I think it’s not the going price for this sort of thing, because people don’t seem to be going to this sort of thing.

The law of supply and demand says that if they don’t have enough customers for their product, they have to either lower the price of the product, or stop selling it.

We are all guilty of crimes at some point. Maybe speeding, or parking somewhere without permission, driving when you may be intoxicated, taking some office supplies home, not noticing that your license plate had expired, a million other things.

The point is that any one of us could be arrested and convicted if the authorities decided it was worth their while to.

You are in favor of these people being deported without even judicial review, because you are in no danger of being harmed by the government’s actions. Yet.

I see that the last update was more than 2 years ago. Is it just complete? Or is it being neglected?

I have been pointing out for many years now that humans have been making music together ever since they could bang rocks together and grunt. Every single society in the history of humankind does this.

But a strange thing happened in North America in the early 1900s. People started listening to recorded music, deferring to professionals instead of making music themselves. People started to become embarrassed if they weren’t perfect, and you started hearing people say, “I can’t sing”. And then they didn’t sing.

I was at an international gathering, and people from different organizations started singing their countries traditional songs to each other. The Germans did. The Danes did. The Brits did. When it came to the Canadians, we had no idea what to do, because none of us were used to making music.

My feeling is that the decline in making music together, whether it be around a kitchen table, in a bar, or in a concert hall, is one of the reasons that people in North America especially feel isolated and lonely.

That’s why I encourage everyone to join a choir, pick up an instrument, and just make music no matter how little it sounds like what you hear on a CD or radio (or Spotify). It’s not the quality of the music that matters, it’s the action of collaborating with others to do it.

It’s not clear if the developers are simply trying to build a free alternative to Duolingo, but I’m not a fan of that approach anyway.

I tried Duolingo, but it was really just a flashy form of rote memorization. I had much greater success using Language Transfer, which is also free but is a series of MP3s.

Maybe this could be used in conjunction with LT, the former for vocabulary and the latter building up grammar and processing skills.