>>>>Considering that I no longer program for a living, but only for my own amusement, the section where I spent most of my time lurking was the chatter forum. I've been a paying member for many years, but now I really don't see the value (for me) of renewing next time around.
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>>>While I was, ahem, contributing to the mess myself, I find that I'm not missing it, or at least not too much. But then if it was reinstated there would have to be some list of never-do-this and it would have to include politics. Or at least american politics (which is what broke the camel's neck) - but then it would be the missing elephant in the room. Is there any other politics that's independent from it?
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>>>So, it's not only impossible to draw a line, but it's also impossible, even if such a line was drawn, to have more personnel watching the line than there's for the maintenance of the whole rest of the site, as Michel explained. IOW it's not that the bar serves bad drinks, it's the guests that get unruly when drinking.
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>>Like you, although I am interested in politics, I can live without it on UT. But it would be nice to have Sports, Movies, Books, Food, Women :), Linguistics (especially French :) as Chatter forums. Otherwise, I am beginning to read Yahoo news when I am bored :)
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>Have you seen the slow news site? Broadcasts in slow French, Italian and Spanish. Great to keep up with your languages...
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https://www.newsinslowfrench.comThank you for the suggestion. Yes, I have seen it. But my French is not good enough, yet, to watch it, even in slow. I went through Pimsleur French 1 to 4 and now in the process of studying Level 5 of Pimsleur French (the highest level).
I love their approach. When I finish it, I will start watching more serious videos, like this one, Slow news in French.
I also watch many leaning videos on Youtube. My favorite is French with Pascal (example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8yMdMWjvQI)
I have been also watching French series on Netflix, with English subtitles, but paying great deal of attention to the french language.
Learning a new language is very tough at this stage (my wife says 'why do you torture yourself? ;). But I am stubborn :)
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
