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John Little

Not in my target language, I'm always getting that wrong. But in English. One of our Portuguese lessons with a real live teacher, in Brasil (on line), was to listen to a woman speaking. It's still not easy but this was made worse by the fact that, the woman we were listening to, was learning English...

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ah, did you mean "冇"? this is Cantonese, it means "no", but also appears in Mandarin. I don't know "yes" in Cantonese. [/quote] Blimey! Thanks, Ararat! That makes sense. But is it "Mao" or "Moh"? Or something else? Edit: No is "Mo" or &quo...

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是(shì) & 否(fǒu), the tone is different, yeah, but the pronunciation is also different. vâng & không, same tone but different pronunciation. proved. The sound I used to hear a lot or the sound that stuck in my mind, sounded like "Mao-wah". That same sound was said in two distinctly...

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recently, verbs and adjectives in Vietnamese with same pronunciation but different tones caught me off guard in the word matching exercise...... and I realize Vietnamese is more difficult on remembering the vocabulary instead of the grammatical rules. We had some Chinese neighbours a while back and...

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I quite often get caught out in the word pairing exercise where you need to match a word in one language with it's counterpart in the other. I always get caught by the English word "can", looking for "pode" or "consigo" (português for "can do") in the other co...

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@JPK You need to select a section. Click on above panel with the headline (title - Cefr A1-B2) and you'll be able able to see completed path units and levels (=round circles). It might not be self explanatory on the first look; wildly clicking around will most likely resolve the puzzle :-) Maybe yo...

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I seem to remember that in the old tree version you could go all the way through at level one then start again for the other levels. It was a choice between finishing each section to its final level before moving on or doing every section to the same level (if that makes sense). I wasn't aware that ...

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Isn’t there some kind of requirement to PM? A certain amount of posts when you first join. •10 maybe. Ive got a feeling that you are right but can't find anywhere that says it. But during my investigations, I noticed you have to hold your phone in landscape to see the "Private messages" t...

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Or if it's a one to one personal Conversation you can PM (personal message) from your profile page.

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I've searched and checked profiles on Duolingo and duome but can't find any reference. Where exactly have you seen it?

The shape on the left of the word looks like a location marker. Perhaps the person lives in SCARborough

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You're quite right. It's because you "pay" for legendary lessons and only get three hearts. That means you need to either subscribe or watch more adverts to top up your gems. I used nearly all my gems to make my whole course legendary and was annoyed when they changed it. I had finished th...

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Doing Duolingo for a couple of years has made us wonder about a lot of what the article talks about. I only really skimmed through it but I didn't notice a mention of the influence of printing on standard spelling (although it may be there). A lot of the weird spelling comes from mistakes that stuck...

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My wife and I once found ourselves in exactly the same league. This week we tried an experiment to see if we could make it happen again. We both started the week at the same time with the same story and pressed the "continue" button" together after a countdown. I found myself in an ea...

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Because our daughter-in-law is Brazilian and we keep in touch with her parents and our 3 year old grandson is learning English and Portuguese

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Hello all I'm William. I would like to ask for your advice regarding my issues. Do you have any tips for reducing stress in the long term? Thank you in advance. Are we talking about a form of "stage fright"? Sitting with your feet flat on the floor and systematically relaxing every bit of...

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Not sure if I believe this but if it's a joke, they went to a lot of trouble!

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This is not an April 1st joke: I came in first in the diamond league with mere 1853 XP's: diamond league ending 20240331.png Now, here is the challenge: can anyone boast winning a fully staffed diamond leaugue with fewer points? Now, that's what I like to see! I've just managed to drop out of the d...

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PtolemysXX wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:42 am
The news mentions though that it will be possible to pay with self made coins that users need do cut out of thick cardboard, paint a green owl on each them (1 coin = 1 gem) and mail in to Duolingo's headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA.

No fooling you!

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1/4/24

thought the whole ethos of Duolingo was to promote language learning for free! I didn't mind a few ads but I think it's outrageous that all the work put in by all those volunteers is about to exploited big time! Well I for one won't be paying!

John Little

Weirdly, Friday 13th has been a lucky day for me. And I don't belong to the "Dark Side"

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I have noticed similar glitches but they normally sort themselves out. Eventually.

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Jaruna Cimrman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:18 pm
Thank you for the congratulations. @John Little

Thanks John, but there was almost no luck in this result of my efforts. It was calculated exactly according to the plan - breakdown: how many lessons for how much xp. Mostly it was 100 xp daily.

Blimey! Then double congratulations!

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I think there must have been an element of luck. But well done. Congratulations!

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Across porta 5. leao 7. ola 8. pegar? ova 13. 14. massa Down: 1. almoco 2. sapato 6. 8. 9. 11. Not good at the spoiler - hidden stuff. Mines a bit tweaked. Ha! You're having the same paragraph numbering problem! So annoying! It happened to me again and I had to renumber the lists with dashes rather...

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image_2024-03-28_151312462.png Across: 3-Door 5-Lion 7-Helo 8-To the (plural) 10-Take or drink 11-Egg 13-Over there 14-Scene 15-Pasta Down 1-Lunch 2-Shoe 4-Roof 6-Time 8-I would love 9-Exits 11-Cow Answers Across: 3-Door = Porta 5-Lion = Leao 7-Helo = Ola 8-To the (plural) = Aos 10-Take or drink = ...

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Fleet (of ships)
Frota ( português)

Damn! We overlapped but you got there first!

XeO3 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:27 pm
flotilă
(Romanian)
flotilla

So...

Convoy
Comboio

John Little

Pretty cool that you were able to make one @John Little It was just an experiment to see if it could be done and, moreover, could be done by me. It was prompted by Explorers's crossword post and I just found words that fitted a (nearly) symmetrical grid - as crosswords are supposed to be I used &qu...

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Damn! There seems to be some sort of paragraph numbering altering my numbers. It looks correct when I edit but changes the numbers to sequential numbers when I submit! I had to change the numbers from "1. ". To "1-" "2. ". To "2-" Blooming nuisance this clever...

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Got it! Here it's just "[ spoil ]".

So, the answers (which Explorer could check because I used Bing for the definition.)

► Show Spoiler

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image_2024-03-24_111958026.png Hopefully that is the crossword grid. If it works, I'll edit the post with the clues. Fingers crossed :) Yipee! It seems to work! So Across: 1-Was 3-Boy 4-Have 6-Look 8-Possession (If I own) Down: 1-Is 2-Shoe 5-Rocks 7-Mother Answers {spoiler] Answer [/spoiler] The sp...

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