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I started out not being able to sing at all. Couldn't match the pitch, I just sounded like I was trying to "talk in tune". My voice would get very tired very quickly too.
It took a long time, but the change is huge. I can sing in tune now. I can sing much higher. It sounds pleasant. My voice doesn't get tired.
Expect to take 2 or 3 years to really get somewhere. Singing is strange, you can't really see what other singers or yourself are doing. With the piano you can take a look at your teachers hands, but with singing you have to go on a kinda of exploration into sensations in your body, with the teacher as an experienced guide.
Singing is one of the few skills I would recommend to literally everyone.
Make your Anki cards one at a time. Quality over quantity.
It's very easy to add 10,000 words and translations/definitions into Anki using import tools and scripts. If this works for you, great! But I often see people do this and then a month later feel totally crushed by hundreds of reviews information completely out of context.
Instead, try studying and only make a card when you have an "Aha!" moment. "Oh, that's what that word means" or "Ahh, I see how the past tense works". Ideally, cards should feel a little bit too easy when you make them. It should feel like you're never going to forget the new word that came up 20 times in this chapter of your textbook. Of course, after a week or so your memory will be a bit more fuzzy and the Anki card will be a helpful reminder to prevent forgetting.
A bonus of this method is that now doing Anki reviews is like remembering all your best hits and moments you were really clever. It's the complete opposite of a grind.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/tech-resilience...
It is long, detailed and deals with exactly the situation you describe.
Shotguns are most common. Rifles are rarer but possible with a history of ownership of a shotgun.
But pretty much all magic tricks are like this. From the very simple to the extremely complex. The mechanics of a trick are only a small part of it. The story, presentation, emotional content and humour of a performance are even more important.
It's the difference between ballet and a high-jump. Both are physically impressive feats, but one is so much more than that.
Unfortunately where I live cycling is a mess. Cyclist often ride against the normal flow of traffic and this is so common that it is relatively normalized. Almost every day I'm riding on the correct side of the road and I come face to face with a potential head-on collision. Of course, in this situation it's difficult to know whether to keep left or right.
Cyclists are also extremely unpredictable here. They often dip and dive around traffic and pedestrians so when dealing with them it's very hard to predict their movement.
Knock on effect of this is other road users can't predict my movements as a cyclist even if I follow all the rules. Drivers don't expect me to yield to them. So when I stop at a stop sign they angrily honk their horn and wave me through. Construction workers don't expect me to ride on the road so they ignore me leading to a head-on confrontation with a car or they run out in the middle of traffic to try to stop me from cycling with the normal flow of traffic.
Above all, I implore cyclists to ride a predictably. Pedestrians and other road users don't want a collision. If you ride predictably they can work out where you are going and avoid you.
If you have no idea about who the bicycle is registered to then the police will likely make further investigations.
When I was very young I had piano lessons. My memories are only dim, but I think I enjoyed them. I also gave them up quite quickly. I distinctly remember trying to play a little tune and messing it up again and again. I didn't have the skills to deal with my frustration and anger. I didn't have the perseverance. Perhaps if someone had helped me through this I could have persisted, or perhaps it was just too early for me and I needed some more life experience before I could handle it.
When it comes down to it I think kids need lots of opportunities to try many things, as well as the experience of "going deep" on one thing. It doesn't really matter if it's dance, music, art, programming, languages or whatever. There's always the meta-game of skill acquisition going on. Learning that time, effort, consistent practice, thoughtful reflection are useful is the real goal.
It's also worth remembering that children are unique people with unique personalities. They will all have different challenges and respond to the world around them in different ways.
I try to "live small". My apartment is relatively small. I'm still wearing clothes from high-school. I still the knife, fork and spoon I bought when I moved out on my own. When something breaks I mend it, replace it or turn it into something new. I'm not a hardcore minimalist, far from it. But there is great joy in having enough.
Following this, English has some good examples for words that aren't imitating a sound. (Wishy-washy, zig-zag, tip-top).
In over a decade of living in Japan I've only encountered aggressive begging/panhandling once. Street violence is very rare, muggings too. One week in London and I'll see more than in 10 years in Japan.
