I’d like to believe that the team writing that test has little or nothing to do with the teams writing the courses.‘Real’ vs. ‘fake’ sounds more like a test for dyslexia than a proficiency test.
― Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 August 2018 06:54 (five years ago) link
Mijn naam is haas, ik weet van niets
― Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 August 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link
OderMein Name ist Hase, ich weiß von nichts.
― Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 August 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/kbgWk5Nl4hw
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 11 August 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
Hartelijk dank!
― Suspicious Hiveminds (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 August 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Dank yo!
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 11 August 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Niks te danken!
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 11 August 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
Graag gedaan!
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 11 August 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
En: graag de tekst uit je hoofd leren voor maandag ;-)
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 11 August 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
Hindi (grammar) notes and tips start one lesson before the first checkpoint and end with the second checkpoint.
― Blecch, where is thy Zing? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
So they finally added Tips (&Notes) to the app, although I can only see for Spanish and Chinese. Although App Store says that they also added Tips for French but I can’t find those.
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 September 2018 11:41 (five years ago) link
Indonesian seems to have shown up recently
― St Etienne Is Real (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 September 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
Jaké jsou tvoje cíle?
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 11:08 (five years ago) link
Finally finished Hungarian.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 October 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link
Waarom zijn de bananen krom?
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 October 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
Dutch Duolingo appears to radiate a definite 70s vibe for some reason:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RyRRjl39rI
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 20 October 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
Ha! They also hadHeb jij ooit een rechte banaan gezien?
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 October 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
i have been so bad at this for so long
the owl sometimes waves sadly at me from my phone but i ignore
― mark s, Saturday, 20 October 2018 10:29 (five years ago) link
We miss you, Mark S. Do you still want to learn Welsh?
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 October 2018 10:44 (five years ago) link
i still want to learn everything! maybe when my book is out in the world and out of my head (just a few more weeks i hope) (i also haven't played the piano all year!)
― mark s, Saturday, 20 October 2018 10:46 (five years ago) link
We haven’t seen you in a while. Take a 5 minute lesson now!
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 October 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
Rome is niet op één dag gebouwd.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
Hm, stopped working this afternoon
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 October 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
The iPhone app, that is. Desktop is fine.
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 October 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
Just reinstalled, seems to work again
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 October 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
Snězte tu žábu!
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 October 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
Sorry, what I really saw was just Snězte jablko!
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 October 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
Ik zag de astronaut in een zwart gat vallen.
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 October 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
For once, I can’t tie a 70s song to that one, but I’m eagerly awaiting Duolingo serving you “Als het gras twee kontjes hoog is”!
― breastcrawl, Monday, 22 October 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
arabic launching next year, which I've been waiting for
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 October 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
Nå må dere hoppe i loppekassa!
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
Smi mens jernet er varmt!
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
Er du tospråklig?
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
haha, very good James
― niels, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
Har vi mødtes før?
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link
nej, det tror jeg ikke...
― niels, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
Falsk alarm
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
Some of the tones are wrong in the Mandarin course which can be slightly annoying. For the most part course seems pretty nice though in its current form.
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
Started French on dis ting. Never learned another language before (apart from a D at GCSE). About a quarter of the way through - I presume the easy bit. I'm gonna be an expert in talking about dresses and ducks. I'm supplementing my Duolingo by watching Star Wars in French, listeing to l'equipe's football podcast when I go to bed, and I've ordered a dozen Asterix books.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
I am still confused about the crowns and new levels but at least I restarted the spanish and french and trying to power completely up again.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
In the end think crowns are an improvement on the prior system.
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
Took a couple of months off but have restarted Swedish. My reading and writing is pretty good, but I would never dare speak the language out loud to anyone.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
I prolly wrote about this above, but I studied french for 6 months on duolingo and then did some skype sessions on italki to practice my conversation. By the end of the first 30 minutes I was soaked in sweat.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
I want to get back to my Italian tree. It's in bad shape. I've mostly been wanting to work on French, where Duolingo isn't so useful for me anymore - what I really need are more opportunities for conversational practice.
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
Yeah, for French I really do think you need native French speakers to speak with. Italian and Spanish seem more phonetically intuitive for americans.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
I live in a highly bilingual Canadian city, so I'm not exactly lacking native speakers. It's really just shyness/laziness/fear.
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
When I speak spanish in spanish speaking countries everyone switches to english or wants to practice their english with me. In France, no one switches to english and everyone corrects me. I kind of love it.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
I had 4 years of HS Spanish and did all of Duolingo and live in a Spanish speaking country for the last 2 years. Did all of duolingo for French, had no previous French language background, lived for 4 months in France and go back for a month once a year. My French is probably 3xs better than my Spanish because I was forced more to speak it.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
I'm curious what order people do the tree in - do you work through several levels of each new skill or move to the next one ASAP? Do you mainly click manually on individual skills or mainly do timed practice sets? When do you go back to old skills, if you do? and so on
not sure why I ask except I feel I may be doing it ~wrong~, but I guess there is no wrong as long as you're not bored, forgetting a lot of things or out of your depth
for me, the pre-crowns system made it clearer what Duolingo's magic algorithms thought you should be doing next, with the health of old skills fading, and the timed practice seemed to revisit old topics more whereas now it seems to be giving me questions from topics I haven't got to yet instead
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
I took French in grade school, but didn't use it at all for about a decade. Duolingo was very useful for brushing off the cobwebs. In some ways, though, Italian is psychologically easier since I'm learning it from scratch. I don't go into it with the shameful feeling like I should already know such-and-such.
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link