That rock Canada and Denmark were warring over could be the ideal candidate for selling/donating.

You probably love Rust as much as I do, but this is such an unhelpful comment. Dude mainly programs in C, asks about libraries for C, and you don’t even bother to list any native Rust libs that may give OP an incentive to even consider learning Rust.

I’ve got news for you, mate. You might be a bot. Have you visited your neighbourhood robotologist to get a diagnosis?

I am an active World of Tanks player and Russia did not seize the World of Tanks publisher which is Wargaming. World of Tanks has a bunch of servers: EU, NA, ASIA, and RU. Each server is independent of the other, so if you play on EU, you don’t meet accounts made on NA, for example.

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Wargaming decided to leave Russia, giving players who were on that server a chance to migrate their accounts to European servers. Lesta took over the Russian servers, and for all practical purposes, develop the Russian version of World of Tanks independently. Wargaming still is the developer of the other servers. Neither have anything to do with each other anymore.

But I do agree with the overall point of your post. Please look up who owns and has stakes in the publishers of the games you are interested in, folks.

I have to agree.

I use Codeberg.

Edit: fixed the link.

Assimil is a great way to throw yourself into the language. Each lesson is in the form of a conversation with audio and the pdf has the text along with the translation.

Listen to the lesson without reading the text first. This gets you used to the sound of the language. Then read the text, then text with audio, and finally read the translation along with whatever notes on grammar (don’t focus too much on the grammar aspects when you are first starting out), neither on spellings. Later on you’ll be asked to go back to earlier lessons and reproduce the text. The first phase is to internalise the language. You can read the recommended Assimil way of learning and adapt the steps to something that suits you.

Assimil works well along with Language Transfer for me. Assimil is more immersive while Language Transfer is more explanatory.

I find that music is also a great way for me to learn new words. Once I listen enough times to a song I like, I start humming along, maybe repeat a word or two. The important thing is to not stress yourself out trying to sing along to everything. Maybe there is a catchy chorus or bridge section that is memorable. That is good enough to form associations with words. In this, I find pop songs are a better genre because they are catchy.

Something else I do is have a notebook where the only rule I have for myself is: no using my native language. I try to explain new words to myself using a sketch or whatever basic words I have already learnt. Don’t worry if you can’t draw well, neither can I. But I can draw something that looks like a spoon or a hill. Then I label them, and bam I’ve already learnt two new words. To build on that, I can draw a stick figure on the hill - this has taught me the verb climbing. You get the general idea. Just don’t stress yourself out trying to journal every new word you come across. Be creative and you’ll have fun.