tag: Language

During my last Istanbul trip of 2026. I’ve settled on a Turkish language learning approach for this fall and winter. My goal is to have basic conversational Turkish that I can weave into my sets when I return to Istanbul in spring or early summer. I’ve learned other languages (including French and German) up to a high1 level of both spoken and written fluency. I learned both languages by complete immersion: living in said countries for over a year and using the language at work. In both cases, I managed to evolve from not being able to speak to speaking fluently (albeit with grammatical mistakes) in about six months. This however meant I was interacting with the language (reading emails, speaking to colleagues, ordering food) for well over 8 hours per day. ...

Today I defined my focus for this winter until begin February.I’ll spare you he details; it boils down to: Doubling down on my corporate sales job instead of daydreaming about returning to entrepreneurship. Looksmaxxing: cut down to ~10% BF and then decide if I want to hardmaxx (sliding gynioplasty). Enjoy high-quality leisure: learning Turkish and reflecting on my daygame journey. My Sales Job I switched into tech sales because I was fed up with my nerdy data engineering solo-business. Though introverted, I just didn’t enjoy being alone staring at a screen all day. More importantly, I feel my sales jobs actually improves my daygame: every week I make over 200 cold calls, practicing my speaking skills (pace, objection handling, tone of voice). ...

When I was in Riga I opened a blonde German girl when I was out with my wing. We were on the square where she was gazing at the Freedom Monument. It took me three times to walk past her before I could muster up the courage to open. The set itself was rather short. She was waiting for her friend who had arrived. I took her number and moved her to long game. ...

I just came back from my second daygame session in Lyon. In total I did 4 approaches in a bit less than two hours. The first set I opened in English, but then switched to French. The three following sets I only spoke French. Overall, I’m very satisfied with my results: three discussions from 3-7 minutes each and only one brush off (because she had just dialled her mom on the phone). Daygaming in French, which is not my foreign language, feels like I’m learning it all over again. Stacking and vibing is a lot harder: not only have I come up with things to say, I also have to come up with the actual grammar and vocabulary on how to say it… ...

Street Stop This was the lay that took the most work until now. I opened her on Hackescher Markt as I was walking out of the night shop. As I was stepping outside, I saw a curvy German girl with nice dark brown hair approach the entrance. The set went well and we went on an instant date by the riverside. She wanted to buy a beer to drink on her getting fired today. Ouch. We swapped numbers and ...