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How to make yourself learn a language when you don't want to

So, I think everyone experienced Language fatigue at some point, where, whatever method you chose, you just can't make yourself do it at certain days. So how do you do it nevertheless? The key is to make it accessible and in your face when you're doing some activity which is relaxing to you so that even when you feel tired, you will kinda do it automatically. Don't force yourself though, this is entirely optional. For example, when I feel fatigue, all I do, is open a Clozemaster window halfway on the screen while having some video or something else on the other half. I don't actually have to do theClozemaster quizzes, but I do it passively while I watch regardless. It isn't particularly hard and I don't force myself to do it, I just do it automatically. It's interesting how a simple trick can make you do something even when you're demotivated in doing it. And it works super well, if a video is 50 minutes for example, then I could complete 2000 reviews.  ...
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The Zen of Language Learning

Now, I am going to propose a quite radical notion and that is that YOU don't learn a language, the language learns itself! What am I talking about? You may be sitting at home and think that the time you spend learning a language is you learning, is you absorbing new information, but that's not quite right. The learning process happens by itself, the only thing that you decide is whether to do it or not. The actual learning is independent from your choice. A language siphons itself into your brain bit by bit, via memory, but can you control memory? No, you can't, what you remember and what you forget is not up to you to decide, it's a process which happens over and over. For proof of that, open the Anki app with top 100 words in a language. Once you go over the first review, did you remember everything the first time? Of course not! It's an iterative process which you cannot control! When you remember something, when you manage to finally absorb it, is unknown to ...

Why Learn a Language for Revolution!

So, why learn a language to read theory as intended? Especially given multiple translations which more or less do the job? Well, reading a piece in its original allows you to discern any hidden meaning along with better understanding the culture of the author. Poetry is especially difficult to translate and should really only be appreciated by the speakers of the original language. Goethe doesn't sound so epic in English as he does in German . Access to another world of research materials, news and information: If you only know English, then you're really limiting yourself in terms of the sort of research that you can do, you practically are limited to Marxists.org , libcom.org or other sites however there exists another world of modern theoreticians, especially from Russia and China that are simply not available to the English speaking audience. Examples of such resources are: http://difangwenge.org/ http://maoflag.cc/portal.php http://redchinacn.net/portal.php http://www.wy...

The Trump Neo-Liberal Twitter Ban

The recent banning of Trump is a good example of the Neo-Liberal adjustment. Twitter and other social media platforms didn't just start to censor now, this was a precedent for some time now already. However now, the new, updated Neo-liberalism is solidified into precedent. Compared with the old version which initially tolerated major figures like Trump, the new alteration will attempt to banish them. The system readjusted itself, even major figures are not allowed on if they are to be disruptive to the system in any way. And while we know that the MAGA mob, even if they realised their ambitions, their revolution would really lead to pretty much the same old just with different faces and maybe extra amendments regarding gun laws that would get scrapped 20 years after anyway. The days of the wild west social internet are over, there was a time where on YouTube, you could access everything and even have your content promoted because it was all about getting views. Don't think that...

How your vote was manufactured

How your vote was manufactured (Neo-liberal adjustments part 1) This article was initially Published on our substack  On January 15th 2021, this is a cross-post of it. The Neo-liberal system is always self-correcting, it has mechanisms in place to do that, to ensure its own survival while also achieving its own aims. If you think that your choices are your own, then you're willingly being ignorant about the power of the system and how it affects you. You didn't choose to vote for Biden because you wanted to but because the system made you choose that. If not by blatant propaganda of ‘lesser-evilism’, then by allowing Biden to be the only alternative choice against Trump. He represents the system as it is after all. So, how does Neo-Liberalism self correct? Whenever tragedies happen, any major political events which go against the established line. The architects of the system analyse the situation and implement corrective procedures to stop that, recently with storming of the ...

We Started a Substack!

Dear Readers of this blog, We started a Substack under the name of New Wave Atlas , it is wholly run and operated by the New Wave Syndicate collective. From now on, we will be writing our articles there and cross-posting them here a few days later, so subscribe on Substack to get to read our future posts as soon as they appear! For this occasion, we started a five part series about 'Neo-Liberal adjustments', it is about how the system and actors within it change our perception of the world for the benefit of capitalism. How we are being played and how the left is stuck with tactics and strategies that are very outdated by modern standards. The system has moved on to new levels of repression, more clever and advanced, and as such, if we want to challenge capitalism effectively, we need to always be the first to use state-of-the-art technology for revolutionary purposes! We cannot just assume that what worked in the past, is always going to work, it won't, these days are ove...