My Vocal Writer version of Cantina Band. Yeah, I'm too bored and have too much time at hands 😂
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Nikolett Till
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-08-15+glitchI'm Nikolett from Hungary. I'm interested in IT, accessibility, languages, gaming, music, and a bit of everything. I'm a Russian-Hungarian translator. I speak Hungarian on a native level, English and Russian at around C1, am able to understand some German, Greek, Dutch and Polish.
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What's your favorite word in a foreign language you're learning?
About two or three years ago, I already wrote about which words I like in Russian in my Telegram channel. Some of them were completely random words, for example, "скатерть." Yes, I really do like the way that word sounds, and I still feel the same way about it.
But what about other languages?
In my life, I've already studied English, German, Polish, a little Dutch, and now I've become pretty deeply immersed in Greek. Since this isn't some sudden obsession that flared up and then disappeared just as quickly, I'm taking my intentions with this language much more seriously. I've reached the point where I genuinely want to take a Greek proficiency exam. Of course, if you think about it, it's just a piece of paper, but yes, I want to officially prove that I know Greek. When exactly that will happen is a good question. But someday, definitely.
So, have I found at least one word that has become my favorite? Yes. Actually, two.
The first is "truth." In Greek, it's αλήθεια, and if you write it using Russian letters, it's roughly "алифья." I don't know why I find this word so beautiful. There's just something special about it.
And the second is μάλιστα, malista, with the stress on the first syllable. It roughly means "of course", "yes", or "okay." The problem is that this word doesn't make me think of "of course" at all. I immediately picture myself walking down the street, tripping or bumping into something, and then... MAAAALISTAAAA! 😂
As if it were some kind of swear word.
The funniest part is that I asked a few other people who don't know Greek what they thought, and they feel pretty much the same way 😂
What language are you learning, and what's your favorite word?
Seeing everyone on my Mastodon home feed ordering iPhone 18 pros makes me feel so fucking poor that I'm over here thinking about what I'm going to eat tomorrow instead...
The feeling when, after a year and a half, you can finally look at your ex from the outside and watch him manipulate his current girlfriend in exactly the same way, using exactly the same tricks he used on me.
When we got together, I never wanted to be famous, or even to write publicly at all. Since he had a Telegram channel, after a while he convinced me to start one too and post there. He didn’t force me. I just felt a little suppressed without it. And there it is, happening again a year and a half later, with the next victim.
When I met him, I was fragile, awkward, and at one of the lowest points of my life emotionally. It's no coincidence that he keeps going after people like that. And there it is, a year and a half later, and nothing has changed. The only difference is that I've grown stronger since then and I'm comfortable with myself now. His current victim won't be for quite some time.
When I first met him, he contacted me every single day. Day and night. The love bombing was beyond anything you could imagine. Then, three months later, that changed when, right after my mother died, he immediately went away for two days to a grill party. His current victim hasn't experienced that yet... Or at least we don't know. She will nonetheless.
And I could go on.
The worst part is that I'm silently watching all of this happen and I can't say a word. Because seriously, what would it look like if I warned the girl? I'm not going to. Nobody warned me either. Of course, that doesn't mean I have to behave the same way.
But in situations like this, I think the best thing is for everyone to learn from their own mistakes.
#psichology #relationship #manipulation #ex #emotions #feelings
I just want to share something very positive with all of you.
I've just realized it's always better to talk to people, even if you think nothing will change after your message.
I sometimes watch Tiktok. Yesterday at night I found a man there from Greece. He's posting videos about the language, culture, ancient Greek, and basically everything that's connected with the culture. Sometimes his videos are pretty visual, so I don't always catch what he's doing. The content is very interesting though, so I was thinking like hmm, why not to write him. It's true he has a lot of followers, and he seems to be a very popular person, I thought well, if I never try, we'll never know. If he answers, I'll be very happy, but if he doesn't, at least I'll know I tried.
Yet at night I wrote him a message about how much I like his content. I also asked him if he takes private students as well, or does he teach only online. I told him I'm blind and unfortunately it scares a lot of people away, but I'm generally a very open-minded person so I hope I didn't scare him away.
I woke up in the morning. Nothing. I ate my lunch. Nothing. And when I almost lost all my hope, I got a notification from Tiktok. He answered.
