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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Learning a European language, especially from a country that had colonised other countries will be useful. French and English, for the most part. Learning a romance language will also help if you were to touch Latin someday

    I’d learn Mandarin next since there’s a lot of speakers and Asia is a fun place. Japanese after that if I have the time. That would be my personal journey if I ever learn any other languages, but we’ll see












  • I have been trying to learn French on and off for 7 years now, and I have learnt nothing. I have come to realise exactly what you said here. However, my interest in a particular brand of philosophy is cryptic enough when translated to English, which means I’ll understand absolutely nothing when in its original French.

    I will be sitting for classes with a personal tutor when I can (one of my goals for next year) to improve my skills in speaking and perhaps listening, alongside actually working on my French with a fixed curriculum. I still have absolutely no idea how people just learn to speak a language without vocabulary; what do they even say? How would I say “My team obliterated their opponents” when watching a football (soccer) match, when I hardly ever use the word anywhere else?

    Would you happen to know any good books on Linux, Networking or Security written in basic French for a neanderthal like myself?

    I love a specific type of French music, love reading what little I can in French, and yet, here I am languishing in misery and beating myself up because I just couldn’t pick up the language. I hate it, but that is the truth.




  • OP guy (centuries old but looks 25, good looking) lives out near the forest, almost at the edge of civilisation. He has built a small house, farms, and because his powers so incredible (give him the most OP of them all; telekinesis, telepathy, understanding of languages and concepts, unlimited mana and skill to manipulate it etc), he lives in harmony with nature.

    One day, he visits the nearby town, and picks up a ragged orphan girl who was being beaten in an alley (don’t ask me how, that’s up to the writer). This is the story of the OP man seeing his “daughter” cross the stages of life he had forgotten about with age, come of age, go through education etc.

    If possible, I’d like some comedy and some romance on the side for OP too. Thanks!