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halfflat halfflat @beehaw.org

PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at UT Austin. Currently writing about sound, experimental music, and urban change in Austin, Texas.

On the microblogging side of fedi: https://assemblag.es/@halfflat

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Seafood Linguine
  • Truly there are few things better in this world than seafood + noodles + sauce

  • Language Learning: a how-to
  • Fascinating. The origins of the method are a real rabbit hole too, I kinda miss the era where stuff like this would crop up on forums.

    For Spanish I‘ve been on a hour-a-day schedule combining reading a novel on lingq, duolingo (which is a handy review tool if nothing else), and verb form flash cards. I do plenty of extra stuff outside of that, watching shows and podcasts in Spanish, but the 10 hour a day timeframe advocated by the original L-R sources is definitely intense.

    Anyway, thanks for the write up! Some great sources here for sure.

  • Language Learning: a how-to
  • I had never heard of the L-R method before, it's kind of astonishing that it has worked for folks. I suppose LingQ/LWT combines some of these approaches together --- it's hard to imagine doing 10 hours of LingQ reading though.

  • New Standard Tuning Noodling
  • Thanks dude!

  • Getting the most out of fediverse communities
  • Unfortunately I think it'd be complicated as far as moderation goes, because posts would have to be moderated across instances by different mods.

  • New Standard Tuning Noodling

    pixelfed.social halfflat shared a post

    Tune in fifths, noodle with fourths! #guitar #newstandardtuning #jazz

    halfflat shared a post

    Not sure if rules against self promo prohibit vids of us noodling or not, but I've been working in "New Standard Tuning" (all fifths and then a high minor third) lately and it has been a fun experience...apart from having to memorize 4 note per string scales, there are some real finger twisters at the low end of the neck for sure. Anyone else tried this out?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_standard_tuning

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