I wonder if something similar/equivalent--a multiplayer game--could be used to become fluent in a musical instrument and music...
Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency
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Re: Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency
#72Aside from watching anime, reading manga and listening to Japanese radio (which was to help me get acclimated to people talking fast), I try to play games in Japanese.
That's always a great way to learn new words.
Re: Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency
#73This is awesome. I'm doing something very similar with Chinese and Yu-Gi-Oh right now. So many language courses seem to cater to certain topics like interviewing for a job, getting through college, traveling, home life. But I want to engage and connect with people who share similar interests. Not to mention trading card games are pretty complex themselves and using them as a learning tool forces you to think in the l…
Which deck are you running right now in the Chinese metagame? Are there any archetypes that are laborious to write/pronounce/read in Mandarin?
Re: Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency
#74I wonder if something similar/equivalent--a multiplayer game--could be used to become fluent in a musical instrument and music...
'ROCK BAND" spawned an awful lot of guitarists (that can play a zillion notes per measure).
There's probably something similar for drum,mers, but no. bdy cares ab out them.
Re: Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Certainly AI editorialised. I wonder if this is because English isn’t their first language, and they are confidence compensating. I’ve worked with a lot of folks also from Philippines and the Tagalog/English mix leads to some confidence challenges sometimes.
Recommend everyone take this test: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/09/business/ai-w... You might be surprised…or you might not. I’ve found it’s a good barometer for whether you actually don’t like AI writing or you just don’t like bad AI writing.
This is like the coke vs pepsi tests, where people prefer pepsi when given a small amount but prefer coke in larger amounts. short snippets aren't a good test of anything useful.