Now that's what I call standing on the ground with two feet. A very popular young man who probably has more followers and messages every day that I've seen in my entire life, answers me and it's actually not AI, but him.
He sent me his Linkedin, as well as suggested me to discuss the possibility of online studying further, also he said although he has no experience, he would be more than happy to try, he sees no reason not doing so.
I'm so glad such people still exist and not everyone turns their head away when blind people reach out.
A very big shoutout to Ilias.
#blind #disabled #greek #student #tiktok #accessibility #a11y
To all of my blind followers. Is anyone interested in playing the game Core Keeper? I'm working on an accessibility mod for a few days now and slowly I'll be looking for testers.
Greek blind friends on Mastodon, what TTS do you use on a daily basis? I don't know the language myself but I'm very interested in your culture, folk songs, as well as Greek music from different genres. And I'd like to hear all the names and titles with good pronunciation. What do you recommend me?
You know if Hades is your favourite game when you hear a storm coming and you tell your friend, "oh, listen, Zeus is doing his job" 😂
My friends have just shocked me with the fact that there's a hungarian band called "Piás nővérkék", which can be translated as "Alcoholic sisters" but in a diminutive form. I'm hungarian but I never knew such trash exists here 😂 they play party songs and cover others.
I completed one of my favourite games, Hades for the first time. Now let's go further! And time to learn Hades II 😊
Replying to
@tardis @TarkabarkaHolgy And that's why I love my native language. We are so creative! 😂
Gave up modding Core Keeper because I just can't get orientation working. It seems just impossible for me. It seems as if the character doesn't move straightly, we constantly bump into walls and we don't know why. No, I don't want to implement teleportation in an exploring survival game, never. I'll let my sister play instead, and maybe, at some time...
Replying to
@Tamasg Does Claude have more usage limit than Codex? I have the 20 dollar subscription of Claude but honestly, I'm not satisfied with the pro usage limit at all. Yes, I'm not willing to invest $100 a month. Yes, for me $100 is too much at the moment. But I'm still paying $20 and what I get is basically almost nothing. Gemini pro costs a bit more, and although I'm getting it for free due to me being a student, the usage limit is much more generious than what Claude has to offer. It's slower and it produces more bugs, but it's also reliable and I get a fair usage limit for the money I'd have to pay if I wasn't a student.
Yessss, almost all my favourites qualified for the ESC grand final! I'm very sorry for Latvia though... You were so cool, Atvara.
The way audiogames forum administration works is very interesting to say the least. They find someone from the same country as someone who has been banned before and most of the admins don't even know where and why but they ban people left and right. Yet noone has found out that Iwain is Caccio72 and Strilin is Tdani, both of them were banned indefinitely and they just, chill there and are proud of it in our local community 😂 it's just very hilarious that it's possible to comfuse them so hard they don't even realise it.
Who's watching the Eurovision Song Contest this year? What are your opinions on the contest itself? Which songs are your favourites in 2026?
I've always followed it when Hungary was still participating. And then our government said hungarian musicians deserve more than a contest which is being heavily influenced by politics, so we refused to send any contestants for a very long time now.
Last year I saw Sweden's entry in a youtube shorts video. It was very funny for us hungarians because in the chorus, anyone who speaks hungarian, could easily hear swear words, even if all they did was to praise sauna :D
I sent the song to my best friend and we decided to follow poor Sweden along so we watched all the semi finals and the grand final too. We enjoyed it a lot. Everything started with Sweden but then we realised we started to like more and more entries. From last year I wanted Greece to win so bad, that woman's voice is just perfect. I also liked The Netherlands, Iceland, Norway, Ireland was very cute, and well, I could continue on and on. The worst was the UK, I'm sorry. Also even if Hungary didn't participate, germans gave us some credit since the participants Abor & Tynna are originally hungarians. :)
This year it's a bit more complicated because a lot of countries boycott the contest because of Israel. While I somewhat understand them, since it's very unfair; either ban all the countries at war, or don't ban anyone, that's it.
So what are your favourites this year?
I did a ranking battle on a site and here is my top 15 this year.
1. Sweden
2. Romania
3. Denmark
4. Croatia
5. Latvia
6. Cyprus
7. Finland
8. Portugal
9. Malta
10. Greece
11. Moldova
12. France
13. Albania
14. Ukraine
15. Luxembourg