That's some perfect timing as I came across Kongen Befaler like three days ago. It seems the reddit links also have subtitles which is really useful, thanks. And yeah I've also noticed a lot of actors and singers seem to have a more western accent. Duolingo definitely doesn't prepare you for that.
I've been learning Norwegian on and off for some time now. What I always found interesting is how much I can understand from written Swedish and Danish (+ Nynorsk) while still having difficulty with even basic spoken Norwegian if it isn't the most common Oslo accent.
As a general suggestion then, for something easy I'd go for a Scandinavian language (Danish, Norwegian or Swedish). You only need one of them to kinda understand the others. For something harder Finnish or Estonian is interesting because of the many noun cases but not very useful. I don't know anything about Asian languages but Korean and Japanese would be next on my list.
I like most songs by Carla's Dreams (Romanian/Moldovan + Russian). From eurovision, Shum (Ukrainian) and My sister's crown (English+Ukrainian+Czech+Bulgarian) are pretty good. Slavic languages just sound nice in songs.
Also most pop in catalan (eg. La sortida, escriurem, Ara!).
For something rarer check out Pat Boy who sings in Mayan.
Adult second hand clothes are fine too even if you'll wear them longer than a child. There are many people who give away clothes in perfect state just because they don't wear them as much. I've had similar luck with brand new 40€ jeans and second hand 5€ jeans.
Not sure if this applies to the US but for most things you buy from a supermarket the generic supermarket brand is usually just as good or even better than the big brands. And it's usually much cheaper.
Not the person you asked but I have a couple of sims by different providers that I swap between phones/sim routers when I need to make calls or use data from that carrier. Popping the sim into an old device and configuring whatever I need is super convenient.
Maybe about a year ago. It was an actual offer from a site I knew already and was too lazy to go and check it manually. Never making that mistake again as for months afterwards every ad I got was from this site. I now use adblock on my phone as well so I don't see anything but I bet I'd still get ads from that site if I didn't.
With a quick search it seems to be a translation specifically targeting Android 8.0 (API 26) but I only see it in the TBLauncher project. Some small details here but not sure why there is a separate translation for it https://github.com/TBog/TBLauncher/issues/90.
I've also had problems with Firefox on mobile. For some reason it's just very heavy on my phone, slower than chromium and has frozen android twice. I go back to it every now and then to see if it's changed but until then there are many browsers that support ad blockers. Kiwi works great for me
The best that comes to mind is Crimes of the Future. There are people growing new organs and altering their digestive system to eat plastic.
The book Borne was supposed to get a movie or TV show adaptation at some point. I really hope they make this well cause that's one of the best examples in my opinion.
Regardless of home alone, every version of Carol of the Bells I've heard is great. And it sounds like a horror movie theme so I listen to it throughout the year.
I thought I'd use it when I got my phone but I've since found Bluetooth headphones that are actually convenient so I don't. Now this headphone form factor is dying so I might go back to wired once they stop working. I hope the jack still exists by then.
Watching game shows like the voice or masterchef of other countries to get a feeling of "real" language/accents. Usually movies or the news use a more formal and clear language but when you understand these shows you know you can understand people in everyday conversations.
I had the same idea but it seems only kbin users' downvotes appear on kbin (but you can see lemmy users' upvotes). Have you managed to see lemmy downvotes like this at some point?
That's some perfect timing as I came across Kongen Befaler like three days ago. It seems the reddit links also have subtitles which is really useful, thanks. And yeah I've also noticed a lot of actors and singers seem to have a more western accent. Duolingo definitely doesn't prepare you for that.