@input.bsky.social
Language learning, programming, Bayesian stats, generally a happy dork.
Daily Spanish practice thread on twitter came out nice today. Not sure I will replicate it here - not seeing clickbaity tweet threads 24-7 is quite a cosey experience.
18.04.2023 21:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks!
18.04.2023 00:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well... Four years and 9 months :D
18.04.2023 00:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Australia! Travelling Latin America.
17.04.2023 23:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All this because I decided to learn Spanish 5 years ago.
4 years in, I meet a kid who has become fluent in 9 months.
I was so jealous of his progress. I couldn't speak at all at this point. How??
He was "talented".
And now I'm like him.
It's not talent.
It's possible for everyone.
My partner and I discovered tonight that "mhm" as a nonverbal affirmation exists in English and Spanish.... is it universal?
I am theorizing immense evolutionary pressure in finding a way to say "yes" while sipping coffee...
