A Regular Person reviews LingQ: Part 1

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD8_Ljcgg60

Zusammenfassung

TLDRDans cette vidéo, Minu partage son expérience avec l'apprentissage des langues, en particulier l'espagnol et le japonais, et son utilisation de l'application Link. Elle exprime ses frustrations face aux problèmes techniques de l'application, notamment la perte de sa série de jours d'apprentissage et les bugs de l'interface utilisateur. Bien qu'elle ait constaté des progrès en espagnol, elle se sent bloquée en japonais. Minu souligne l'importance de rendre l'apprentissage des langues amusant et compare Link à d'autres applications comme Duolingo, qu'elle trouve plus motivante. Malgré certains avantages de Link, comme l'intégration avec YouTube et les histoires courtes, elle conclut que l'application n'est pas suffisamment engageante pour elle.

Mitbringsel

  • 📹 Minu partage son expérience d'apprentissage des langues.
  • 😟 Elle ressent de l'anxiété face à ses compétences linguistiques.
  • 📈 Des progrès notables en espagnol, mais des blocages en japonais.
  • 🛠️ L'application Link présente de nombreux bugs et problèmes techniques.
  • 💔 La perte de sa série de jours d'apprentissage a été frustrante.
  • 🎮 Minu trouve Link peu amusant par rapport à d'autres applications.
  • 📚 Les histoires courtes de Link sont un bon outil d'apprentissage.
  • 🤝 L'intégration avec YouTube est un point positif.
  • 📉 La motivation est essentielle pour l'apprentissage des langues.
  • 🔄 Minu souhaite une approche plus ludique et engageante.

Zeitleiste

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Dans cette vidéo, Minu partage ses réflexions sur la création de contenu et ses défis en tant que créateur de vidéos. Elle exprime son désir de produire plus de contenu, mais souligne les limitations de son emploi du temps et de ses ressources, ce qui l'oblige à travailler seule sur ses projets.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Minu aborde son expérience d'apprentissage des langues, en particulier l'espagnol et le japonais. Elle mentionne ses progrès en espagnol, mais exprime sa frustration face à son niveau intermédiaire stagnant en japonais. Elle partage une anecdote sur une interaction en espagnol qui a provoqué de l'anxiété, illustrant ses luttes avec la communication verbale.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Elle discute de l'application Link, qu'elle a utilisée pendant trois ans, et de ses problèmes avec les bugs de l'application qui ont entraîné la perte de sa série de jours d'apprentissage. Minu explique comment ces problèmes l'ont frustrée et l'ont poussée à contacter le service client pour récupérer ses pièces de monnaie perdues.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Minu énumère les avantages de l'application Link, notamment sa compatibilité avec YouTube et ses mini-histoires qui aident à l'apprentissage des langues. Elle note également des améliorations dans la gestion des kanjis, mais souligne que l'application n'est pas amusante à utiliser, ce qui nuit à sa motivation.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:30:00

    Enfin, elle aborde les inconvénients de l'application, notamment son interface utilisateur boguée et le manque de plaisir dans l'apprentissage. Minu conclut en exprimant son désir de trouver une méthode d'apprentissage des langues qui lui convienne mieux, tout en reconnaissant que l'application Link a ses mérites.

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Video-Fragen und Antworten

  • Quels sont les principaux problèmes rencontrés avec l'application Link ?

    Les utilisateurs signalent des bugs, des pertes de série de jours d'apprentissage et une interface utilisateur peu intuitive.

  • Comment Minu évalue-t-elle ses progrès en espagnol et en japonais ?

    Minu se sent plus à l'aise en espagnol, tandis qu'elle éprouve des difficultés à progresser en japonais.

  • Quels sont les avantages de l'application Link selon Minu ?

    L'application fonctionne bien avec YouTube et propose des histoires courtes pour aider à l'apprentissage.

  • Pourquoi Minu a-t-elle décidé d'arrêter d'utiliser Link ?

    Elle a trouvé l'application peu amusante et frustrante en raison des problèmes techniques.

  • Comment Minu compare-t-elle Link à d'autres applications comme Duolingo ?

    Elle trouve Duolingo plus ludique et motivant par rapport à Link.

