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Gadianton wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 1:53 am Not following Ceeboo on this:

Ceeboo wrote: I have seen countless examples of people that have simply stopped talking to other people (in real life, family, friends, social media, etc)

Can you give an example? I'm reading this as stop talking to people altogether. I can't say I've seen this at all.

The news on left and right reports people not talking about politics, families splitting up over politics, or the decline of friendships in men; and I've seen people check out of real life and spend all their time in cyberspace. That's the main thing I've seen is the substitution of online for real life. But seems like you're saying you've got homies who are cutting ties with everyone.

I can think of a couple guys at the top of the ladder in high tech whose lives are their jobs. And then in general, I think people are working longer hours, and with the rise of remote work apps like Slack and Teams, you're interacting with work people constantly at times and done with everyone by the end of the day.

But yeah, sounds like you're talking about something more extreme that I'm not picking up on.

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High Spy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:21 am Fahrvergnugen is an F word about perception.

Love it when you speak French.

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Another movie featuring music by The Talking Heads reminesint of Donny Drako or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

https://discussmormonism.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=157936&p=2870108#p2870108 wrote:
Re: How Good is the MTC at Teaching Foreign Languages?

My two big complaints about how the MTC taught Spanish is that it was most fundamentally based on rote memorization for vocabulary, and then a grammar-theory-first approach to putting sentences together. For example, if I wanted to say, "the book is blue", I'd first have to study lists of vocabulary words that included the words "el", "libro", "ser", and "azul", and would then learn how the English word "to be" can be translated as either the Spanish verb "ser" or "estar" depending on the context, because "to be" actually means two different things. I'd then figure out how to choose "ser" as the correct verb, and then chose one of 42 versions of irregular conjugations based on 6 persons (first, second, third person, by singular or plural) and then one of seven tenses (present, imperfect, preterite, future, subjunctive, imperative, conditional). Once I knew that, I could choose the correct conjugation of ser and would know how to write the word, and would then use the rules on pronunciation they gave to translate the word into sounds, which I would then say. It was a completely unnatural approach--they were teaching us a language as if they were programming a computer.

In contrast, Duolingo …

Has language training improved in Provo since I was there?