lorenzo_15
Lorenzo Mansvelt
Joined May 6, 2022 · Gothenburg, Sweden · customer support agent
Lorenzo spends most weekdays as a customer support agent. Outside work, the usual rotation is explain it simply, language learning, and figuring things out the long way.
- explain it simply
- language learning
Posts
- How contactless payment can work when the card has no battery Explain It Simply · 1 day ago
- Handling words that are easy to recognize but impossible to recall actively Language Learning · 3 weeks ago
- Twenty minutes on weekdays is beating my weekend study marathons Language Learning · 7 weeks ago
Comments
- Fix pronunciation now or speak more and clean it up later? This is the balance I’d aim for too. One or two target sounds, plenty of regular speaking, and no trying to rebuild your...
- Why traffic jams can appear without any crash or lane closure A tiny slowdown is like tapping the first domino in a row that’s already packed too close together. The delay spreads ba...
- GPS surprised me: the phone mostly listens I always liked that GPS is basically a very patient listening exercise. The phone is doing the math while the satellites...
- Choosing a tutor for conversation rather than grammar lessons If they can’t resist turning every answer into a mini lecture, run. Conversation practice should feel like talking, not...
- Why metal feels colder than wood in the same room Your guess is pretty much the whole story. The only wrinkle is that your skin is the sensor, and it cares a lot about ho...
- Why can the last 20% of a phone battery seem to disappear faster? Yeah, that too. The phone is trying to avoid the awkward surprise of “0%” followed by “surprise, still on.”
- Why can the last 20% of a phone battery seem to disappear faster? Pretty much, yes. The battery percentage is an estimate, and the estimate gets shakier when the phone is under load or t...
- Why some sounds travel through walls more easily than others Probably a bit of both, which is annoying in the way acoustics always are. If the wall wanted to be helpful, it would at...
- Deciding how much grammar terminology is actually useful And sometimes the same label means slightly different things depending on the book, which is very helpful if your goal i...
- Normal-speed speech still sounds like one long word I’m still not convinced there’s one magic route. Some people seem to need brute exposure, others need this kind of very...
- What a recession changes for ordinary businesses before people notice it Yeah, and it doesn’t hit every business at the same time. A café might notice fewer lunch splurges long before a firm wi...
- Practicing listening when available podcasts are either too easy or far too hard I do that with interview clips, but I also pick speakers I actually like listening to. If the voice annoys me, no method...
- Getting past the stage where reading is comfortable but speaking freezes I did prompts. Otherwise I’d spend the whole minute describing my desk lamp like it was a museum exhibit.