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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I’ve been consuming English media for many years. My computer and phone have used English since the 90s. I got used to it, so today, even if I could switch my phone to my native language, I don’t, it sounds strange.

    These days I consume most media in English (US, UK, AU) - movies, tv shows, YouTube, websites, books (paper, audiobooks). I have no trouble understanding content, but I do keep subtitles on out of habit, and that helps when there’s a stronger accent.

    I’ve been using English at work exclusively for more than 10 years, and where I live now, I hang out with an international crowd. We speak English to each other, even though it’s not anyone’s first language most of the time.

    I take notes and journal in English, even privately. I sometimes even think in English.

    I still have an accent and I’m missing some vocabulary and the occasional grammatical rule, but I consider myself fluent in English.


  • No, not yet. He’s still in school, he did decide on an education/career path (no longer robotics, turns out math, physics, and programming are hard), so he’ll be around for a few more years, at least until he’s done with his FOS (we’re in Germany).

    We decided that as long as the kids are in school, they can stay with us. And with rent prices these days…











  • I love reading, but lack the time to do it. I listen to audiobooks when commuting, I would love to get more time to do that. So I recommend that.

    What about a color e-reader with some comics or ebooks? Or watch/listen some classes that fit your interests online? Brandon Sanderson has his creative writing classes for free on YouTube, and there are so many more that might interest you…






  • I’m not saying it should include English, I was just using it for clarification. I think each language / country should be in the native language.

    I only realized the list is a region selector after it was pointed out to me. Maybe this proves my point, I didn’t know what the button I pressed was for :) Having the region/country name in the website language does make sense. Language names however…

    Flags do help, but there are none in this example (mobile or desktop version). Sometimes flags can be confused too (Romania, Moldova, Chad).

    I don’t have a solution, and I’m not the usual ranter, I mostly post in the cooking community :)