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What is libre culture?

Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.

Some beliefs include but aren't limited to:

That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
That we can all band together to help liberate each other.

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I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.

Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
No NSFW content
When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title. For example: “Project name and summary (GPL-3.0)”

Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it's perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.

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What do you guys recommend for language learning from scratch? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by christian@lemmy.ml to c/libre_culture@lemmy.ml

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Hi all,

I want to try to learn Spanish on my own, right now I barely know anything. Asking in the libre culture community because I know a common answer is duolingo but I don't want to install an app store other than f-droid.

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[–] tekcaj@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

As far as apps, people sometimes use Anki and get a card pack (commonly the most used words or phrases), but that is more of a supplementary tool.

Duolingo also has a website, if installing the app is an issue. Just use adblock in this case.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just web searched for 'librivox spanish', and what do you know, there are 34 pages of Public Domain spanish language books to choose from and play as background sounds to your life.

To help hear real world examples of inflection, intonation and pronunciation, and pick it up passively.

https://librivox.org/search?title=&recorded_language=5&sort_order=alpha&search_page=1&search_form=advanced

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

:-)

Of course to be used with another method of learning the word meanings, a structured course or speaking live with a Spanish speaker.

Some great options here:

https://opensource.com/article/20/2/open-education-spanish

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And, get some CC Spanish music to fire you up, my favourite is:

Xera - Lliendes

https://archive.org/details/Lliendes_112

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I took a year of ไทย classes after work & that was enough to go out & start conversations with strangers. Classes where they speak your native tongue can be invaluable since you can ask very specific grammar questions most native speakers don’t how to answer & the class puts a social pressure on you to keep up. Speaking with natives & listening to media can help a lot.

[–] Jtlkybncv@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you happen to live near a community college? Or is that not what you mean by on your own?

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Software and books exist for this. That’s a more likely interpretation.