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This was shared on Discord a few days ago: 100 of the best (and weirdest) duolingo sentences ever . Some of the sentences featured (especially the Italian ones) are not as weird or memorable as one would expect from such a list. "Le mie scarpe sono elettriche?" (Are my shoes electric?) wou...

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In Spanish we have a very good intransitive verb for cases like this: "encantar." When used intransitively, this verb means: "to like very much." -- me encanta cuando sonríes (I love it when you smile) -- me encantas cuando sonríes (you enchant me when you smile) Maybe the equiv...

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With that change, however, the sense or meaning of the sentence is changed. I love it when... this describes the inner feeling caused in the speaker, but this feeling is not directed toward anyone, just like saying, "I feel sad" (as opposed to saying, "I feel sad for you") I lov...

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While not grammatically or semantically wrong, this sentence is yet another direct translation from English that no Italian would utter. In this instance, "especially" should have been translated as " particolarmente ": È particolarmente difficile per gente come me , which is the...

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I just want to let learners know that "specialmente", the default translation of the English "especially" on DL, while not wrong, is less common than "soprattutto".

So, when you translate "especially", go for "soprattutto" first.

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This use of "amare" is a calque from English, which is utterly unnatural in Italian.
To make it sound (more) natural, you have to add a direct object and change the verb to "adorare": Ti adoro quando sorridi.

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Yes, you're right. It should be "bravo/a" for people.

(And, taking it one step further, "medico" would be more natural than "dottore")

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well the point is that German and Russian are already available for English speakers so it would make more sense to prioritize languages that aren't yet available for any speakers As I said, businesses look at the number of people who will buy their products. A course of a major language from a non...

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it's not about how many people are gonna learn in total but rather how widely it will be available, like Chinese might be more spoken but it's spoken only in 1 place whereas English is spoken all around the world (and Koreans can already learn Mandarin from English) Duolingo is a business, and busi...

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they should prioritize courses from English (or teaching English) because that's by far the most widely spoken language if you do a course from English it's available to people all around the world whereas Swedish for Russian or French for Turkish has a very limited audience Since your argument rev...

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I wish they would stop focusing on courses with no English involved (like Swedish from Russian wtf) and instead added the missing European national languages (Bulgarian, Slovak, Slovene, Albanian, and the Baltic countries' languages) 🤬 The world and DL do not revolve just around Europe. Why should ...

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I've just finished a Duolingo session and at some point the Duome button stopped working properly (I'm in Edge in case it's relevant). At first it was working as intended, but after a while, instead of creating a post with the sentence I just did and from which I clicked the button, it created a dis...

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I've entered "I took down his phone number", but the phrasal verb "take down" has been rejected.

"Take something down" perfectly conveys the meaning of "prendere nota di qualcosa".

Reported.

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The word order of the Italian sentence is unnatural. It should be "Le riviste sono disponibili soltanto in francese".

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Could you give a couple of example sentences with "avere (a) che fare con" so that we understand better in what context it sounds more natural? : ) "Non so cosa studi di preciso, ma so che ha a che fare con la finanza" = I don't know exactly what s/he studies, but I know it's so...

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Yes! I, too, remember that post. My impression is that Duolingo just ran random sentences through an automatic translator back in 2012, when Google translate was not as good as it is now, which explains the amount of (wrong) literal and clumsy translations in both English and Italian sentences.

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Italian has one word for "basketball player", cestista (from "cesto" = basket).

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A bad translation of the article usage. In Italian you don't use an indefinite article in sentences like this exercise, but a definite one: " L' allenatore è come un genitore per i giocatori". I get that in English you use the indefinite article, but the usage of articles is different in I...

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Kind of like how I feel about my English sometimes. The more vocabulary I learn, the less fluent I get, it seems. I'm under the impression that when my vocabulary was more limited I was able to express myself in a more confident fashion, words and expressions would come to mind more quickly and in a...

