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by Basler Biker
Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:53 pm
Forum: Idéer (Ideas)
Topic: [CURCL] This is how I got my CEFR level for Swedish
Replies: 3
Views: 406
Switzerland

Re: [CURCL] This is how I got my CEFR level for Swedish

After some DL Swedish, which I didn't even finish before I started using my own resources, I am now two years later (after very irregular periods of lazy learning) talking live to two native Swedes. I was very scared before doing so, thinking I would need hours (that's how long a few seconds feel wh...
by Basler Biker
Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:51 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting Duome
Topic: What don't you like about the Duome forum?
Replies: 104
Views: 5257
Switzerland

Re: What don't you like about the Duome forum?

Note to everyone: as a co-founder of duome we aimed from the start at being 100% non-political discussions about languages and related topics, with a first goal to offer an alternative to the defunct DL-discussions, and give access to former discussions via an almost complete archive, known as the h...
by Basler Biker
Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:54 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting Duome
Topic: What don't you like about the Duome forum?
Replies: 104
Views: 5257
Switzerland

Re: What don't you like about the Duome forum?

The forum is hosted on servers in Russia. ... and it has in the past 10 years never been an issue for noone, nor the US people at the head of Duolingo, as they know where duome is located, and all we do here is with their permission. The only thing we are asked to do is not ACT against DL, but anyt...
by Basler Biker
Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:39 pm
Forum: Random Thoughts
Topic: ♫ Music is good for everything ♫
Replies: 386
Views: 1734702
Switzerland

Re: ♫ Music is good for everything ♫

@Basler Biker, actually I have been to Liège for a concert and many times to Antwerp, Verviers and Vosselsaar. Usually to see international bands, but also to see a Belgium band every now and then. There are two "festivals" near where I live, and which we can follow load and clear for fre...
by Basler Biker
Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:20 pm
Forum: Random Thoughts
Topic: ♫ Music is good for everything ♫
Replies: 386
Views: 1734702
Switzerland

Re: ♫ Music is good for everything ♫

And here is some music and facts from a tiny west-european country ... (some people think it's merely a city with 10 mio inhabitants, with suburbs well-known by tourists such as Brugge, Gent or Antwerp, with road signs changing in three languages along the way, so you better use gps coordinates to g...
by Basler Biker
Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:41 pm
Forum: Google
Topic: Google’s Google Gemini is now in everything, including better language learning
Replies: 2
Views: 409
Switzerland

Re: Google’s Google Gemini is now in everything, including better language learning

Google's incorporation of Gemini across various platforms marks a significant stride in language learning integration. The omnipresence of this technology holds promise for a more immersive and accessible language acquisition experience. I tried the "new" Gemini" from google, replaci...
by Basler Biker
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:30 am
Forum: Troubleshooting Duome
Topic: What don't you like about the Duome forum?
Replies: 104
Views: 5257
Switzerland

Re: What don't you like about the Duome forum?

I usualy just browse active toppics . There I wish: more of the forum crumb path to be revealed, right now it shows only the last order (e.g. "grammar", but that could be any language) a button "don't show discussions from this subforum in your activity list anymore" It's indeed...
by Basler Biker
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:03 am
Forum: Troubleshooting Duome
Topic: What don't you like about the Duome forum?
Replies: 104
Views: 5257
Switzerland

Re: Who do you think would make an ok moderator here ?

Hi everyone! ... They don't need moderators but rather good posts, interesting debates, telling us about personal experiences, etc. ... Many people have wasted time vainly, including me. Well, we had 114 users online just 4 months ago, now 417 with a peak of 576, so there are readers...even if top ...
by Basler Biker
Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:38 pm
Forum: Dutch
Topic: More help in Dutch needed!
Replies: 2
Views: 210
Switzerland

Re: More help in Dutch needed!

I took your sentences to deepl.com, translated them to English and back to Dutch: My versions of some of the sentences: 9: Ze gaven met z'n allen een groot feest. 11: Van harte gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag. 13: De verjaardag begon gisteren om vier uur. 15: Vroeger werden ze heel snel werkloos. 9...
by Basler Biker
Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:56 pm
Forum: Sentence discussions
Topic: Hon har inte lagat mat än. (en → sv) (id=...)
Replies: 0
Views: 901
Switzerland

Hon har inte lagat mat än. (en → sv) (id=...)

Hon har inte lagat mat än. en: She has not cooked yet. Archived discussions: https://duolingo.hobune.stream/comment/9765614 https://duolingo.hobune.stream/comment/13478206 Feel free to continue the discussion here on the Duome forum. Correct solutions: ↓ Hon har [ej / inte] lagat mat [än / ännu]. H...
by Basler Biker
Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:41 pm
Forum: Sentence discussions
Topic: Vart har hon gått? (en → sv) (id=...)
Replies: 0
Views: 385
Switzerland

Vart har hon gått? (en → sv) (id=...)

Vart har hon gått?

en: Where has she gone?

