I switched my kids’ iPads to French to force them to read French. Every little thing counts 🙂

Motivation is the best catalyst for learning? Or something.

They’ll take a game of Minecraft in French over no Minecraft any day.

Hahaha! I'm glad I'm learning these motivational tools before I need them. Kids can't read yet.

@orangy: Speaking of learning languages, what does your son use to learn English? I speak a little Russian (I lived in the Ukraine for a couple years, but have since forgotten most of it) and would like my son to learn Russian, but I'm not sure of the best resources.

@cedric: Your input would be welcome as well (as would anyone else's)

@Ruckus: he does this in school, but previously it was not so motivated for him, so progress was slow. Now he needs it for games 🙂 He likes RPGs and they are often in English and dialogues matter.

Fair enough

@Ruckus: My input on what specifically?

@orangy: Same, I learned English playing adventure games on the Apple ][. It was vital to understand everything or you might never finish the game. Needless to say I had a pretty impressive vocabulary by the time I started English formally in school.

Resources/methods to help a kid learn another language outside formal schooling. I liked your suggestion of setting their iPads to French, and was wondering if you happened to have any other suggestions.

Sorry, I should have made my intent more clear

It’s tough to teach kids a native language when only one parent speaks it, so they go to a French school. Their French is acceptable but still fairly broken and accented. Not much more I can do besides trying to speak French to them (which is not very natural to me).

Yeah, that's the situation I'm in. Sadly there aren't many Russian speakers around here, so I have fallen badly out of practice.

I think Duolingo might have Russian?

Yup.

Looks like it does.

I tried it when it was still in beta and wasn't a big fan. I'll have to check it out again and see how much it's improved.

I learned Russian for five years in High School. I was close to fluent by the time I graduated but never got a chance to maintain my level after that, so forgot much of it 😞 I can still read it fluently but I don’t understand the words I’m reading any more. Sad.

@Ruckus: I'm not certain how the Russian is, but I've been doing the Italian.

My friend from Italy is shocked how much I'm able to grasp.

I feel that I should attribute it to Duolingo 😄

@himrin: Well, with a recommendation like that, I guess it's worth another shot 🙂

Also gods damn this signature verification stuff

test.py

Anyone here developed a plugin for IDEA with Gradle? I can't find much info about how to create plugins with Gradle support. I tried to follow one Stackoverflow post, that suggested to simply create "build.gradle", and reimport the plugin project as a Gradle project. Everything else seems to work just fine with this method, but the project's "Run Configuration" vanished, and it is not possible to create a new one - at least with the UI.

So, I was asked by a friend which I liked better, Kotlin or [Overwatch](https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/), and I still dont have an answer.

Overwatch is overhyped imo.

its TF2 with better production values? I can appreciate that

but see