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    I'll rather keep it real with you
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    hey guys it's me minu back with another
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    video I'm gonna try to make this video
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    this is the only time I've made a video
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    that has been scripted where I wrote
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    down the things I want to say
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    um honestly like I have so many
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    video ideas and like there's just so
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    many things that I would love to do on
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    this channel that I just can't do
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    um as one person with inconsistent
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    capacity it's like as I like to say
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    um most I can commit to is a video a
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    week though I would love to make so many
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    more videos but I would need help if I
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    was going to do all of that
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    um and I just don't have the the base to
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    to to be able to bring somebody else in
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    I have to do this all by myself man all
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    that all the ideas the recording the
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    editing and while it may come easy to
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    some people or they may be in a
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    situation where they can afford to do
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    that all day long and and pump out great
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    content I'm not in that situation I have
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    to work a lot and um adults a lot a lot
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    so what I want to talk to talk about
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    today I've been meaning to talk about
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    for a few weeks now
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    um I don't really make videos on this
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    channel about language learning because
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    I have a ridiculous amount of anxiety
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    around my abilities in terms of language
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    learning
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    um I will say now I feel like I've done
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    a lot better
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    um with my Spanish like my my reading
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    and writing in terms of Spanish has
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    gotten a lot better
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    um and I would say in terms of Japanese
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    I'm still at the level I'm at this this
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    weird intermediate level that I've been
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    unable to get past for like the last few
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    years unfortunately
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    um I am on uh hello talk and I am
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    talking to Japanese people who I'm able
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    to communicate with them and they
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    understand me and they think that I do a
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    great job so that makes me happy
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    um but if you want me to stay here and
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    talk to you I will
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    Go mute real fast this actually happened
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    to me when I was in Mexico and I met my
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    friend's grandmother and she immediately
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    started talking to me in Spanish and
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    talking really really fast and I
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    immediately just went completely mute
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    like I just froze up it was just like
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    and just like doing that and then she
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    was like tell me oh you're so beautiful
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    and I'm just like
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    and my friend
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    uh and I think at some point I said like
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    thank you or something I managed to get
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    that out and my friend was like oh
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    that's so great you took a compliment
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    and I was like yeah I was so like my
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    body like locked up in that moment it
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    was so much
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    um and so that tends to happen to me
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    like I have the the thoughts in my head
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    when I'm trying to speak to people and
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    it don't come out but in terms of like
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    reading and writing I do very well
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    um something that I struggle with in
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    Japanese and this isn't I don't even
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    know if anyone follows me who speaks
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    Japanese but something I struggle with
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    is like
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    more complicated sentences so something
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    like
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    um the fact that you think I'm a great
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    cook makes me happy
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    saying something like that in Japanese
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    is real hard for me
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    um and and it's like a sentence nestled
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    in a sentence and it's like I just I've