Archived discussion: https://duolingo.hobune.stream/comment/9954459
Feel free to continue the discussion here on the Duome forum.

Correct solutions:

Where has she gone?

DL's notation for alternative accepted answers is explained here.

by Basler Biker
Thu Dec 14, 2023 4:54 pm
Forum: Sentence discussions
Topic: Jag har haft fem hästar, men nu har jag bara tre. (id=...)
Replies: 0
Views: 329
Switzerland

Jag har haft fem hästar, men nu har jag bara tre. (id=...)

Jag har haft fem hästar, men nu har jag bara tre. en: I have had five horses, but now I only have three. Archived discussions: feel free to continue the discussion here on the Duome forum. https://duolingo.hobune.stream/comment/10780950 https://duolingo.hobune.stream/comment/10110187 Correct soluti...
by Basler Biker
Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:00 pm
Forum: Om svenska kultur
Topic: Glad Sankta Lucia
Replies: 5
Views: 513
Switzerland

Re: Glad Sankta Lucia

... 3 century years which have not been leap years: 1700, 1800 and 1900. The "leap year" corrections are needed to stay more or less in sync with the time needed by Earth to round the Sun and be on the same position of the orbit again. That takes approx. 365.2422 days. But with a leap yea...
by Basler Biker
Wed Dec 13, 2023 7:55 pm
Forum: Debates en general
Topic: Entrevista a Richard Vaughan
Replies: 4
Views: 1073
Switzerland

Re: Entrevista a Richard Vaughan

De hecho, escuchar es lo más importante para "sentir el idioma". la velocidad, los tonos y graves, los acentos y tensiones,... Sin embargo, hay un problema: si no está "de acuerdo" con la conversación o la historia, entonces se verá bloqueado de alguna manera para seguir escuchan...
by Basler Biker
Wed Dec 13, 2023 6:39 pm
Forum: Allgemeine Diskussion
Topic: Wie hast du dieses Forum gefunden?
Replies: 0
Views: 648
Switzerland

Wie hast du dieses Forum gefunden?

Wie hast du dieses Forum gefunden? (What brought you to this forum? => https://forum.duome.eu/viewtopic.php?p=90286 patfinegan Die Hinweise auf die Existenz dieses Forums sind auch sehr jung, oder? Jahrelang gab es kein Duome-Forum, man kannte nur die Statistiken und die Fortschrittsseiten... Heute...
by Basler Biker
Wed Dec 13, 2023 6:39 pm
Forum: Random Thoughts
Topic: Wie hast du dieses Forum gefunden? / What brought you to this forum?
Replies: 6
Views: 636
Switzerland

Re: What brought you to this forum?

Re: Wie hast du dieses Forum gefunden? https://forum.duome.eu/viewtopic.php?t=25345 patfinegan The evidence of the existence of this forum is also very recent, right? For years there was no Duome forum, only the statistics and the progress pages were known... Today you can find instructions if you ...
by Basler Biker
Wed Dec 13, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: Announcements by Duome
Topic: Google's AI in action to teach you any language
Replies: 4
Views: 804
Switzerland

Re: Google's AI in action to teach you any language

Another example from the Polish forum: The trick is to ask the best possible question, formulate what you want to be explained, and you'll get an answer, but always check the outcome...There is potentially always a bit (or even a lot) of truth in the explanantion by chatGPT... The better one formula...
by Basler Biker
Wed Dec 13, 2023 1:47 pm
Forum: Questions and answers
Topic: To vs jest
Replies: 9
Views: 642
Switzerland

Re: To vs jest

Hi Stasia and Ptolemy, Thanks for your explanations! It sounds like, generally speaking, the two versions are interchangeable. So, when I translate on Duo one way and get it wrong, I'm not necessarily actually getting it wrong, it's just that Duo is looking for the other way to translate it. Right?...
by Basler Biker
Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:07 am
Forum: Discussions
Topic: Beware False Cognates
Replies: 78
Views: 45195
Switzerland

Re: Beware False Cognates

Bae I don't/never would use this word in English, which means sweety or baby (feels like slang) but definitely won't after learning about the Danish word! In German you say "das ist bäh" to little children when they should not touch or eat something they have found. So "bäh" has...
by Basler Biker
Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:05 am
Forum: Random Thoughts
Topic: ♫ Music is good for everything ♫
Replies: 386
Views: 1734702
Switzerland

Re: ♫ Music is good for everything ♫

It is a paradox/dilemma... https://i.ibb.co/Kxvp0P7/Neighbors-playing-loud-music-at-3am.jpg if it's a favorite song it shouldn't be too much a dilemma. As a student every now and then we were woken up at 3 am by Jimmy Hendrix guitar solo's loud enough for the whole house-block and around to listen ...
by Basler Biker
Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:41 pm
Forum: Skriv bättre, stavning och stil
Topic: [SKRIV] Jag arbetar på biblioteket
Replies: 24
Views: 1622
Switzerland

Re: [SKRIV] Jag arbetar på biblioteket

Dear DUOM-AI, can you help me correcting this text, and explain why it is better? Absolutely, here is the revised text with corrections and explanations: Jag arbetar på biblioteket nu; det var min första dagen idag. Jag arbetar på biblioteket nu; det var min första dag idag. Correction: "dagen&...
by Basler Biker
Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:14 pm
Forum: Skriv bättre, stavning och stil
Topic: [SKRIV] have your text reviewed by DUOM-AI
Replies: 0
Views: 242
Switzerland

[SKRIV] have your text reviewed by DUOM-AI

let DUOM-AI review any text of you...post it here.