Pure anecdote: I was jogging on my regular running route and I saw a wallet on the ground with 5000 yen hanging out of it. It was wet so I picked it up and put on a visible dry spot on a nearby wall. I ran past it the next day and it was still there, same spot, same cash sticking out. Finally on the third day it was gone. Maybe the owner came back for it, maybe it was stolen, maybe it was handed to the police. I don't think visible cash on the street would have lasted so long in most places.
Very short mystery stories that you have to work out yourself. I try to keep it as simple as possible. Originally it was html only but now I use a static site builder and 5 lines of CSS.
Asked by the court barber how he wanted his hair cut, the king replied: "In silence".
I think I first saw it in the book "The Naked Jape".
Can you clarify what you mean by “the fold is the most compact possible, even more compact than Brompton in terms of maximizing the use of space“
The Brompton's folded size is 585mm high x 565mm long x 270mm wide
The Helix is 580mm x 635mm x 230mm.
Yes, Bromptons are expensive. But they ride like a bicycle, have gears, a stiff enough frame, luggage racks etc. There's very little compromise. The fastest I've done on mine is 45 kph and I've ridden 70km in a day. I carry it on and off buses and trains multiple times a day without issue.
In the past I had an A-bike[2]. It's a fun and cute little design but the wheels are absolutely tiny and has no gears. You feel like you're riding a folding contraption rather than a bicycle. The build quality was rather plasticky too. I like the idea of an A-shape with telescoping tubes. It's quite an ingenious fold.
I've also ridden (but not owned) a Pacific CarryMe[3]. The ride experience again suffers for the short wheels and no gears, but it could be useful for some. The fold still leaves you with quite a long package.
I'd love to try the Kwiggle bike. I don't think the strange seat will cause as many problems as people think, but I suspect the overall ride experience to be a bit bouncy and flexy. Maybe it's worth it for the small fold.
For a more out-there design I think the Halbrad/Half-Bike[4] could be quite nice but it never really got past the prototype stage. Under-seat steering is a bit of an adjustment too.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-bike
* There's no silver bullet. If one 'method' was far quicker and easier than all the others then everyone would do it.
* Generally it's a long process. You need to find a way to study and learn that you can do for multiple years.
* A teacher's explanation won't make things that much easier. When looking for a teacher, find one that is fun, exciting and motivating for you.
* Avoid translation as much as possible. The language you are learning will have lots of differences to the language you speak already. Don't get hung up on them.
I think adastra22's comment goes into some good detail about a method to learn a language. Try to have the attitude that you are a detective, investigating what all these different words and phrases are and what they're used for.
Definitely focus on phrases and sentences, not words. Sentences contain a lot more grammar and context.
I read the author as saying "I like playing around with things. I didn't like playing around with 'kiddy' things when I was younger, so I made a simple playful programming language that's not 'kiddy'".
I read the page and thought it was a fun language. I'm not sure I could do a good job of using it to teach a class of young people, but I'm sure there are some out there who would get a kick out of it.
Setting a price up front means you're getting customers who get value out of your service from day one. Money talks, and there's a huge gap between free and $1.
The other option is choosing a business model where these customers never need to pay to be on the marketplace. Maybe you get money from councils? Maybe you negotiate a commission on every signup through you? You and your confounders know about the problem domain so can come up with more ideas.
* Older people can't remember the difficulty of learning their first language. They've been using it comfortably for years.
* Older people have bigger vocabularies so the gap between their first and second language is even larger.
* The discomfort of learning new things is less familiar for older peoples
I disagree with this. Block based languages reduce the amount of text on the screen (less dependent on reading skill), reduce the amount of typing (dexterity and keyboarding skills) and reduce the number of confusing syntax errors (important if the learner has limited patience and emotional control skills).
All of these skills are important and can be learnt given time, but they are not the same as learning programming. The ideas of abstraction, repetition and problem solving are still there in block languages.
If a kid can't grasp BASIC/HTML/Python, they won't be a programmer (with or without Scratch).
We teach mathematics to everyone but don't expect everyone to become a mathematician. There's no need to handle programming education in such an extreme way.