Me: "I want to learn German."
Them: "Why would you do that? Don't bother!"
Me: "Because I spend half my time on the Fediverse clicking on the 'Translate' button."
I can't help it if so many of the awesome accounts I follow are in German. And I want to be able to understand their messages without clicking on 'Translate' 50+ times a day. Plus this way I would understand / could attend ALL the talks at Berlin #FediDay.
I'm putting this here so that people hold me accountable 😅🤗
@_elena@mastodon.social
I don't know if this helps or not but..
German would be my (very distant) 3rd language. I avoid using translation wherever possible to keep my neurons whirring & actually learn more by doing it this way. I'll translate a word here & there when it's unfamiliar to me or I can't figure it out from the context.
Have fun 🙂