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by Basler Biker
Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:12 pm
Forum: Skriv bättre, stavning och stil
Topic: [SKRIV] Jag arbetar på biblioteket
Replies: 24
Views: 1622
Switzerland

Re: [SKRIV] Jag arbetar på biblioteket

DUOM-AI's story/text correction, with colors and strikethrough, as well as explanations about better style and/or grammar rules. Jag arbetar på biblioteket nu; det var min första dagen dag idag. Explanation: "dagen" should be "dag" because "dagen" is the definite form (...
by Basler Biker
Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:06 pm
Forum: Skriv bättre, stavning och stil
Topic: [SKRIV] Jag arbetar på biblioteket
Replies: 24
Views: 1622
Switzerland

Re: [SKRIV] Jag arbetar på biblioteket

Story reviewed by chatGPT....it takes a special and long "prompt" to get the required colors and strike-through ...but it can be done. chatGPT: Jag arbetar på biblioteket nu; det var min första dagen dag idag. Jag tror att detta jobb ska vara kan vara svårt, det finns mycket att jag behöve...
by Basler Biker
Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:42 pm
Forum: Skriv bättre, stavning och stil
Topic: [SKRIV] Jag arbetar på biblioteket
Replies: 24
Views: 1622
Switzerland

Re: [SKRIV] Jag arbetar på biblioteket

chatGPT: I'll mark only the corrected parts while leaving unchanged parts unmarked: Original: Jag arbetar på biblioteket nu; det var min första dagen idag. Corrected: Jag arbetar på biblioteket nu. Det var min första dag idag. (Changed: 'dagen' to 'dag') Original: Jag tror att detta jobb ska vara sv...
by Basler Biker
Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:27 pm
Forum: Language
Topic: German phrases, idioms and sayings
Replies: 2
Views: 412
Switzerland

Re: German phrases, idioms and sayings

Here is an interesting and exhaustive website for advanced learners. It is in German, so you should have quite a good knowledge of the language to use it: www.redensarten-index.de It includes information about a wide range of idioms, phrases and proverbs as well as many exercises for learners and n...
by Basler Biker
Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:12 pm
Forum: Skriv bättre, stavning och stil
Topic: [SKRIV] Jag arbetar på biblioteket
Replies: 24
Views: 1622
Switzerland

Re: [SKRIV] Jag arbetar på biblioteket

vänligen granska min text. Mvh. Greta. Jag arbetar på biblioteket nu; det var min första dagen idag. Jag tror att detta jobb ska vara svårt, det finns mycket att jag behöver lära. Men mina chefer är jättesnällt till mig , de ska lär mig . Idag presenterade de hur att hjälpa studenterna hyra böcker....
by Basler Biker
Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:41 pm
Forum: Lyssna, förstå bättre
Topic: Toner Och Tankar - ingvar Holmberg
Replies: 0
Views: 190
Switzerland

Toner Och Tankar - ingvar Holmberg

Toner Och Tankar 190903 by Ingvar Holmberg https://ia801001.us.archive.org/17/items/tonerochtankar190903/Toner%20%26%20tankar%20190903.ogg Toner & tankar 170 190903 (OBS! Stimanmälan юююю) IH-speaker: 12-13min Sånger: 24 min https://archive.org/details/tonerochtankar190903 Samtal med Paul Bjuren...
by Basler Biker
Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:31 pm
Forum: Hi Native, låter det naturligt?
Topic: Jag skulle ha tvättat om tvättstugan hade varit ledig.
Replies: 0
Views: 293
Switzerland

Jag skulle ha tvättat om tvättstugan hade varit ledig.

Jag skulle ha tvättat om tvättstugan hade varit ledig.
eller
Jag hade tvättat om tvättstugan varit ledig.

I would have done the washing if the washing room had been unoccupied.

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by Basler Biker
Tue Dec 12, 2023 6:23 pm
Forum: Uttryck och talesätt
Topic: Drygt / Strax under / Knappt / Nästan / Cirka , ...
Replies: 0
Views: 265
Switzerland

Drygt / Strax under / Knappt / Nästan / Cirka , ...

when speaking "about" some estimated number, (I use ' for thousands separator) drygt 20'000 = just over 20 thousand, slightly over 20'000 people, roughly 20'000 people strax under = just under, almost, nearly 20'000 knappt 20'000 personer deltog i firandet. / Almost 20'000 people took part...

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