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    been stuck on that level for so long
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    it's very frustrating and I have a hard
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    time getting over it but anyway that's
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    not what I want to talk about
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    or it is what I want to talk about I
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    don't know what I want to talk about in
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    this video was
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    um the language learning app link made
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    by Steve Kaufman
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    because I've been someone who had been
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    pushing Link in my language learning
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    circles for a while I was everybody was
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    on this mochi mochi [ __ ] I was telling
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    them to go download link and I was
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    telling them to even pay for link like I
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    was a big proponent of it for so long
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    and I had like a yearly subscription and
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    everything
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    um
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    and I just fell off
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    and I wanted to talk about it so
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    um I've had link for how many years have
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    I had link
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    probably about three years now
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    um and I only have a 222 day streak
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    while I had one
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    um because I would constantly lose my
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    streak due to glitches in the app
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    sometimes I could sneak and get back get
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    it back through to through glitches in
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    the app
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    um so I would say at the time that I
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    wrote down what I want to say I hit 222
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    again
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    um app glitched out next thing I know is
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    like oh you lost your streak
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    and so many times has this happened
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    before that I used up all of my coins
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    that I had gotten over the three years
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    of daily you know Japanese practice I
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    used up all my coins and
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    I was like oh this is this is it I can't
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    get another streak and I emailed
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    um well no the last time I lost my
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    streak I used the last of my coins and I
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    emailed them saying like hey like I keep
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    losing my streak because of these app
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    glitches could you at least give me my
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    coins back because it could cost like
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    what how many coins is it
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    let me let me pull up my list real quick
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    hold on it takes 500 coins to get your
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    streak back and if you do like the
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    lowest amount to get your streak it'd be
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    like 50 coins so you get like 50 coins a
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    day so if you're doing the lowest amount
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    getting 50 coins a day they take you 100
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    days
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    to get enough coins to repair your
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    streak for one one day you know what I
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    mean that's a lot that's a lot and it's
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    very imbalanced and it's very
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    frustrating so I was like I you know can
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    you give me my coins back and I got a
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    response saying no we can't give you
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    your coins back but next time you lose
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    your streak just let us know we'll give
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    it you'll give you the streak back
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    didn't know that okay
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    so you know best Forest you know some
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    weeks later it happens again I say hey
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    can you repair my streak they're like
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    yep cool
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    um a few days later happens again and I
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    was just like oh this is it I'm done
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    there's nothing more I can do I'm so
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    sick of this like I've made it to almost
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    a 500 day streak before
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    um and then lost it because I ran out of
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    coins and I had to start all over again
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    um because of glitches in the app where
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    it'll say that you have have reached
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    your streak when really you haven't
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    um or it'll say you haven't reached your
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    streak when you have it was very very
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    inconsistent and um it was very
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    frustrating so I made it to 222 days
