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ColleenV

11:14

Today's idiom: "watch one's step" This could mean the character will be a sort of adversary to the women. But given the description of the wives' vicious brutality, it seems like O'Malley is the one who will need to watch his step, instead. (ScreenRant‌)

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11:36

Q: Use of ampersand symbol "&" instead of "and"

I've observed lately the overuse of the ampersand symbol "&" in some posts replacing the word "and". Including some replacements in quoted texts that originally do not use "&". I think that this use is not common in formal English. Is there any style-guide for this site addressing this point? Sh...

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16:07

Q: An OP repeats his/her question after acknowledging an answer

I have noticed users repeating their questions after acknowledging an answer by posting a comment (that can range from agreeing to just neutral-type commenting). The comment repeats almost to a T the same question again. This can be quite annoying. Often, this is accompanied by statements like:...

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userr2684291

18:29

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Hey.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Hello!

userr2684291

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ How you doing?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Meh

You?

userr2684291

I'm alright, can't complain.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Well, I was too lazy to check in for some reason. Didn't really get busier than I already was.

Maybe I was too tired of the topics being discussed in SE

userr2684291

18:37

Yeah, that's all right.

I sometimes just come and vote, but usually find something interesting and then research it a little.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

And guess what, I come back online to world news and I hear some useless kerfuffle about Nike

userr2684291

Wouldn't know.

I don't really read the news. I do, but only in order to read some English. I am in the process of reading a book in English, but sometimes it can get a little daunting.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

What book, if I may ask?

I want to finally start learning German

userr2684291

I'm kinda embarrassed so I won't tell you, hahah. Especially because I've already read it, and yet I keep returning to it for some odd reason.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Why?

Do you plan on moving to Germany?

(Or a German-speaking country, that is. (Preferably Switzerland.))

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Well, 1) It's dominated the world of chemistry, pharmacology and maybe just the whole medical sciences

And 2) Learning a new language is fun!

And 3) I wanna show off. Obviously.

userr2684291

18:47

Okay, great.

Wunderbar, in fact.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Its inflections seem to be close to my Turkish, so that's 4

userr2684291

I wonder if you'd like to try out the course I think would be perfect for beginners. It helped me brush up on my German.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I mean, Italian doesn't push you to learn it and French pronunciation is probably harder than German

@userr2684291 If it's free then sure

userr2684291

I feel, at this point, that I'm advertising the course for them and they should pay me.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Now I'm searching for good self-study stuff.

userr2684291

18:49

It's completely free and beautiful.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

And can you do it at your own pace?

userr2684291

Yes.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

SHOW ME

userr2684291

Okay, just a second.

dw.com/en/learn-german/deutsch-warum-nicht/s-2548 On the right, there are four images, Series 1, 2, 3, and 4. When you click on the first one, you arrive here dw.com/en/learn-german/deutsch-warum-nicht-series-1/s-2549. Notice at the right that there are these appendices with all the grammar, vocabulary, translations, etc. The useful document there is Key to the exercises. When you click on Chapter 1, you get both the audio and the PDF with the lesson thingy.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Thank you!

userr2684291

18:57

You're welcome.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Silently flagging as spam

userr2684291

This was originally a radio course, and each audio is about 13 minutes long. So you need like 30 minutes (if you pause and re-listen, etc.) per lesson, especially if you write down the new vocabulary, etc. It looks like a very gentle course, but I think it's alright.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

It fails to load :( Gotta use VPN.

Which means I'd do it on mobile

BBL

userr2684291

Hm, maybe I could upload a couple of these to Google Drive for you or something.

I say a couple because my upload speed isn't that high.

I'm gonna make some dinner now. See you later.

By the way, I also used these: collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/german-english (German–English dictionary), en.pons.com/translate (German–German); conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-german.html (verb conjugations); linguee.com/english-german, corpora.uni-leipzig.de/de (example sentences); glosbe.com (pretty much the best translation tool (as much as they generally suck), I think, due to the actual translation examples).

Alright, bye for now.

Oh, there's also this, duden.de, but only when you get a good grasp on German.

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