nudge

Watching movies with subtitles is great, listening to radio is great, just reading news and books is great - all this helps you build passive knowledge of a language, but it's crucial to actually practice talking (or at least writing) if you want to gain active command of it, there's no way around it, I'm afraid.

Or just go to your profile and there's a "write a public message on your own feed" - I suppose it's the same status thing?

No wonder, otherwise they'd have to tell you all about your government helping create the conditions that allowed Pol Pot & Khmer Rouge to seize power and secretly supporting them for over 15 years Seriously though, after talking to many people from various countries, I realise that education in LT was ace.

Pol Pot?

Certainly heard of the Khmer Rouge though?

I should really start learning Khmer, but damn it's a weird language...

And Estonian.

Cool! How did you like it in Hungary? I was considering it a while ago too, together with Czech Republic.

Where in Eastern Europe did you live? I'm weird, I don't get Heimweh at all.

I'm actually in Cambodia, hehe. I prefer SE Asia to the rest of the world, so ideally I intend to stay here for as long as I can, but there are a lot of countries I'd consider if I had to (actually considered moving to Panama, Malta or Georgia (country, not the US State) a while ago, but decided to stay here for the time being). I'm very flexible and don't particularly care, so no idea where I might end up haha.

No, no such plans haha.

hey, when you come from Lithuania in the early to mid 90s, Milwaukee seems like paradise, I think No, things are not that great in LT. It used to be pretty cool in 2000-2007 when the economy was growing fast, but it's not very rosy these days. Cost of living is rather high while the salaries are still low, emigration rate is immense, we lost over 15% of our population in the last 10-12 years. Working-age population is declining, social security system will inevitably collapse in the (near) future. Corruption and bureaucracy are still a problem.

Two of my cousins actually live in the US. Their family won the green card and moved to Milwaukee some 20 years ago, they were living in Chicago later I think, maybe still are.

He sounds like a tool

Not necessarily, knowing a Lithuanian is not particularly surprising as we're spread all over the world like a bunch of gypsies, haha.

It's two completely different languages (Lithuanian is Baltic, Russian is Slavic), if you could understand parts of it that was probably Russian swear words as Lithuanians like using those

You evil you, ruining people's days like that!

Just substitute it with breadcrumbs

I'm extremely into seafood, so my favourite Thai is still Tom Yum Kung, it's a masterpiece... Not that much into Chinese, but I love the local Chinese seafood restaurant, they offer brilliant crabs, fish, clams and mussels. Also Peking duck is always nice when prepared properly!

Yes, a ot of Thai dishes uses coconut milk, especially curries. The key to Thai cuisine is balancing the five major tastes by combining various spices, herbs, sauces and pastes, so the flavour is very complex and rich. Lemongrass, kaffir lime, galangal, coriander, fish sauce, palm sugar, shrimp paste, chili peppers, garlic and basil are the essential ingredients. What's Cuban food? Never had any!

Messing up a lot of people's stomachs? Wow, never heard that one about Thai food! Seriously, give it a go. For me, Thai cuisine is one of the best in the world.

Hey, I cooked a lot of unauthentic Thai curries in the past, they still were great! Try adding some fish sauce and palm sugar as it helps to balance the taste and make it more authentic, hehe. Also, kaffir lime makes a big difference!

What kind of Thai curry? I barely cook these days anymore, mostly because it's actually cheaper to dine out here.

Aw, sorry to hear that Lucas... But it's not the end of the world, have a beer and move on!

Ah, so that axe incident in Düsseldorf a few days ago was just you looking for Thomas?...