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I know a few Argentinians and since I live in Chile I know a lot about what’s going on there. They have a lot of useless ministers for almost everything, at this point the previous government could have easily added the ‘ministry of non-important matters’ Their state manages the education really bad, many Argentinians complain about that, all those things managed by the state work really bad and are fueled by taxes. I agree that Milei’s ideas are crazy, but seeing the options in Argentina, he was the less bad option there.

Imagine a state sucking almost every currency from every citizen just to fuel useless state institutions. I hope Argentina will recover with this change.


Thanks to the damn notifications now I HATE modern phones, I have uninstalled nearly every app from my phone, deleted mail accounts and set some tools to make my phone a normal phone again, nowdays smartphones are just a source of annoying ads. I installed an app (I think the name is minimalist phone) and it has a function to create a “box” for low priority notifications.


It can be useful for basic coding or to answer questions like ‘Is there any way to do X thing in Javascript?’ I were talking about it with some classmates , they said the same. There was one program I was doing on my own with Js & Html (I’m still learning) and for relying to much on GPT without much knowledge I ended up “walking on circles” for 6 Hours without any progress. It is good for giving some information and sometimes finding a bug, but never, never use it as if it were capable of doing everything. It’s a tool, not a programmer.


What are your motivations or goals that make you learn Japanese?
Mine was at the beginning to be able to read Visual Novels, but now is more than that, I like to learn more and there are few sensations like understanding new "symbols" as words.
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Is ChatGPT a reliable tool for learning?
When I mean learning I do not mean translating big sentences or something like that, I mean things like: "Is this japanese sentence correctly written? 雲の日が好きです" In this example it answered: " Yes, the Japanese sentence "雲の日が好きです" is correctly written. It translates to "I like cloudy days" in English. Here's a breakdown of the sentence: - 雲 (くも/kumo): This means "cloud." - の (no): This is a possessive particle that indicates the relationship between "cloud" and "day" in this context. - 日 (ひ/hi): This means "day." - が (ga): This is a subject marker particle that marks "cloudy day" as the subject of the sentence. - 好きです (すきです/suki desu): This means "like" or "to like" and is a polite way of expressing one's preference. The verb 好き (suki) means "to like," and です (desu) is a polite copula used to indicate politeness and formality. Therefore, the sentence "雲の日が好きです" correctly conveys the meaning "I like cloudy days" in Japanese. " Is this correct,do you consider it reliable? Sometimes I also ask some questions like: "What function does 'こと' grammatically fulfill on this sentence? .... "
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The only step of learning Japanese that I consider hard is memorizing Kanji. Using them later becomes easy but what can make the learning complicated is that for example: Let’s say that I don’t know any kanji and I want to learn by reading: "Oh I found this, how do I pronounce it ‘何’ ??? … ): " Learning kanji requires to read the dictionary or taking the info from some source.

Back when I learned English I could learn a word by reading it and understanding the context. “W O R D” was what I say, letters so I could pronounce it. But kanji is different, It requires more "active " study to memorize.

Sometimes I think that kanji is in someway similar to the icons of the Apps on my phone. For example the Icon of WhatsApp, when I see it I know it’s WhatsApp,but that only because I have previously learned that.

Learning kanji is somehow hard but more than difficult it just requires time. Actually I like learning kanjis, the feeling of "strange symbols " becoming words to ny brain is one of the best sensations that I could have experienced in my whole life.


Looking for VNs with ‘formal’ vocab
(Sorry if my english is wrong) Hello, I have been learning japanese on my own for a few months now (Reading Genki, WaniKani, PDFs, etc) . My main goal for now is to reach a good level to use Visual novels (In japanese of course) with Yomichan + Textractor to learn new vocab. I have been reading about this on the internet and many people says that Visual novels often lack normal vocab or they use unusual vocab. Is there any Visual novel with formal vocabulary and that you would recommend? Thanks.
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