Hello my fellow Steemians! I've already posted some things, and I actually joined about two months ago, but I never made a self-introduction post :( Here I am to remedy that!
I'm a professional English teacher from San Diego currently working through italki.com, a language exchange (free) and freelance language teaching site (referral link at no charge to you: https://www.italki.com?ref=1507633x). I'm writing a potentially revolutionary book on easily learning prepositions, and I have several English learning products in the works, as well as a YouTube/DTube channel for teaching English that I hope to launch soon.
As you can tell from the title, I like languages. I speak Spanish at a conversationally fluent level, as well as a bit of German and some basic Japanese, but I plan on being fluent in 6 languages aside from English (Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Mandarin, and Russian), with more possibilities if I ever finish those :p
I also like writing in almost any form - poetry, philosophical essays, stories. I have a degree in Philosophy and have been studying the world's spiritual traditions on and off since 9th grade (currently 28). I have a particular interest in Buddhism, as well as Eastern philosophy in general. I like to think about things like ethics, the nature of reality, and the nature of the self for fun. Politically, I lean heavily in the direction of voluntaryism, but I also have a lot of ideas that many might consider far left. I reconcile this through the ability of technology to liberate humanity (check out https://www.thevenusproject.com/ for an idea of what I mean). Nowhere else to put this, so I'll put it here: I also like (trying) to play the guitar, practicing judo, and watching anime :p
Of course, I wouldn't be here if I didn't like cryptocurrency :D I think we're at the dawn of a new age that will completely change the world for the better. I look forward to meeting all of you!
Haha has someone who's well versed in a variety of languages, would you recommend duolingo?
Short answer: no. If you care for the long version:
It has it's strong points, but personally I think it has too many weaknesses. I worked through the entire Spanish tree shortly after I started teaching myself Spanish and I think it helped, but not much. Pronunciation - or at least exposure to proper, natural pronunciation - is extremely important and useful early on, but Duolingo has those ridiculous machine voices. On top of that, they present you with some pretty ridiculous and sometimes creepy sentences that no one would ever say.
I think the best thing Duolingo has going is the translation part of the site where you work with the community to translate uploaded material. But even then, there's much more to language learning than translating texts, so at the end of the day it's sorely lacking, even as just one resource among many.
bienvenido :)
Muchas gracias :)
welcome jdanielmoore, nice to meet you!
Thanks! Nice to meet you, too :)
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Gracias. Ya te estoy siguiendo :) Perdón si cometo un error cuando te hablo en español. Todavía tengo mucho que aprender jaja
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