The Chit-Chat Thread v3: Electric Potpourri

[retrolinkx]

I don't get my body.

For the past two days I've gone to bed at like 2am since my lectures don't start until 1pm, and both times I've slept for 6 hours and then woke up at 8am not being able to get back to sleep, so I HAVE TO STAY UP.

It's awful, and I don't know what's causing it. It just means I'm tired when my 4pm lecture rolls around.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

I don't get my body.

For the past two days I've gone to bed at like 2am since my lectures don't start until 1pm, and both times I've slept for 6 hours and then woke up at 8am not being able to get back to sleep, so I HAVE TO STAY UP.

It's awful, and I don't know what's causing it. It just means I'm tired when my 4pm lecture rolls around.

How are your sleep cycles usually ?
Circadian rhythms are creatures of habit, so if you've been waking up around that time recently, your body just sees your late bed time as an anomaly, and not as a new routine, and stays its usual course.

There could also be external stimuli that wake you up, like someone who goes to work at 8, and slams their car door near you.
It could also be your daily body temperature cycle (yep, that's a thing), that has its peak near 8am, making you uncomfortable enough under the sheets to wake you up.

It could be a number of things. In any case, I recommend an early afternoon nap, 20-30 mins, especially if your temp cycle peaks at 8am, which would make it trough at 2pm and 2am (it's a 12-hour ting).

[Psychospacecow]

Is there a sleep schedule for "work til you plop"? That'd be me.

[The Table Destroyer]

I didn´t know that Space Jockey had a game.

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

So I recently found this, apparently the most popular language being learned in Sweden (via Duolingo) it's...... swedish?

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

^ Very interesting map !
Any idea who has Italian and Turkish ?

[retrolinkx]

So I recently found this, apparently the most popular language being learned in Sweden (via Duolingo) it's...... swedish?

With all the migrants they're taking in, they have to learn the native language.

At this point they may even outnumber the natives, I have no idea.

Pakistan learning French is interesting though.

[ZpaceJ0ck0]

Any idea who has Italian and Turkish ?

No idea. Sorry.

[Kakariko Kid]

^ Very interesting map !
Any idea who has Italian and Turkish ?

If you zoom in, there are grey areas on this map found here. The attached article provides some additional data.


If you compare those grey areas to the map below,


we can assume Italian and Turkish is possibly the #1 language being learned in one of these countries:
Svalvard (Norway)
Western Sahara
North Somalia
New Caledonia (France) 
Soloman Islands
Falkland Islands (U.K)
Suriname
Puerto Rico (U.S.)
Kosovo
(Various small island countries are not visible on the top map)

Also, if you zoom in on Luxembourg, the low resolution of pixels could be either the dark blue or dark green. I couldn't tell which color it is, but I believe Luxembourg is indeed #1 in Italian or Turkish.

If I were to make a guess, Luxembourg is #1 for Italian and Kosovo is #1 for Turkish.

[The Table Destroyer]

So I recently found this, apparently the most popular language being learned in Sweden (via Duolingo) it's...... swedish?

Oh,my nation loves French? I didn´t had any as a school subject.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

^ Very interesting map !
Any idea who has Italian and Turkish ?

If you zoom in, there are grey areas on this map found here. The attached article provides some additional data.


If you compare those grey areas to the map below,


we can assume Italian and Turkish is possibly the #1 language being learned in one of these countries:
Svalvard (Norway)
Western Sahara
North Somalia
New Caledonia (France) 
Soloman Islands
Falkland Islands (U.K)
Suriname
Puerto Rico (U.S.)
Kosovo
(Various small island countries are not visible on the top map)

Also, if you zoom in on Luxembourg, the low resolution of pixels could be either the dark blue or dark green. I couldn't tell which color it is, but I believe Luxembourg is indeed #1 in Italian or Turkish.

If I were to make a guess, Luxembourg is #1 for Italian and Kosovo is #1 for Turkish.

http://making.duolingo.com/which-countri...rn-from-it

Looking at that link, Luxembourg seems to be French, and Kosovo German.
I wish they'd have published a table with a breakdown of countries.

I'm thinking perhaps the Vatican is Italian. Tons of foreign cardinals and other christians come to work for the Holy See, and have to learn Italian.

Stumped for Turkish. I thought maybe Cyprus, but it's English there.

[BumblebeeCody*]

So I recently found this, apparently the most popular language being learned in Sweden (via Duolingo) it's...... swedish?

I'm surprised French is so high but I'm also not too sure what I was expecting.

[Psychospacecow]

Always had a gut feeling that I should've learned Spanish instead of German. Wouldn't matter anyway, really. I can't speak either.

[Kakariko Kid]

^ I sent an email to that website for answers on Turkish and Italian. Hopefully, they will respond.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

^ I sent an email to that website for answers on Turkish and Italian. Hopefully, they will respond.

That's the kind of active mindset we need in government.

#Kakariko2020