twovests

twovests OP wrote

Oh yes definitely! I agree with everything you've said - I've been tutoring for awhile and I do pretty much all this. In fact, I'm kind of offended that you assume I didn't know this.

In all seriousness, I'm just Still Bad at reading people even though I do my best. The big problem is over the internet through message boards like this. "Are you familiar with __?" doesn't work as well when communication is over these large time scales.

And there's other times, like trying to convince someone of something based in math, but that's a whole other bag of bananas.

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twovests OP wrote (edited )

Hearthstone is pretty bad!

I loved YuGiOh and Pokemon as a kid, and Hearthstone let me relive a lot of that. But it's full of things meant to get you addicted and if you don't pay money / spend a lot of time on it, you will lose most of the games you play. At least with physical TCGs, you can make proxy cards and play with friends.

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twovests OP wrote

I started with the Hello Chinese. I started using Memrise (flash cards), Duolingo, and LingoDeer as well. Getting streak on them takes about 20 min a day every day.

They all seem to have different ideas about where to start with learning, so I feel like it's balanced to use several different apps, if that makes sense?

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