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    before I was like oh I'm done there's
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    nothing more I can do
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    um and that's when I wrote out
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    everything for this video and then after
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    I wrote everything for this video I went
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    to the website on my computer and
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    surprise surprise my computer the
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    computer version of Link suddenly was
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    like you do have enough coins for this
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    and so I repaired my streak I went again
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    for another 40 days or so got to 262
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    days lost my streak and was like you
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    know what
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    you can have it
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    um
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    so in an effort to try to stay on track
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    for this video because I'm very bad at
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    doing that I have some lists of some
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    things that I wanted to go over
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    um some
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    Pros some cons you know I'm going to
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    talk about customer service talk about
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    UI I'm talking about all of this stuff
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    and um I will say though just overall
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    losing my streak made me feel free
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    so
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    if that tells you anything
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    here we go um so some pros I want to get
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    and I read it on my phone okay some pros
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    that I want to bring up is that link
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    does work really well with YouTube you
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    know downloading YouTube videos
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    important to captions works really well
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    I've been able to download some
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    YouTubers
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    um that I like and you know follow along
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    with their stories and everything like
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    that listening to the video and all that
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    stuff that's a really good thing
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    um I like the many stories the mini
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    stories take you through what is
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    supposed to be the most common words in
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    the language you know so you start off
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    with you know
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    small conversations like hello who are
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    you
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    um you go up to things like what time it
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    is and then you eventually get to things
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    like
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    um so and so had an important business
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    meeting she's hoping that this
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    presentation will get her the promotion
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    that she's been looking for she goes to
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    tell her boss about it and he gives her
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    words of advice it's just because it
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    gets really complicated but it's good
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    that it's that those are already
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    available to you to take you through
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    it's like its own course right
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    um I will say that I originally went
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    through it with Japanese until I got to
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    that point where my brain didn't want to
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    function anymore I went through it again
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    with Spanish
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    um and I felt that it helped me really
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    grasp the language a lot faster going
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    through those many stories so I will say
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    that that is a huge Pro that I do
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    appreciate about the app
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    um
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    another thing that I would say the app
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    has gotten much better at is kanji on
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    the Japanese side when I first started
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    using link a few years ago the kanji was
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    not it was not making any sense so there
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    was a lot of things where by the time I
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    started using link I was already at this
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    like intermediate level so there was a
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    lot of things that I was going through
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    where
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    it was separating the actual word the
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    word in hiragana from the kanji work
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    and it was very confusing and there
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    wasn't a lot of kanji because the app
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    just did not do well with understanding
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    kanji it will tell you like it'll give
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    you one reading of the kanji but the
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    story is telling is really supposed to
