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- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 1 day ago:
I moved from the US to Portugal and have been taking classes. I can read Portuguese at a basic level and with enough effort write it. However, I cannot understand it when spoken by a Portuguese native speaker. There are a lot of words smushed together that just don’t register in my brain. Oddly, I can understand it when a non native speaker speaks it (I guess, Portuguese with an accent?). I work with people from all around Europe and I can understand, for instance, a Romanian guy speaking Portuguese just fine (though I don’t know any Romanian).
It’s not a hearing problem, it’s just that it sounds so different that my brain isn’t really picking out the separation in words and so I can’t understand it.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 weeks ago:
Tell me, on the street after the second corner you turn on the way to the store, how many trees are there along the sidewalk? What kind of trees are they?
There’s an interesting book called “On Looking” where the author walked around a city block with 11 experts in different fields and saw the world through their eyes. Here’s an article about it: themarginalian.org/…/on-looking-eleven-walks-with…
The world is endlessly interesting, even in the mundane. Even if it’s just keeping an eye out for new street art or thinking about a project or figuring out what I will do this weekend or just listening to my body and feeling the new aches or am old pain going away. There’s often not a need for music for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Uncomfortable news is not like wine. It doesn’t get better with age. Tell them sooner rather than later. If nothing else, it’ll give you more time to work on whatever needs to be worked on afterwards.