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GrahamW

I did the Arabic course on the pre-snake tree. When I started, there were 31 Skills, and they were all essentially geared towards introducing the Arabic alphabet. I found that they were very good and enjoyable. Just as I completed that tree (June 2020), the course was expanded to 46 Skills. I was di...

GrahamW

Would using the word bank accomplish what you'd like?

GrahamW

SweNedGuy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 12:42 pm
By default, Swedish DL users need to learn from English, which is spoken by most of the population.

Probably not a huge problem, as many Scandinavians I've met speak better English than wot I cud.

GrahamW

And then the next level on the Path is "Describe Colors". But of course, the skill doesn't tell you how to "describe" colors, but rather how to use colors to describe things :-) I guess language science doesn't allow you to simply name a skill as "Colors". That wouldn't...

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@PtolemysXX Ah! Now I see it! Thanks! The Path has two different skills named "Talk About Possessions" and the same for "Describe Animals", so I wanted to see what the underlying Tree skills were. Apparently, Home 1 & Possessives and Zoo & Animals. I guess the learning sc...

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I just noticed that under Forums > Language Discussions > I Speak English > I'm Learning ... there doesn't appear to be a Swedish forum. If there isn't one that I can see, could one be created please? I actually came here to look for a listing of the Swedish Path and Tree, so could posts that descri...

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SweNedGuy Those numbers are significantly lower than my experience. My recollection is that the #1's in the leagues that I've been in are rarely below 10,000 and usually around 20,000, and occasionally way higher. This past week it was around 30,000. XP certainly isn't a good measure of learning pr...

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Many years ago, we had lunch in a cafe in France and I went to the bar to pay. I said "J'aimerais payer". The barman understood me perfectly, as he turned around, picked up a straw and handed it to me.

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Gentianopsis It's a sad state of affairs that you describe :-( But sadly, it's only those of us who have been around for a number of years that now remember how good Duolingo used to be. Newcomers, who seem to be Duo's focus, never knew that it was way better in the past, when you could make organi...

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I accidentally hit the “Super Duolingo “free trial this am. Boy, it pops up all over the place with this new snake! Just curious , does anyone know how that works? Will it just go back to my hearts in the three days or will I be joining for a year ? A lot of free trials do that , if you don’t cance...

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But then you need to develop something that is able to interprete the XP Unix timestamp data and make it available in a better readable (timezone) format. It is not in a human readable format like Duome renders it. I'd already made an Excel spreadsheet that interprets the Unix timestamp, but your c...

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Given the frequent issues that Doume is having in pulling current data from Duolingo, I've been manually getting the information about my recent practice sessions from my Extended User Profile. Is there any way that the code that Duome uses to produce the list of Recent Practice Sessions could be wr...

GrahamW

Whenever I see a complaint about hearts, I'm reminded about this article: https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002887326-What-are-Hearts- It contains the following: ===== Why do we have Hearts? Because it’s better for learning! Our research shows that if people advance too quickly on Du...

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@uralicnomad It's definitely not a sync issue, and is solely a Duolingo issue. My Duome XP total is exactly the sum of the XP of my languages in my Duolingo profile, whereas the Duolingo XP total is (currently) 112 XP smaller.

GrahamW

Yes, I noticed a discrepancy like this too over the last few days, but in my case my Duome total is greater than my Duolingo total. What is really strange is that it's the Duome total that is correct, whilst the Duolingo total is wrong. How do I know? Well, if I go to my Duolingo profile and add up ...

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That's weird! It doesn't make sense to stick the old tree at the end of the new snake. Doing Basics 1 & 2 after you've already done 62 skills?! Looks like Duo's AI has screwed up. Maybe this is the first cut at a revised CEFR snake, and the later skills will be merged back into the new snake in ...

GrahamW

When Duome doesn't update, I resort to looking at my Duolingo Extended User Profile: https://www.duolingo.com/users/grahamwarr Substitute your Duolingo userid to see yours. Near the top it contains the data that Duome uses to show the Raw data for the past couple of weeks, such as: { "skill_id&...

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I don't know what others are experiencing, but one of the really irritating things about Duo is the obvious lack of planning when implementing changes. There seem to have been path changes in various languages recently, and that's fine. However, my Chinese path changed on Tuesday and it's changed ag...

GrahamW

Paywall for me too. Nothing to see no matter how much I scroll. Must be location-dependent. Can you get a pdf of the article to post. Is that legal?

GrahamW

I found this spreadsheet (developed by Greg Bontrager) useful when I started Italian: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3A%2F%2Fstudent.fgcu.edu%2Fghbontra%2FItalian_Verb_Conjugator.xls&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK It gives a compact view of the tenses for whatever verb you specify. ...

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Also this "strength" feature is a thing that faded away, I think, if I remember well people complaining about it. I thought that I may have understood this quote, but @gmads has supported it (noting that it was a "useless feature".) Do you mean the feature that determined the st...

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Hmm, I haven' t taken much notice of the structure of the French tree, as I've only been doing practices. But when I first got the path, I had 199 Units, and now I have 219. I have no idea when that changed occurred, but that's par for the course for Duolingo's mushroom-powered tree/path/snake chang...

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@Corinnebelle It doesn't make sense that it's not there, does it? But sadly the EUP that Duolingo provides doesn't have that info, so there's nothing that Duome can do As per this: viewtopic.php?t=8713-show-language-in-r ... e-sessions

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Agree with Basler on the higher contrast being preferable. Personally I wouldn't use a "copy to clipboard" button, but I don't care so long as no data is removed, as I'm really happy with how it is now :-) BTW, I was simply pointing out a couple of aspects that would improve the descriptio...

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AlexanderN844702 You had me at IKEA :-) :-) But mentioning hearts reminds me of this article by Duolingo: https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002887326-What-are-Hearts- The most interesting point that Duolingo makes is: "Why do we have Hearts? Because it’s better for learning!&qu...

GrahamW

Or someone writes some code to interpret the data in the Extended User Profile and makes it publicly available Or available to Duome users. I've resorted to pawing through the data in the EUP as best I can

GrahamW

In the list of Recent Practice Sessions, Duome can only show the language for Skill lessons. Everything else has the skill_id field in the Extended User Profile set to null, so Duome shows the catch-all description of "stories/ challenges / checkpoints /etc.". However, some exercises with ...

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Given the problems that Duome is having with progress updates, I've delved into the Extended User Profile more than I wanted to. There is a datetime field associated with every exercise that one has done (recently) in Duolingo. I thought it would be a relatively simple matter to interpret this in hu...

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It's an extremely brief overview. The thing that I learned is that Lingodeer should sign up for Duolingo Math: "So to save you the effort, we have concluded the 7 best languages that might interest you. Read on to see why we think they are the best! Table of Contents Mandarin Japanese French Sp...

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@Shypharagy My related beef is that Duo gives us not even the slightest clue as to what the changes are when the snake/tree has been updated. How hard would that be?! The answer is that Duo simply doesn't care. How about adding some Change Management Scientists to their Learning Scientists?

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