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    use the other reading of the kanji
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    um when you try to do a test I I would
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    have to test myself on kanji from a
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    specific sentence within that sentence
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    it would be right but then the second I
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    pressed the word or it tested me on the
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    word
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    it would be the other version
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    and it would be very confusing and so
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    when I would have these tests where you
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    have to figure out like what sound this
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    word is making or like you would have to
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    hear you have to listen to the sound
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    you listen to the word and then you have
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    to choose the appropriate kanji for that
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    word it would always throw me off
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    because the way that I learned that
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    kanji was with the other reading of the
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    word
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    so that was very very frustrating and
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    then there was just a lot of areas where
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    they should have used kanji but they
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    just chose not to and it just made it
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    hard for me
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    but I will say at the point that link is
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    now it does way way better in terms of
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    kanji there's a lot more kanji into many
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    stories
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    um and you get the multiple obviously
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    you get the multiple readings when you
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    save the kanji
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    um versus if you were just saving the
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    hiragana if you save the kanji you see
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    the multiple readings of it and that's
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    very helpful when you're studying
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    because you can see both and you can
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    study both at the same time so I will
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    say that it has come a long way in that
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    and I appreciate that it makes learning
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    Japanese better more efficient
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    um
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    my other thing is that the customer
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    service is very responsive I they always
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    respond to my emails in a timely manner
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    it says zorin I'm not sure if it's
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    actually zorin or not but that's like
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    the name that's on the emails but they
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    are very very fast it's I've not had a
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    situation where I've emailed them and
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    I've had to follow up because I didn't
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    hear anything they're very responsive
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    um I will say I think that I was a
  • 00:11:43
    little upset about the whole coins thing
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    but the fact that they were still able
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    to you know
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    give my streak back I stay I still think
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    that was good and you know it took like
  • 00:11:53
    so many days between those emails he
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    could have came back and been like no
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    you don't get a streak what are you
  • 00:11:58
    talking about like in other companies
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    but he was like yep here's your streak
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    back so very very responsive in terms of
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    customer service when you're having
  • 00:12:06
    issues okay that was all my Pros
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    um
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    so cons
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    is one of the first cons I put is that
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    it's just not fun
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    it's just not fun like I don't enjoy
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    using the app
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    either on my phone or on the desktop
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    there's no version of it for me that is
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    fun to use
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    um for a good comparison I am almost at
  • 00:12:34
    900 day streak on Duolingo and I know we
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    got a lot to say about Duolingo in terms
  • 00:12:40
    of Japanese yes it is not that good
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    um but I've been using it for Spanish
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    and it's been very very helpful for me
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    and I've been learning a lot
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    um and it's very gamified right it feels
  • 00:12:50
    good to go and get that streak
  • 00:12:53
    um link doesn't link is not fun
  • 00:12:56
    um
  • 00:12:58
    I don't I don't feel like opening up the
  • 00:13:00
    app uh to do anything I don't feel
  • 00:13:03
    incentivized to you know go through the
  • 00:13:07
    flash cards
  • 00:13:08
    um or anything like that I just I feel
  • 00:13:10
    like I had to force myself to open the
  • 00:13:12
    app all the time I felt like I even
  • 00:13:14
    gotten to a point where I was only using
  • 00:13:17
    link
  • 00:13:19
    because
  • 00:13:20
    I was trying to keep my streak in
  • 00:13:22
    Duolingo I was trying to keep my streak
  • 00:13:23
    in link but instead of actually spending
