• Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
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    7 months ago

    Didn’t really hurt but more like sting. I published a popular video and someone wrote they needed to switch from their usual 2x speed watching videos to 1x because of my accent.

    I get it, English is my 4th language so it won’t be very smooth. But I’ve been using it for 99℅ of my conversations since I moved to Korea 3 years ago and I feel I’m better in it than almost everyone I interact with here.

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      7 months ago

      Don’t worry. People that watch videos at 2x can be considered to be insane.

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        7 months ago

        Thank god, I was afraid to be judged insane.

        But I’m good since I watch my videos at 2.5-3.0 times speed!

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          Fucking hell.

          Anything above 1,5 is fast as fuck for me.

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            It’s weird, in my native language I tend to turn the speed down much more often than in English.

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          7 months ago

          Agreed. I’m convinced that most YouTube videos are slowed by 25%. The ones I watch are barely tolerable at 125% speed. I usually run them at 150%.

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      7 months ago

      goign from 2x to 1x is not really that bad of a thing. Hes saying he can understand you but not at an artificially high rate of speed. I personally don’t get watching things at multiple speeds but im someone who would rather read a doc overall.

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      7 months ago

      4th? Man that commenter owes you nothing, nada. You did your best and the rest is their problem.

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        7 months ago

        Polish, German and Swedish. Now I’m learning Korean, not because I want to but because I moved to Korea and without it it’s difficult to do anything.

        That’s also why I had to learn the other languages other than English, because I moved to those countries.

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      7 months ago

      You know 4 languages!?!?! That’s amazing. Don’t let anyone judge you because you’re not 100% in 4 friken languages.

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      I’m usually watching at 2.5-3.0 times speed. I turn down the speed either for A: entertainment (movies simply have a sort of pacing that is not so nice to interrupt (compared to any random YouTube video)), or B: because the content is sooo good and information dense that the limiting factor is no longer audio processing, but following the reasoning of the content. Those are the videos I love most.