itt: stories of yr attempts to master tongues via DUOLINGO

Getting Drops and Clozemaster into the mix really seems to help.

I'm sticking with this Gàidhlig course longer than i have with other languages i've tried on here.

I've started german (primarily using pimsleur but supplemented with youtube and duolingo). live with a fluent german speaker so trying to blitz a base in 6 months and then maybe try to switch to speaking german at home... see how we go

really found 'le journal en français facile' podcast useful for french listening practice - anyone know of a good equivalent in german? think you have to pay for 'news in slow german'

Deutsche Welle has slowly spoken news podcast every day

it used to be free but maybe not anymore if that’s what you are saying

still seems free, just downloaded today’s episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/langsam-gesprochene-nachrichten-deutsch-lernen-deutsche/id282930329

I'm sticking with this Gàidhlig course longer than i have with other languages i've tried on here.

perfect - thanks !
xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxih6CN62V0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SqEmkwADmY

just finally learned what the combo bonus is

Finally got the Norwegian 4.0 tree

Course is so much bigger

i just got the new french tree yesterday (id been focusing on stories)

Stories really good when you already know something, although the first few levels are pretty easy.

I now see new French course too. Now have huge purple swath before 6th castle.

lol i took like two years off, returned last week, ditched my french, norwegian and vietnamese course entirely, and went back to the start with welsh, viz greetings, also beverages: i have no idea what any of you are talking abt purple castles etc

Croeso'n ôl, Marc!

Diolch!

Btw have you looked into Say Something in Welch?

So I made it to the Diamond League, another empty accomplishment.

Welsh course kicked up this interesting sentence this morning.

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/33933544/Dw-i-ddim-yn-hoffi-r-tei-porffor

Too much time on Duolingo(and Drops, really): Saw a sign on a truck that said BIG REUSE and I thought for a second it had something to do with a Dutch giant.

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

wast een berg, kost een beetje!

Hi JamesRedd,

You suggested “Can I get a cheese and bacon omelette please” as a translation for “Ga i omled caws a bacwn, plîs?” We now accept this translation. :)

Thanks for the contribution, please keep it up!

- Duolingo

This was by far the fastest I’ve ever gotten one of those. Same day service. Only a matter of hours really.

Kind of like the way the new French course will ask for a synonym of the French in French.

i do too!

Gotta get back to that French course but right now having so much fun hanging out with Dewi Lingo and the dragon at the Eisteddfod.

Ik kwam, ik zag, ik overwon.

Jij bent.

https://www.hmcdn.eu/ImageRepository/Converted/cea/ceaecbee-0c59-4b23-98b4-f70646d42418.jpg.ashx?w=360

Really still digging this Welsh course. No pressure, Mark;)

I've just got back into iTalki and I'm really enjoying my sessions with Kozo the Translator. Just focussing on conversation rather than anything specific but it's really working out for me. (also use my referral code this shit costs real money)

Thanks! May take you up on that, been resisting that software for a while. I'm assuming that code doesn't have an expiration date.

Or maybe it is for a Limited Time Only.

it think it is forever.

Forever breathes the lonely word.

Anyway came to post that this Clozemaster Pro Cloze-Collection feature works really well with Duolingo.

One can take some sentences from Duolingo or otherwise, stick them in a (private) collection and then do listening exercises, using exactly the same IVONA/Polly voices that Duolingo uses, at least for the baker's dozen languages it is available for. In fact one can choose a voice or cycle through the voices for those languages with more than one.

Mil naw naw naw

I'm so disappointed in myself...this is the third time I've tried to learn Russian. First time it was cassette tapes, second time discs, that shit sits on my floor mocking me. Now I got Duolingo...then shit goes all to hell and the next thing you know Duolingo is reminding me what a FAILURE I am for missing my last session. I'm so frustrated, I want to learn something other than "here is the mashed potato" before I die.

And maybe I should capitulate and finally learn Irish.

https://med✧✧✧.c✧✧✧@tiff✧✧✧.vi✧✧✧/what-i-learnt-by-getting-to-the-top-of-the-duolingo-ruby-league-then-falling-into-the-depths-again-23b948268dc4

Ruby, don’t take your love to town

Liking this XP Ramp Up Challenge thing

finished 90 days with drops!!!

Been messing around going slowly with Irish for a while - so slowly that none of it is sticking - actually committing now and building a streak. Supplementing with Anki, reading a grammar, whatever else comes my way.

finished 90 days with drops!!!

― maura, Monday, March 30, 2020 4:00 AM (four hours ago)

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