  • 00:13:25
    the time and link to study things I
  • 00:13:27
    would just like play
  • 00:13:30
    a podcast or something through it and
  • 00:13:33
    get my coins that way and and that's
  • 00:13:35
    another thing about the coins being
  • 00:13:36
    inconsistent
  • 00:13:37
    um
  • 00:13:38
    I'm gonna get to that point anyway I'm
  • 00:13:39
    gonna get to point in a second but yeah
  • 00:13:42
    like Steve talks about a lot like how
  • 00:13:43
    language learning should be fun but the
  • 00:13:45
    app itself is not fun
  • 00:13:47
    and it's just it's nothing motivating me
  • 00:13:50
    to want to open that app since I've
  • 00:13:52
    decided to stop using it after I lost my
  • 00:13:54
    streak last I thought to myself because
  • 00:13:56
    I paid for a year
  • 00:13:58
    so I have it until March I thought okay
  • 00:14:01
    well now that I know that it's about to
  • 00:14:03
    go it's not going to renew maybe I'll
  • 00:14:05
    feel incentivized to go back into the
  • 00:14:06
    app I went back to the app and I
  • 00:14:08
    immediately posted out I was like I
  • 00:14:09
    don't feel like it
  • 00:14:11
    and it's not that I don't feel like
  • 00:14:12
    studying the language I do a lot of
  • 00:14:14
    things in Japanese I watch movies I
  • 00:14:16
    watch
  • 00:14:17
    um I have my VPN set to Japan so I get a
  • 00:14:19
    lot of Japanese commercials I talk to
  • 00:14:21
    Japanese people I listen to Japanese
  • 00:14:23
    music
  • 00:14:25
    um I have a Japanese TV app that I watch
  • 00:14:27
    TV on with no subtitles with all the
  • 00:14:29
    stuff I watch has no subtitles but
  • 00:14:32
    I do a lot of stuff in Japanese it's not
  • 00:14:34
    that I'm not motivated to learn a
  • 00:14:36
    language anymore it's just that this app
  • 00:14:37
    is not fun
  • 00:14:39
    um
  • 00:14:39
    the other thing is the
  • 00:14:41
    the UI is buggy is very buggy
  • 00:14:45
    um it's hard to know like what's going
  • 00:14:46
    on like I mentioned like there was
  • 00:14:48
    glitches that would make it seem like I
  • 00:14:50
    met my goal for the day and then the
  • 00:14:53
    next day find out that I didn't have a I
  • 00:14:54
    didn't meet my streak I would get
  • 00:14:56
    notifications that were inconsistent and
  • 00:14:58
    I had to complain about this a couple
  • 00:14:59
    times to customer service because
  • 00:15:02
    I had it set up to where I would receive
  • 00:15:04
    notifications reminding me to go in and
  • 00:15:07
    like study Japanese and get my streak
  • 00:15:09
    and those notifications would never come
  • 00:15:11
    and we have to fix that I had issues
  • 00:15:15
    where I would get notifications on my
  • 00:15:17
    phone that were just lines of code
  • 00:15:20
    and not actual messages
  • 00:15:23
    and that was really weird I didn't know
  • 00:15:25
    what had broken but it was a consistent
  • 00:15:27
    thing it wasn't like just this happened
  • 00:15:29
    this month it was a consistent thing
  • 00:15:30
    that happened over months I would just
  • 00:15:32
    randomly get notifications from link
  • 00:15:34
    that were broken lines of code another
  • 00:15:35
    thing that I would get issues with would
  • 00:15:37
    be
  • 00:15:38
    when I'm listening to a podcast through
  • 00:15:40
    link and I would pause it or it would
  • 00:15:43
    end on its own like it'll run out of
  • 00:15:44
    time and the app would not let me remove
  • 00:15:48
    the notification like I would have to
  • 00:15:50
    hard reset my entire my heart reset I
  • 00:15:53
    have to reset my phone in order to make
  • 00:15:55
    the notification go away no amount of
  • 00:15:57
    opening and closing the app or trying to
  • 00:15:58
    like force stop the app could help
  • 00:16:01
    or stop it from doing that like I had to
  • 00:16:05
    reset my phone and then come back to try
  • 00:16:07
    and get it out of my thing
  • 00:16:09
    um and it was frustrating because it'll
  • 00:16:11
    be it'll look like I'm like supposed to
  • 00:16:12
    be listening to something and nothing's
  • 00:16:14
    playing
  • 00:16:16
    like the link player would just be there
  • 00:16:19
    and it wouldn't go away and it was very
  • 00:16:21
    frustrating
  • 00:16:23
    um another part about the UI being buggy
  • 00:16:25
    that I mentioned earlier was the first
  • 00:16:27
    time it was like you can't repair your
  • 00:16:29
    streak you don't have enough coins your
  • 00:16:31
    your streak is done when I went on to
  • 00:16:34
    the desktop version of Link suddenly I
  • 00:16:36
    had enough coins
  • 00:16:38
    to repair my streak why why is there a
  • 00:16:41
    difference there I don't understand
  • 00:16:44
    um
  • 00:16:46
    another thing
  • 00:16:48
    no wait is it 500 coins is 5 000 coins
  • 00:16:53
    oh hold on
  • 00:16:56
    I'm trying to look on the link website
  • 00:16:57
    and it's taking forever to load
  • 00:17:00
    um I just see people recording errors
  • 00:17:04
    why did the link app open I don't want
  • 00:17:06
    the link app to open okay so let me
  • 00:17:09
    rephrase this because I was looking at
  • 00:17:12
    my thing
  • 00:17:13
    and it's not 500 coins you need 5 000
  • 00:17:19
    coins to repair your streak so if you're
  • 00:17:22
    doing 50 if you're getting 50 coins a
  • 00:17:25
    day at the lowest amount
  • 00:17:27
    5 000 divided by 50 you have to meet
  • 00:17:30
    your streak for 100 days yeah that makes
  • 00:17:31
    sense of what I was saying earlier but
  • 00:17:32
    it's actually five thousand my bad
  • 00:17:34
    that's a lot of [ __ ] coins
  • 00:17:36
    to have to get to repair your streak for
  • 00:17:39
    one day
  • 00:17:40
    one day and it's not something that's
  • 00:17:43
    breeding me to be like that's it's not
  • 00:17:45
    priming me to be like oh I have to be
  • 00:17:47
    very consistent and I have to stay on it
  • 00:17:49
    because if I don't I'm gonna have this
  • 00:17:51
    huge punishment it just feels more like
  • 00:17:53
    a punishment for no reason
  • 00:17:56
    like it feels like when you get in
  • 00:17:59
    trouble and your parent whoops you
  • 00:18:02
    was it really proportional to what you
  • 00:18:04
    did or no you can't really say that at
  • 00:18:07
    this point like oh my God I spilled some
  • 00:18:09
    mustard and I got a whooping now it's
  • 00:18:10
    all the same it just doesn't feel like
  • 00:18:12
    motivating to get something that is that
  • 00:18:16
    that's high like I can understand if it
  • 00:18:20
    was 500 maybe even 500 would be like
  • 00:18:23
    what 10 days to get one day that makes a
  • 00:18:26
    lot more sense to me than 5 000. that's
  • 00:18:30
    so many coins
  • 00:18:32
    um that you have to either pay money to
  • 00:18:34
    get or you have to spend time on the app
  • 00:18:36
    to get yep so looking back at the amount
  • 00:18:39
    of coins that I gathered just from like
  • 00:18:41
    using the app for years consistently
  • 00:18:43
    like I said I almost got to a 500-day
  • 00:18:44
    streak so I was getting a lot of coins
  • 00:18:46
    and I wasn't limiting it to 50. I was
  • 00:18:48
    going 100 200 whatever
  • 00:18:50
    I lost like 20 000 coins
  • 00:18:54
    having to repair streaks now sometimes
  • 00:18:58
    it was my fault sometimes I forgot one
  • 00:19:00
    day and then I had to repair the streak
  • 00:19:01
    I and I'll take responsibility but there
  • 00:19:03
    were several times where the only reason
  • 00:19:05
    I lost my streak was because the app
