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  • The bulk of any text is comprised of the most common 500-1000 words, making up roughly 80% of the text. Words such as “the”, “do”, “that”, “live”, “she”, etc. You need to learn these and understand them without thinking to be able to read a book. Cognates don’t really help you here too much, German and especially French share little core vocabulary with English. Usually you won’t reach this level before B2.

    That being said, I did manage to slowly read quite a dense book about futurism back when I was between B1 and B2 level of German (with a dictionary in the other hand). Also, reading a book but not understanding everything is completely fine and a good way to learn a language.

    Some types of books are easier. Comics might be your best bet, children’s books are easy too but I wouldn’t be too motivated to read them.





  • For passwords, you can use the same KeepassXC database on multiple devices. It’s encrypted, and you can have the passphrase file locally on multiple devices, and the cloud provider cannot access it even by brute forcing. The database itself would not be reliant on the cloud service, you can easily switch between any provider (I currently use dropbox)











  • The point is, there is nothing that special about US politics, and to better understand US politics, you should try to understand the political systems of other countries.

    EDIT: even under this same post there is completely meaningless speculation about whether the US can overcome the two party system. While there is a real life case study about this that you could look at, New Zealand. They had the same voting system. They had the same two party structure. Both former british colonies.