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La risposta non dovrebbe essere "Ihr trinkt den Orangensaft" ? Questo è quello che dicono tutti sul Duolingo SD. Effettivamente se la frase di partenza in italiano contiene l'articolo determinativo, anche la traduzione tedesca dovrebbe usarlo, ed è assurdo che venga segnata come errata. I...

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Yes, it should indeed.

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The article before "metà" is totally unnecessary. We just say "metà di....". Also, "avere a che fare con" is a clumsy translation of "to deal with" in this context; a better translation in proper Italian would be "Metà della popolazione deve fronteggiare ...

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Contrary to what DL makes out (and quite a few people in the SD have been misled), this is not idiomatic. In Italian we say "errori".
As a matter of fact "fallimento" is much less used than "failure" is in English.

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I think you'd have better luck getting answers from US teenagers on Discord rather than on a traditional forum. Does anyone know what is the declension order in this book -- "Latin for Americans" by B. L. Ullman ? From its table of contents , it looks like it's: nominative, accusative, gen...

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Duolingo accepts "al tempo stesso", "allo stesso tempo" and "contemporaneamente" as translations of "zugleich". Another synonym (curretly rejected) is "al contempo", which imo is no less common than the first two phrases. I'm sharing this for German ...

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Duolingo si ostina a non voler accettare "scolari", che è l'equivalente esatto di Schüler ; entrambi derivano da "scuola" nelle rispettive lingue. :gb: "Scolari" (pupils, literally 'schoolers') is etymologically the most precise translation of Schüler . Both words are d...

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Mi chiedevo se "dormirci sopra" fosse inteso qui nel senso di "dormire fisicamente sopra a qualcosa" oppure il modo di dire. Visto che con Duolingo non si sa mai, mi sono documentata per sicurezza. "Darauf" qui significa "sopra un qualcosa", mentre per l'espre...

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Io e altri utenti ci siamo chiesti nei commenti perché "alleine" e non "allein", visto che avrebbe funzione predicativa. :gb: I wonder whether "allein" could work too. People in the sentence discussion wondered why it's "alleine" instead of "allein",...

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English from Italian: meh (no tips; bad Italian)
Italian from English: mediocre to bad (too many errors in Italian to my liking)
German from Italian: bad (too many errors; also no tips)
German from English: I'm doing the old tree, which seems OK

edit: expanded a bit

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A heads-up to English speakers: in Italian we say "La chiamata è di tua madre"; we use a different preposition. Prepositions are one of the most difficult aspects to master in a language, as they is no 1:1 match between two languages. This is one of the too many instances in which Duolingo...

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Re: Amo quando sorridi, specialmente se il motivo sono io. (en → it)

Re: Amo quando sorridi, specialmente se il motivo sono io. (en → it)

Re: È specialmente difficile per gente come me. (en → it)

Re: Si sente specialmente di notte. (en → it)

Re: Amo quando sorridi, specialmente se il motivo sono io. (en → it)

Re: Sarei un buon dottore

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Re: Ho preso nota del numero di telefono. (en → it)

Re: Le riviste sono soltanto disponibili in francese. (en → it)

Re: La metà della popolazione ha a che fare con la povertà. (en → it)

Re: La metà della popolazione ha a che fare con la povertà. (en → it)

Re: The basketball player jumps. (it → en)

Re: A coach is like a parent for the players. (it → en)

Re: Hitting a wall

Re: Ihr trinkt Orangensaft. (it → de)

Re: È una azione molto strana, oltretutto. (en → it)

Re: La metà della popolazione ha a che fare con la povertà. (en → it)

Re: Possiamo imparare dai fallimenti. (en → it)

Re: [Question] Declension Order

Re: Er ist Bauer und Lehrer zugleich. (it → de)

Re: Bisher sind alle Schüler Jungen. (it → de)

Re: Il cane ci dorme sopra. (it → de)

Re: Mittlerweile bist du alleine. (it → de)

Re: Quality of the duolingo courses

Re: The call is from your mother. (it → en)