  • 00:19:07
    glitched and it told me that I had met
  • 00:19:10
    my daily goal I had the little the
  • 00:19:12
    little fire thing on there and it was
  • 00:19:14
    like you got it you did it you met your
  • 00:19:16
    goal and then I come in the next day and
  • 00:19:18
    it was like actually you only had 45
  • 00:19:19
    coins
  • 00:19:21
    Street gone
  • 00:19:27
    and it's not like I knew anywhere that I
  • 00:19:29
    could just go and complain and get them
  • 00:19:31
    to repair the street like no I
  • 00:19:32
    consistently went through
  • 00:19:35
    thousands of coins every single time
  • 00:19:37
    until I got to the point where there
  • 00:19:39
    were no more coins to spin before I
  • 00:19:41
    decided to complain and say this is a
  • 00:19:44
    issue in your app and it wasn't a we're
  • 00:19:47
    aware of the issue and we're fixing it
  • 00:19:48
    it was more so we can't give you your
  • 00:19:49
    coins back but um next time you lose
  • 00:19:52
    your streak we'll give you the streak
  • 00:19:53
    back so
  • 00:19:55
    I was not very happy about that
  • 00:19:58
    it took me a very long time like I could
  • 00:20:01
    never find out how to actually see the
  • 00:20:03
    amount of coins that I had at a given
  • 00:20:05
    time I was on a desktop I was on the
  • 00:20:07
    phone I was reading the forums and what
  • 00:20:10
    link was guiding me to do to see how
  • 00:20:12
    many coins I had did not work now I
  • 00:20:15
    could see how many coins I've gotten
  • 00:20:16
    over the period
  • 00:20:18
    like over the year the three years that
  • 00:20:21
    I was on the app I could see how many
  • 00:20:22
    coins I've earned but I could not see
  • 00:20:24
    how many coins I had because at this
  • 00:20:26
    point I spent 20 000 coins I had no idea
  • 00:20:30
    how many coins I actually had left
  • 00:20:32
    and if I could afford to even miss
  • 00:20:34
    another day because what they were
  • 00:20:36
    telling me to do to view how many coins
  • 00:20:38
    I had I could never find it to this day
  • 00:20:41
    I've not been able to go into Link's
  • 00:20:44
    website and see how many coins I have to
  • 00:20:47
    spend on anything I just know that I
  • 00:20:50
    have coins Somewhere Out There In The
  • 00:20:52
    Ether
  • 00:20:53
    um well
  • 00:20:54
    not anymore I just know I have less than
  • 00:20:56
    five thousand coins at this point
  • 00:20:57
    because I couldn't repair my streak
  • 00:20:59
    um yeah and then that was also a lot of
  • 00:21:02
    times where the website would just
  • 00:21:04
    glitch out on me even on a desktop so
  • 00:21:06
    there'll be times when I'd be like
  • 00:21:08
    trying to view the coin the little coin
  • 00:21:10
    graph or whatever and it would just
  • 00:21:11
    glitch in the page would just never load
  • 00:21:13
    and I would try it on multiple different
  • 00:21:16
    like I do on my phone I do it on
  • 00:21:17
    different browsers the page just went
  • 00:21:18
    load
  • 00:21:20
    or the page will load and part of it
  • 00:21:21
    wouldn't load like the script on the
  • 00:21:23
    page was like janky somehow
  • 00:21:26
    um oh let me drink some water because
  • 00:21:28
    this apartment
  • 00:21:29
    really pissed me off
  • 00:21:32
    this part really got me that made me mad
  • 00:21:35
    your streak only applies to one language
  • 00:21:38
    now when I'm gonna do a lingo
  • 00:21:41
    and I don't know it could have changed
  • 00:21:42
    in the past several weeks if there was
  • 00:21:44
    another update as of this time like it
  • 00:21:46
    was the five point it was the most
  • 00:21:48
    recent update that Steve had talked
  • 00:21:50
    about on his channel but they could have
  • 00:21:52
    fixed it but at the time that I could
  • 00:21:55
    not do it anymore
  • 00:21:57
    after three years your streak only
  • 00:21:59
    applies to one language so when I
  • 00:22:01
    decided to start learning Spanish a
  • 00:22:03
    couple years ago I could get a streak in
  • 00:22:05
    Spanish and I would lose my streak in
  • 00:22:07
    Japanese so I had to do Spanish and
  • 00:22:09
    Japanese and I know some of you would be
  • 00:22:11
    like but don't that motivate you to
  • 00:22:12
    study bro no
  • 00:22:14
    no it don't
  • 00:22:17
    people and I'm telling you this because
  • 00:22:18
    like we're I'm a regular person there's
  • 00:22:20
    do you know I know there's the polygots
  • 00:22:22
    out there those people have a special
  • 00:22:24
    circumstance experience brain that any
  • 00:22:28
    of these apps is going to work for them
  • 00:22:29
    no matter what a lot of the things about
  • 00:22:31
    these polyglots that
  • 00:22:33
    it's not like regular people they know
  • 00:22:35
    the exact study method that works for
  • 00:22:37
    them they know the exact amount of
  • 00:22:38
    motivation that works for them they know
  • 00:22:39
    what they need to do in order to learn a
  • 00:22:41
    language because they've done it
  • 00:22:42
    multiple times but when you're a regular
  • 00:22:44
    Joe Schmo
  • 00:22:45
    and you're trying to learn a language
  • 00:22:47
    maybe it's the first second language
  • 00:22:49
    that you're trying to learn you don't
  • 00:22:51
    know that you don't have those tips so
  • 00:22:52
    you're relying on these apps we're
  • 00:22:54
    paying money to these apps to help us
  • 00:22:57
    get to where we need trying all these
  • 00:22:59
    different types of language learning
  • 00:23:00
    methods like you see if you follow Steve
  • 00:23:02
    on YouTube he's interviewed multiple
  • 00:23:04
    polyglots and almost all of them have a
  • 00:23:06
    different way to say this is the best
  • 00:23:09
    way to study a language the almost all
  • 00:23:11
    of them disagree about it because they
  • 00:23:12
    know what works for them specifically
  • 00:23:15
    and what works for them specifically
  • 00:23:17
    does not work for everybody it just
  • 00:23:19
    works for people who have who are like
  • 00:23:20
    them and a lot of people don't
  • 00:23:22
    understand that and a lot of these
  • 00:23:24
    polyglots don't tell you that but they
  • 00:23:26
    just know what's the appropriate study
  • 00:23:27
    method for them
  • 00:23:29
    maybe someone with ADHD needs a
  • 00:23:31
    different study method maybe someone
  • 00:23:33
    with autism needs a different study
  • 00:23:35
    method maybe someone with dyslexia needs
  • 00:23:38
    a different study method but a lot of
  • 00:23:40
    the polyglots say this is the number one
  • 00:23:42
    best way to learn a language that's not
  • 00:23:44
    true this way Link's way is is Steve's
  • 00:23:48
    way and Steve is already someone who
  • 00:23:51
    speaks multiple languages he didn't
  • 00:23:53
    learn his first second language from
  • 00:23:56
    link he created Link at a later date
  • 00:23:58
    following the things that he found has
  • 00:24:00
    been helpful for him which is reading a
  • 00:24:02
    bunch of books in the language and don't
  • 00:24:04
    get me wrong I also love reading a bunch
  • 00:24:06
    of books in the language and I feel like
  • 00:24:08
    link had a lot of things that were
  • 00:24:10
    promising about it but there's just so
  • 00:24:12
    many things
  • 00:24:14
    about the app itself that makes this not
  • 00:24:18
    work for me
  • 00:24:20
    and if it works for you that's great it
  • 00:24:22
    worked for me at a time
  • 00:24:24
    where I was in I was trying to take a
