/lit/ - Literature

>>16437195
>Plato at least saw this love affair as being something of a mentoring role that would shape the young man into being a good man.
Does Clint Eastwood receive fan mail? I should write a Gran Torino fanfic where Walt makes Thao a man by getting deep into his bussy, and send it to him.

>>16360204
You do know that Romans had huge phalluses on public display, and considered them a symbol of good luck, right? And that prostitution was legal, and that it wasn't shameful to go to brothels, as long as you did it in moderation?
Humans have always been coomers. The issue is with how much dignity you approach the subject. Anglos are still tactless, undignified barbarians at heart. They're only capable of swinging from one extreme to the other, but have no notion of moderation.
They went from muh Victorian prudishness, and "we gotta cover table legs because they look like dicks" to "BBC DESTROYS TEEN ANAL SEX". They don't deserve to have cultural hegemony on the world, because they ruin everything they touch, including pornography.

>>16272934
>and that what the writer needed was not intellectual conversations, contrary to the popular belief, but "light affairs with young girls in bloom"
Based proto-lolicons.

>>16265756
>the statues are black
Not just based, but redpilled too.

>>16125943
Yes. yes you do. Any Briton who is caught saying "aluminium", "lorry", "blimey", etc... should be executed on the spot by a gun-wielding patriot.

>>16096001
I learned English almost from scratch (starting with what little public education had taught me) with a penpal.

The way I'm learning now is by downloading one of those apps that match you with people who want to learn a language, then tentatively cobbling together shitposts using a combination of machine translation, online dictionaries, grammar references, and common sense.

Most of the time natives have a basic grasp of English, so they can elaborate on their corrections, and answer my questions.
Make sure to keep a list of the words you learned, usage notes and corrections you got from native speakers, and recurrent mistakes.

I'd suggest practicing only reading/writing first, until you have the basic grammar and vocabulary down, and you can infer the meaning of the parts you don't know. In the meanwhile, you can try calling your language-learning bros too and practice pronunciation and listening.

When you reach that point of basic fluency, you can start watching movies and TV series. If you go in cold turkey, you'll have to pause the video every three seconds, and spend minutes looking stuff up.
Make sure both the audio and subtitles are in the target language, or at least the subtitles are. If the subtitles are in a language you know, you won't learn anything.

Also, FUCK memes like Duolinguo and Anki. Grammar references are alright (Z-Library is your friend), but don't autistically fixate on learning all grammar rules before reading. Learning comes with practice, not just study.