Kefla [she/her, they/them]

Two lesbians in a trenchcoat

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Cake day: September 15th, 2021

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  • I lwonder if China’s population is more or less ethnically and culturally homogeneous than that of the USA,

    It comes across as extremely insincere to just pose these questions publicly. If you actually wondered that, you would look it up. What you’re actually doing is covertly implying an answer that you think is true and would never question, without having the spine to actually state that answer yourself because you know that you have no actual facts to back up what you’re suggesting.



  • Also if some random youtuber is blanket demonizing CI,

    I think this is the kind of accusation you shouldn’t make as someone who admitted to not even checking out the YouTuber in question. He’s not “blanket demonizing CI” he’s running an extremely long, intensive experiment to test the claims people make in favor of this method, and the results are not particularly impressive.

    If he just wanted to “blanket demonize” anything he wouldn’t bother dedicating so much of his life to it (it certainly doesn’t make him much money!) he’s doing it because he’s passionate about language learning and wants to understand different methods of learning and their pros and cons.

    CI is, by the way, of course a good component of learning a language. You should be using it. But the idea that it is, on its own, an effective method with no other studying or supplementation strikes me as obviously absurd, as shown by the YouTube series in question.