  • 00:24:26
    class and I was about to go to Japan and
  • 00:24:29
    I was trying my best to get as much in
  • 00:24:31
    my brain as possible in that moment it
  • 00:24:34
    worked in that moment and that's why I
  • 00:24:35
    was always telling people that this is a
  • 00:24:37
    great app to use
  • 00:24:39
    um but it's not working anymore outside
  • 00:24:42
    of that moment it's not been working and
  • 00:24:43
    it's been a struggle with me to use the
  • 00:24:46
    app
  • 00:24:47
    um especially when I'm trying to get
  • 00:24:49
    some type of satisfaction from using the
  • 00:24:51
    app and I just went and I just put in
  • 00:24:53
    you know I just did several mini stories
  • 00:24:55
    in Spanish my brains all primed for
  • 00:24:58
    Spanish I'm feeling good I'm about to go
  • 00:25:00
    watch a Spanish TV show and then I
  • 00:25:02
    realized that I need to go do Japanese
  • 00:25:05
    now or I'm gonna lose my streak before
  • 00:25:07
    the end of the day and I don't switch my
  • 00:25:09
    brain up this is why sometimes I have
  • 00:25:10
    confusion
  • 00:25:12
    um in my brain I have a Japanese
  • 00:25:15
    sentence that has Spanish words mixed
  • 00:25:17
    into it
  • 00:25:18
    like I don't like to learn them at the
  • 00:25:20
    same time I want to spend you know a
  • 00:25:23
    couple days here doing Spanish a couple
  • 00:25:25
    days they're doing Japanese and flip
  • 00:25:26
    flop I don't want to have to do them at
  • 00:25:28
    the same time every day and no it's not
  • 00:25:30
    the same as doing one in the morning one
  • 00:25:31
    in the evening it's still not
  • 00:25:33
    it's not working for me
  • 00:25:36
    um
  • 00:25:38
    trying to get a streak you're just going
  • 00:25:40
    to be disappointed every time because
  • 00:25:41
    there's so many things that go against
  • 00:25:43
    you
  • 00:25:44
    um
  • 00:25:45
    yeah after I'd spend spent time doing
  • 00:25:48
    Japanese I would not feel the motivation
  • 00:25:49
    to go and do Spanish and vice versa
  • 00:25:52
    um another thing that I
  • 00:25:54
    struggled with was
  • 00:25:57
    it made me feel like I had to choose
  • 00:25:59
    between them because I just could not do
  • 00:26:00
    both and I wanted to continue to have a
  • 00:26:03
    streak in Japanese overall because
  • 00:26:04
    that's the big main language that I'm
  • 00:26:07
    trying to learn in Spanish is like a
  • 00:26:08
    side thing but
  • 00:26:10
    I couldn't do both at the same time
  • 00:26:11
    that's not how I learned that's not how
  • 00:26:13
    my brain works so it became very very
  • 00:26:15
    frustrating and I had to spend a period
  • 00:26:17
    where I completely ignored the Japanese
  • 00:26:19
    side of the app to learn Spanish for my
  • 00:26:21
    trip to Mexico and I didn't feel like
  • 00:26:23
    that was fair because I felt like when I
  • 00:26:27
    left spanish to go check on Japanese I
  • 00:26:29
    was starting over again every single
  • 00:26:30
    time
  • 00:26:32
    um and it's just demoralizing and
  • 00:26:34
    demotivating
  • 00:26:36
    so in terms of the content now the
  • 00:26:39
    content
  • 00:26:41
    um
  • 00:26:42
    I will say
  • 00:26:44
    it works very well with YouTube videos
  • 00:26:46
    as long as the YouTube videos have
  • 00:26:48
    accurate subtitles so if you have a
  • 00:26:50
    YouTube video and they did
  • 00:26:51
    auto-generated captions that may not be
  • 00:26:53
    very accurate and you may not want to
  • 00:26:55
    pull that I tend to watch Japanese and
  • 00:26:58
    Spanish videos that don't have subtitles
  • 00:27:00
    available
  • 00:27:01
    um and I'm just cool with that because
  • 00:27:03
    you don't always need to study every
  • 00:27:05
    single video you watch you could just
  • 00:27:07
    watch a video because you enjoy the
  • 00:27:09
    content without having to download it
  • 00:27:10
    and study what the people are saying
  • 00:27:12
    because you know you'll pick it up
  • 00:27:13
    eventually
  • 00:27:15
    um
  • 00:27:16
    and so the subtitles have to be accurate
  • 00:27:19
    Netflix Netflix don't work right Netflix
  • 00:27:22
    used to work right because in the past I
  • 00:27:25
    could go to someone else's like playlist
  • 00:27:27
    and I could like download whatever
  • 00:27:29
    Netflix video that they had already
  • 00:27:31
    downloaded because they had already went
  • 00:27:32
    through the effort of paying for Netflix
  • 00:27:34
    going into Netflix downloading the
  • 00:27:36
    transcript aka the captions you some
  • 00:27:39
    some of them are auto-generated a lot of
  • 00:27:41
    a lot of Japanese movies that don't have
  • 00:27:44
    English subtitles will have
  • 00:27:46
    auto-generated Japanese subtitles so
  • 00:27:48
    it's still not the best but they would
  • 00:27:49
    go through the work of downloading that
  • 00:27:51
    importing it into link and I could go
  • 00:27:53
    and I could download that and I could
  • 00:27:55
    take it with me so in the past I've
  • 00:27:57
    downloaded some Japanese movies I've
  • 00:27:59
    downloaded the Spanish version of of J
  • 00:28:01
    of the Jason movies of Friday the 13th
  • 00:28:03
    movies and we was Gucci
  • 00:28:07
    I didn't have to pay for Netflix because
  • 00:28:08
    I couldn't afford Netflix at the time
  • 00:28:12
    I don't know when it changed but now I
  • 00:28:15
    can't like download people's playlists
  • 00:28:17
    like it doesn't allow me to do it it
  • 00:28:19
    looks like you can do it but it never
  • 00:28:21
    works what
  • 00:28:22
    um whether I'm on my phone or I'm on the
  • 00:28:25
    desktop it just never works to download
  • 00:28:26
    someone else's transcript now
  • 00:28:29
    and I just I don't know why but in order
  • 00:28:33
    for me to make it work I literally would
  • 00:28:35
    have to go and pay Netflix which I ended
  • 00:28:38
    up doing I went to pay Netflix to go
  • 00:28:41
    into the captions of these things and
  • 00:28:43
    pull them myself over the link and then
  • 00:28:44
    I could use them but whenever I would
  • 00:28:47
    save someone else's playlist and try to
  • 00:28:49
    open it to study it it would not open
  • 00:28:51
    anything for me it'd be blank
  • 00:28:53
    and that was very very frustrating and I
  • 00:28:56
    don't know if that was because maybe
  • 00:28:58
    Netflix came after them or something or
  • 00:29:01
    maybe it just they decided they didn't
  • 00:29:03
    want that to be able to happen anymore
  • 00:29:05
    but when you are downloading someone
  • 00:29:08
    like if someone did like a YouTube video
  • 00:29:10
    you know free content it works just fine
  • 00:29:13
    but with Netflix videos it no longer
  • 00:29:14
    works and I don't know why
  • 00:29:19
    and even if you go about doing all of
  • 00:29:22
    that and paying Netflix to get those
  • 00:29:24
    transcripts you're still going to run
  • 00:29:25
    into issue of like these movies that you
  • 00:29:27
    want to get transcript of
  • 00:29:29
    a lot of them had Auto generated
  • 00:29:31
    captions
  • 00:29:33
    so it's kind of frustrating that I no
  • 00:29:37
    longer could do that I don't know what
  • 00:29:39
    happened that I could no longer do it
  • 00:29:40
    but I just can't do it anymore and
  • 00:29:42
    that's uh disappointing because there's
  • 00:29:44
    a lot of great content on Netflix
  • 00:29:47
    um in terms of Japanese content
  • 00:29:52
    foreign
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