itt: stories of yr attempts to master tongues via DUOLINGO

I still have a soft spot for Norwegian for some reason.

Have you tried to read any of these yet?
http://runeberg.org/folkeven/

no, but looks useful, thanks!

Jsem zde cizí.

Czech is looking real good to me right now. Wonder how long this infatuation will last.

i am on a 100 day streak. i did forget one day but i had a streak freeze. i still think it's cheating but who cares it's a phone game right

No judgment necessary. Streak freeze is sometimes needed.

Still enjoying the Czech. Will see how long this infatuation honeymoon lasts.

ja, jeg vil gjerne kjøpe seks elefanter

Hah, that's one reason I am enjoying the Czech course, none of that BS.

what you don't need to learn "why is the plumber jumping on the turtles" in czech? i thought they did this on all the languages. i didn't get far enough in russian i guess.

Hungarian course is the uncrowned king of that stuff.

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/26091495/Duolingo-Czech-review-and-summary

oh i've never looked at the forums before! just found norwegian4people.com through there and was able to mostly understand a simple story about anders getting dressed and ready to eat frokost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_word_order

Duolingo has a Norwegian Level 2! Who knew?

Jeg forstår ikke engelsk.

Ingen forstår meg.

In other news I see that some people use Discord to learn languages, Norwegian in particular.

how do i get norwegian level 2? i just got to unit 4 but i'm not done with all of 3 yet

Sorry that was about Pimsleur, not Duolingo

It’s pretty rare for them to have higher levels for smaller languages.

Když kocour není doma, myši mají pré.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh5DfKPzNrI

https://blog.duolingo.com/ending-honoring-our-volunteer-contributor-program-2/

Friend sent this but I don’t really buy it: https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/duolingo-weird-sentences-linguistics.html

Zari seems to have an elevated presence these days.

Also noticed this Early Bird Reward thing.

Can’t believe I am still doing this

152 day bokmål streak

Gratulerer med dagen!

Zari seems to have an elevated presence these days.

The Latin course is not so big and there is no tts therefore reliant upon recorded sound, but nonetheless there are a lot of other resources out there for (self)study so…

Anyway still amazes me how okay to good some of the courses are for small of the smaller languages except for Hungarian which is the worst course ever.

Still fascinated by this: https://forward.com/culture/140080/doubling-dutch/

https://www.heardutchhere.net/duhebrew.html

It’s XP Happy Hour into 8PM!

Reached a 2000 day streak today.

🎉🎊

Should have been
🎉👏💯

So even though Duolingo runs its leagues on a weekly basis I’ve adopted a multi-week strategy that’s been working really well for me. I can explain if anyone wants to know more.

Clozemaster just did an upgrade again

Spent about 30plus weeks in Diamond League, now taking a staycation in Obsidian.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca7HycQt5px/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI8UZubOJlo

Forum being deleted in a few days:
https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597/Important-updates-to-Duolingo-forums

welsh course just got reasonably big update though, which was what I was going to check.

Norwegian supposed go get an update too.

And Golden Owl trophy is now some kind of pale blue geode.

Lots of forum stuff being moved here: https://duolinguists.wordpress.com/

tbh seems to be a nicer interface than the current implementation.