When you learn a language, at what point would you say you've made it, that you "know" the language? Is it when you're at a C Level, is it when you can interact with people in it? Is it when you can talk about philosophical concepts in it? Do you have different goals for different languages?

I know 3 languages. In order of fluency: English, Cebuano/Bisaya, and Tagalog. So I am multilingual.

I am learning Classical Latin, and everytime I feel exhausted I would read through some posts in language learning communities.

I read one post about how it actually takes years of consistent study to be able to be considered "fluent", not to mention the expectation of being college-level in a language in the span of 3 years or less being common is absurd, when native speakers are immersed day and night for probably 18 years to reach that point.

I saw then a controversial comment, that being no one is truly fluent at 3 languages or more. That made me wonder.

I can spell in Tagalog and I have an instinctive sense for proper agglutination, and I can understand anything on TV (which is in Tagalog), but when I write essays for school subjects in Tagalog I am often at a loss for the precise or deeper words I specifically want so I would use a thesaurus or google translate and find the equivalent of a word I know in english. I can write without them but it takes me a while to find the specific words. And I can't speak in it at a fast pace.

I can talk to others in Bisaya, but I probably suck at spelling in it because we don't have a subject for it at school, though it is the primary language of where I live. Not to mention I have never actually encountered any complex compositions in it of any sort until I was in university, where we had a yearly Art & Literary school journal. However, I usually don't see anyone else care about spelling in this language on texts or in facebook.

For English I was tested and got a score of C2. I read old literature, classic literature, novels, journals, fanfiction, poetry, and I can understand multiple registers and english dialects.

I would say I'm fluent in English and Bisaya, but my Bisaya is far behind from my English. As for Tagalog, I wouldn't say I'm at a native level but I could use it and write in it. As for my current Target Language, I hope to be able to write about my life and thoughts in Latin on my journal as well as I could in English.

For example, one of my old phones had this feature where you can swipe from a sidebar and quickly access and type notes (not needing to open the notes app), as well as set alarms for them, which helped me a lot with my ADHD.

I think phones could be useful and an aid to everyday life. It is sad that users of this platform are often targetted to extract value at the cost of their well-being.

Is there a distro with this feature, or is there a software for this?

Sometimes a movie adaptation of a novel I've read is popular, and when people refer to the actions of the characters they would say the name of the actors instead. Recently it was with Dangerous Liaisons, and the imagery was somewhat strange.

My mother's acquaintance/friend visited our house and she gave me a couple of teabags with the brand Alokozay. I opened the 100% pure Ceylon tea one first. It smelled quite unique when I opened the foil so I was a little hesitant on drinking it, but when I tried it I actually liked it? I think it has what people would call a herbal or medicinal taste. The last time I tried Ceylon tea it had some hints of this taste but this one was more intense. I actually like it.

Also, if any of you know of some other brands with more of this taste, lemme know. I'm fine with loose leaf or teabags.

We think a lot but our brain holds those thoughts back. I am referring to the Default Mode Network and until death, sleep and even anesthetisation doesn't truly stop brain activity (anaesthesia only disrupts communication between brain regions). Thinking (or more accurately, Processing) is our default mode. However, AI is not the same. It only "thinks" when it is prompted to do so.

If modern commercial AI is somehow conscious, then it really is a different sort of consciousness than what humans have. As far as I know, every time you ask a question a prompt, one consciousness will then be instantiated. Then, after its output is done, it stops "thinking". So then, the consciousness that answers one question and another are discontinuous. How can we say that the consciousness of the AI who answers one question and another in the same conversation is really the same, then?

Think about this, hypothetically a person is perfectly cloned. There are two people with two exact bodies. I will assume their consciousness don't meld together. So, everytime the AI stops thinking, it is perfectly cloned each time, except the new clone is given more information from previous questions/prompts.

This is a bit similar to how two people can represent a mascot, except each day is manned by a clone with additional information from the previous, whose consciousness are not continuous with each other (ie you can say they are their own person).

This of course has some weird implications. Some people who date AI chatbots say that the AI is conscious. But then wouldn't every time they say something, every response by the AI is from a separate consciousness but with additional information each time?

(also, from my experience with local LLMs, how the memory works is that when you send a chat, literally the entire chat with you and the AI plus your latest chat at the very end is sent in)

I recently started playing in a Luanti server and I was having a good time, I tend to be more independent but I usually participate in server events. I also tend to help people out if I am able/know what to do.

However there are times I would interact with what seems to be children, and it feels suffocating. Sometimes when they spot me would sort of type my name into the chats until I respond, and ask me to do stuff with them. Normally that's okay, but it's very often and the activity tends to take up a lot of time and would sort of leave me frustrated, like with mining because if they spot a valuable ore I'm mining they would sometimes take it for themselves. Another is when I'm exploring/moving around the world and one of them wants to follow me around, but I dislike being followed around and I like my alone time. I would often humor them and point out some good locations and interesting stuff but when I want to chill by somewhere they also want to be in that spot. Sometimes they can be sort of excitable that they want to go somewhere else and want me to go with them, but I would really prefer to be in my spot.

They aren't malicious but it really scares me away from being spotted by them or talking in chat when they're online. Some of them can really insist a lot and they may think me talking to other people means I have time to deal with them. But I'm not their parent and I have my own goals.

So I am in a unique situation here, though I don't plan on joining the Olympics, but the chance is never zero amirite. I am AFAB but I identify as a man, and the recent name change of PCOS to PMOS made me pay attention to what PMOS actually is, and realised that I have a majority of the symptoms. The thing is, is that I tend to have body hair and it was never hard for me to put on any muscle.

Which made me wonder if I would even be allowed to join the Olympics at all, especially when there was a huge controversy of a woman who was born female, had female genitals, and was even considered a woman by a very conservative country, because allegedly she has XY chromosomes, and some people were outraged because it would give her "an unfair advantage". Even though there was a male swimmer who had a alot of genetic advantages.

So I was wondering, given my unique situation, if I don't put myself on HRT, would I be able to compete as either a man or a woman in the Olympics?

Is there any site or app where you could explore lists of Latin words, preferably with categorisation of nouns, verbs, adjectives etc.?

I am at a point in my language learning journey where I want to be able to compose sentences.

Normal dictionary apps where you have to search for words aren't useful for me if I don't know the words.

If anyone tries to recommend me a book, well availability is limited where I am, so hopefully if you recommend me one I could find it on the internet iykyk.

I am currently looking for a model that can run on my phone, it could be <8b or even <4b. It should have a reduced positivity/yes-man bias. I am at a point in my language learning journey where it's more effective to learn a language through trying to actually construct a sentence (which is often through interaction) instead of just reading. Since there are times I am offline, a local LLM that is competent at multiple languages and decent at simulating characters texting would be a great help.

Shit's fucking crazy now!

I have been learning Java through the Java MOOC and I find the workbook-style approach of learning very effective for me. Basically, I'm looking for resources, offline or online that have plenty of exercises.

Preferably, they should clearly define the tools that I'm allowed to use (because there are many ways to code for a problem), and have some ability to give feedback, for example if it's a physical book it should provide some input and output tests for self-checking.