ve always loved my friends and stuff but no matter what I’ve always felt like I wasn’t as close as everybody else #and I’ve never really had like a bestie or anything so I’m just kinda sitting here like 🧍🏾‍♀️ #I literally feel like this with my own family and it’s the weirdest feeling ever #cherry chats 🍒 #this app is a mess #but it is free and therapy is not so ignore my late night depression rant

[violentdelightsandviolentends]

i’m foaming at the MOUTH he was giving us nothing all winter break and now he’s giving us EVERYTHING

it’s the nose man I can’t even describe to you how attractive his goddamn nose is

and the tattoos!! and the curls!! and those big brown eyes!! the moustache!! the facial hair!! he’s a greek god!!

#pics from twitter #murph talks f1 #daniel ricciardo #dr3 #daniel ricciardo 3 #formula one #formula 1 #f1 #vcarb #visa cash app rb #visa cash app racing bulls #red bull racing #danny ric #alpha tauri

[f2version]

yuki i LOVE you

#steph talking nonsense #same #yuki tsunoda #visa cash app rb #f1 #formula 1

[magicaldreamfox1]

i think there are too many posts out there that are like writing is not fun but im gonna do it anyways. so here's my contribution: writing is fun actually

#starting to think some of u actually don't like writing 😦 #sorry but i love writing every evening i sit down and open my little notes app and write my silly little stories #and i have so much fun #sometimes ill be in the trenches naturally but overall im having fun #dreamy talks #writing

[sappho-ism]

Non-lesbians when presented with the challenge of not de-railing lesbian posts made by lesbians for lesbians:

#I swear this app really do just be jumping for any chance to talk over lesbians #lesbian #wlw #lgbtq #lgbt #lesbians #lesbian textpost #nblw #lgbtqia

[vexinglyvague]

For all of five seconds I considered getting Threads, then I remembered why I left Facebook about a decade ago:

Why on earth would a Twitter-clone need my health data, financial info, and other sensitive data? And all of it linked to me? What a scumbag app

#threads #instagram #Twitter #apps #ios apps #vex talking

[mintaikcorpse]

LMAO HE'S ON DEADPOOL'S FREE PASS LIST

#the free pass lost was pre arangsd apparently #just imagining him and his wife sitting down and discussing who and who shouldn't be on the free pass list #like they have the google slides and notes app and everything #spiderman #deadpool #spideypool #wade wilson #peter parker #talking #rambling

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

Found a post in my drafts from early November about how I was beginning to figure out the rules of Wooster English. 33 short stories and 5 novels later I nearly forgot how much trouble I had with the language when I started but it genuinely is like learning an unfamiliar dialect

#it's like a clockwork orange with exact opposite vibes #i recall i couldn't figure out bally from context and had to look it up #i started a wooster glossary in my notes app #now i have to watch myself to talk like a normal person in the 21st century #jeeves and wooster #jeeves books #p. g. wodehouse

[c-rowlesdraws]

so the PC I bought shipped with windows 11 and I was like

well how bad could it be

and folks

it is a fucking mess in here

#i am very glad and grateful and fortunate to have a nice new computer #but christ almightly #an HOUR to try to get my e-mail addresses integrated into the Mail app and one is still bugging out #have to look for app settings in like three different places #godddd #catie talks #computer

[allthefakepeople]

ok this is a super quick moment, basically just in a flash of the trailer, but i can't help but kinda lose it how even in this short second, wille still looks at simon with so much awe no matter what has happened between them up until this point

he's still so surprised by simon being soft with him and i just love that even after all this time he still looks at simon in the same way as when he first saw him

#this gif was made super quick in an app #so i don't even know if it captures what i'm talking about #but his expression in this scene reminds me of simon's “i love you” scene from the end of s2 #young royals #wilmon #yr #young royals s3 #yr s3 #young royals s3 spoilers #yr s3 spoilers #yr analysis #young royals analysis #miels rambles

[bronzetomatoes]

My favourite bits from the mangoball Christmas special 🥳

#look anika's talking! #mcyt #mangoball #soz abt that j have 2 bounce back and forth between the app and mobile web browser to upload >10 images #anika famous moment

[mintypsii]

probably won't finish this but yay screenshot redraw

what are they even gossiping about

#trying to get used to procreate im kinda sad that i can't recreate some brushes from ibis perfectly but sigh we ball!!! #it's been fun tho :3 super cool app i don't regret getting it #it changed my style up a little cuz of the colouring technique but idk i hope it looks ok #USOPP ISNT MEANT TO BE MAD BHKJFD im posting this as a wip but i still hav e the urge to fix things up but i have class in like 5 mins ARGH #he's just very passionately shit talking #or whatever they were doing in the screencap i forgor (it was just sitting in my gallery) #op #one piece #sanji #usopp #boss luffy historical special #edo period #sanuso #usosan #okkk nothing shippy ab this art ik but when i was drawing it i was like hehe boyfriendsss so it counts. TO ME #black leg sanji #vinsmoke sanji #art #mintart #my art