itt: stories of yr attempts to master tongues via DUOLINGO

apart from huevon as mentioned above

i like

bacan: cool

cachar: to understand

wea: thing, generally when you can't find the correct word for something it becomes "esta wea"

huevear: to annoy

carrete: a party/a night out

pololo/a: boy/girlfriend

pega: job

yerac, you might already be familiar with this site, but this is good for etymologies and chilean slang: http://etimologias.dechile.net/

but yeah, huevon/weon/wea/huevada/huevear, and bacan, are all used in other parts of south america, especially peru

cachar means to fuck in peru

one thing i always found funny is carajo means shit, right? well in venezuela and other parts of latin america they call small children carajito

there's all sorts of things like that in latin america though

yeah like guagua means baby in chile but bus in cuba

ha that's true

Xpost

LingoDeer is better for Japanese, at least, as it explains the grammar points where Duolingo doesn’t. Can’t comment on other languages.

안녕하세요

iPhone app looks quite different now

All the drawings are now more jolly for one thing. As is Golden Duo, who no longer has a flag draped over his shoulders

MENOS DE 10
2 SLICES
MASAJE GRATIS
RINGS CHEESE FRIES

Ha, wrong thread

or IS it?

Ha, exactly.

But came back to post: Hawaiian now has sound

Looks the same again. Must have been a temporary switcheroo

Jij hebt mijn stijl gestolen.

Jouw woorden zijn net poëzie.

Think there must be some sort of server shortage and when I see the older style icons, which just happened again, it is throwing me on some dev server.

is there an astroturfing push on at the moment? - i keep getting alerts about old complaints i lodged in the forum where some doofus comes out with a reply something like " y'know what's really clever about duolingo? - that they do this that or the other"( which is actually garbage and helps nobody learn anything practical...) always ascribing some kinda overarching plan to the random slew of shit nobody says which is the same at level 1 as it is at level 30

Don’t know anything about that.

Just reinstalled and it looks the way it has been looking as of late but performs much better.

En we zingen en we springen en we zijn zo blij.

The Duolingo forum has a few threads with people complaining about the new look and some changes to scoring on the android app.

Almost done with Danish. Some crazy sentences now, such as:
Det er ikke min skyld, at rumvæsnet stjæler mine lektier hver dag.

Or
Er du virkelig bang for et lille spøgelse?

Finished. The last lesson was on HC Anderson. Feels like something is missing now that Duo no longer has the flag around his shoulders.

stærkt arbejde, james! how many courses have you done by now? and how do you feel abt the sound of spoken danish?

More courses than I’d care to admit to right now, sorry. I know that some people think Danish pronunciation is weird, but I like it, having watched many Dreyer films and The Kingdom and The Kingdom II many times.

that's pretty cool james!

In fact years ago I worked through the Teach Yourself and Routledge Colloquial courses in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. I already knew German so this wasn’t too hard. *coughs* Reading is not that hard but listening comprehension is still quite difficult as is proper production of grammatically correct sentences. You have just inspired me to think of getting the Pimsleur Danish course.

( Attempting to proactively embarrass myself out of my language learning jones)

(My name is James Redd and I am a compulsive language learner)

(Not sure if it’s working)

Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!

Godt Nytår!

¡Feliz año nuevo!

Not to be pedantic, heh, but I feel like more often than not I just hear ¡Feliz año! without the nuevo.

Yeah? I don't think I've ever heard it that way amongst Spanish friends and family.

I'll listen out for it though and will probably notice it now. Whereabouts are you JR&tBs?

In New York, in Queens. I am thinking of Argentines I know, as well as Colombians and Mexicans. And Dominicans!

I just got looked at like I am crazy for asking about the feliz año vs feliz año nuevo (in Chile).

I heard it several times yesterday and have a text and an email in that form.

I found a couple of sites that say some people shorten this to feliz año when speaking.

I feel like it is probably considered a little more informal hence friendlier. I am sending out RFIs to native speakers.

My partner (Cuban-Spanish) agrees that saying just 'feliz año' is fine in speech and pretty common, though she personally favours the full phrase. Good to learn. Gracias JR.

¡Feliz año a todos los estudiantes de lenguas de ILX!

No hay de que.

I got veto'd from putting "espero que no te hayas portado mal este año" in the holiday cards to the building doormen this year (not a fancy building, most buildings have doormen here). I went with the simple "felices fiestas".

So Teach Yourself has made the audio for many of their courses freely available- although the relevant app is super buggy- and a lot of the ebooks are available at $3.99 on US Amazon, for now at least

you can just download audio if you want. Best practice to avoid buggy behavior seems to be to download all at once and not track by tracks

But I really came to post that somebody just told me “¡Feliz Año, mi estimado!”

Convenience link to current site for old school public domain courses from the US FSI etc.: https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/index.html

And to U of C Bengali course: http://home.uchicago.edu/cbs2/banglainstruction.html
along with related audio: http://www.iu.edu/~celtie/bengali_archive.html

Hij denkt dat hij iemand is, maar hij is niemand.

Je huiswerk voor deze week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiTvbWMHbn4

Dank u wel!