Inaccurately translated subtitles are the bane of my life. I'm learning Dutch and the subtitles for Drag Race Holland were so erratic, especially the expletives. DuoLingo doesn't teach you how to swear but my Belgian bestie sure as shit has. Kutwijf indeed.
Dutch sounds fun! I'm horrible with languages so I'm running not far above 1.0 languages here. Do you know anything else other than English and rudimentary Dutch?
I studied French and German until the end of my first year at uni then switched to single honours linguistics but I'm not fluent. I know enough Spanish to get by on holiday and can read a bit of Swedish but only a tiny bit.
That's so great. I was starting to get actually decent at French in high school (public high school in the U.S. but a wonderful teacher) but I stopped studying it after graduation, so I can kind of figure things out and say some things but I've lost basic things here and there. It's so cool to me when people can pick up languages quickly! I've tried DuoLingo because of Katya's unpaid endorsements but because I'm missing some basic rules and vocab I have to really start from the beginning and it gets boring. Probably better to go somewhere where I have to speak it.
Reading Swedish! That's also really cool. A friend of mine lived with his aunt's family in Sweden for part of high school and learned it then. It would be fun to read some Swedish novels!
I started Swedish on DuoLingo at the same time as Dutch but there are a lot of similarities in the early lessons so it got confusing. I got bored of French and German on there too but dip in now and again. The stories are good but I haven't got that far in Dutch yet.
Call My Agent is so good and got me and my then live-in through the pandemic. Sometimes Katya posts things like this and you think you could actually be friends. It's not just me, right? Will check out The Shivering Truth!
The Shivering Truth took my phobias made a pudding of my brain and create a really enjoyable and interesting nightmare 😂. As an Animator, I had to watched it. Stop Motion is my favorite type of animation because it always brings a kind of morbid and dark tone to the script. Have you seen "Mary and Max"?
Oh thank you! I’m freelance so I’ve worked on everything boring 😅 but my biggest loves are illustration and sculpture so stop motion and traditional animation are my absolute favorites.
I read this in Trixie's Swedish, I think it was the okay part
Also one time I worked Grindr’s Christmas party and they asked “Can Trixie wear red and have employees sit on her lap?” I said I would wear white and no one could touch me and they said “okay.”
Camille Cottin is magnificent! I'm now 175 days into my Duolingo French course because of Katya AND wanting to be able to watch Camille Cottin interviews and understand wtf she's saying.
I just remembered that in the last episode of Looking Patrick and Kevin broke up because Patrick found out Kevin was still on Grinder. If only there was someone wise and experienced (and effortlessly gorgeous) in Patrick's life to give him this perspective, we could be on season 8 right now, watching them choose a good school for their twins.
Watched the shivering truth after reading this and I don’t have the right words for it, but it’s one of the most bizarrely interesting things I’ve ever watched and I will be thinking about it for months so thank you Katya.
Inaccurately translated subtitles are the bane of my life. I'm learning Dutch and the subtitles for Drag Race Holland were so erratic, especially the expletives. DuoLingo doesn't teach you how to swear but my Belgian bestie sure as shit has. Kutwijf indeed.
Dutch sounds fun! I'm horrible with languages so I'm running not far above 1.0 languages here. Do you know anything else other than English and rudimentary Dutch?
I studied French and German until the end of my first year at uni then switched to single honours linguistics but I'm not fluent. I know enough Spanish to get by on holiday and can read a bit of Swedish but only a tiny bit.
That's so great. I was starting to get actually decent at French in high school (public high school in the U.S. but a wonderful teacher) but I stopped studying it after graduation, so I can kind of figure things out and say some things but I've lost basic things here and there. It's so cool to me when people can pick up languages quickly! I've tried DuoLingo because of Katya's unpaid endorsements but because I'm missing some basic rules and vocab I have to really start from the beginning and it gets boring. Probably better to go somewhere where I have to speak it.
Reading Swedish! That's also really cool. A friend of mine lived with his aunt's family in Sweden for part of high school and learned it then. It would be fun to read some Swedish novels!
I started Swedish on DuoLingo at the same time as Dutch but there are a lot of similarities in the early lessons so it got confusing. I got bored of French and German on there too but dip in now and again. The stories are good but I haven't got that far in Dutch yet.
Call My Agent is so good and got me and my then live-in through the pandemic. Sometimes Katya posts things like this and you think you could actually be friends. It's not just me, right? Will check out The Shivering Truth!
Katya had me at “(lesbian!),” so it’s nice to know she really understands her audience.
The Shivering Truth took my phobias made a pudding of my brain and create a really enjoyable and interesting nightmare 😂. As an Animator, I had to watched it. Stop Motion is my favorite type of animation because it always brings a kind of morbid and dark tone to the script. Have you seen "Mary and Max"?
That's so cool that you're an animator! What media do you work in?
Oh thank you! I’m freelance so I’ve worked on everything boring 😅 but my biggest loves are illustration and sculpture so stop motion and traditional animation are my absolute favorites.
I absolutely LOVE the shivering truth! It's so odd but it's so fantastic.
I need a ranking of streaming services from Katya that she thinks are worth the money
I read this in Trixie's Swedish, I think it was the okay part
Also one time I worked Grindr’s Christmas party and they asked “Can Trixie wear red and have employees sit on her lap?” I said I would wear white and no one could touch me and they said “okay.”
Camille Cottin is magnificent! I'm now 175 days into my Duolingo French course because of Katya AND wanting to be able to watch Camille Cottin interviews and understand wtf she's saying.
I just remembered that in the last episode of Looking Patrick and Kevin broke up because Patrick found out Kevin was still on Grinder. If only there was someone wise and experienced (and effortlessly gorgeous) in Patrick's life to give him this perspective, we could be on season 8 right now, watching them choose a good school for their twins.
Watched the shivering truth after reading this and I don’t have the right words for it, but it’s one of the most bizarrely interesting things I’ve ever watched and I will be thinking about it for months so thank you Katya.