• quixotic120@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      I don’t even care about flirting with women I just want a free app where I can practice speaking my second language with actual people and not some sanitized AI that doesn’t understand context or slang instead of watching cringe youtubers

      Like Duolingo/genki or google translate doesn’t really capture おっす. Duolingo probably doesn’t bother with that kind of informal speech. Google just translates it as “hey”, which isn’t wrong, but it’s not really right either. Even deepl just translates it as yo!, which is much closer but still kind of not really it. It’s more like a sup brah kind of thing. Like a really masculine youthful colloquial greeting I guess is the best way to explain it.

      But not discord, fuck discord

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        10 days ago

        Just have your second language be English. I’m practicing it right now. Has to be the easiest language to learn for the sheer amount of English content there is.

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      10 days ago

      Still not cool to ghost / disappear without even saying “hey thanks, but I’m going off the app”

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          10 days ago

          Why? It is messed up. It costs you nothing to say that and saves the other person weeks of wondering what the hell happened, what they did wrong etc. Ultimately it means you used the other person as a means to an end - getting rid of boredom - instead of actually interacting and treating them like a human. And then you discarded them the second it got boring to you - without even saying a “goodbye”.

          Ghosting is always messed up, no matter the circumstances.