Gregory's ServerStages of #Duolingo:
-This is so cool and helpful!
-I’m learning so quickly!
-I can share my progress with friends! 🥰
-I’m so obsessed with my streak haha!
-I want to punt this stupid owl into the centre of the sun
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@der_schrank totally understand that. It’s not great for rules. I’m learning Japanese, which I already know a bit, and I’m finding myself doing a lot of the sentence structure on instinct. It’s great for re familiarising and vocab improvement tho  @coldclimate @girlonthenet I was hoping that, amongst all the sex positivity, we could be a bit more understanding of my green friend with the T H I C C booty. @girlonthenet So true. Wanted to learn Swedish for my next holidays. I am currently at stage 4 and slowly moving towards stage 5.  @girlonthenet If you're my wife, the final stage is:  @girlonthenet honestly. He's more obsessed with my ranking than is sane. And as for the mythical "protect your streak" option, I've yet to discover it. @clenpen mine just seems to automatically protect my streak when I forget to do it. The streak is a lie? I think? @girlonthenet well that's reassuring. I was hoping to have a day off for my birthday. It's starting to feel like a hostage situation! @clenpen if you click on gems and go into the shop, do you have any ‘streak freeze’ available? That’s the one, they should have given you a couple to start with I think @girlonthenet mine says 4/4 equipped. But I didn't understand what that meant. (Spot the non gamer). Maybe my streak is protected already then? I might risk it on my birthday 🤣 @girlonthenet thank you! I'm looking forward to it. Off to France with my husband. I'm hoping for a lot more fun than a Spanish lesson 😉😂  @girlonthenet @girlonthenet so far 600+ days of fair streak. Nothing is ideal but at least this app gives a lot of examples to memorize the words and sentences. Others usually just give some grammar + a couple of samples. @ch2ds reposted, and I agree tbh. I am being a hit mean about it, but I do really love it. I picked it up because my boyfriend mentioned wanting to go to Japan and I am so desperate to impress him in case he wants to take me 😂  @ch2ds @girlonthenet I find it's hugely course-dependent. E.g. I remember the Irish course as not being too bad at having a good balance of grammar and vocab-building. Some of the others are a bit sink-or-swim and you really have to supplement them with other material to have a chance of understanding what's going on.  My main complaint about Duolingo is the repetition. It's fine at first, but when you're more than a hundred lessons into Arabic and every other question is still "what sound does this make", you start questioning your own sanity. @grishka yeah same with Japanese. I wish there was an option for ‘stop teaching me kana, I’ve had that covered yonks ago’ |
@girlonthenet I tried learning Turkish using it, but it only concentrates on vocabulary. Using it is a game of trial and error. I need to understand how a language ticks to use it (especially with a very structured language like Turkish)