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@PtolemysXX, I think there were too many battles to talk about every one in history class.

Even if I'm not learning or dabbling with Greek, I found this article quite interesting.

https://greekreporter.com/2024/04/08/un ... -language/

Olly Richards had this post in his blog / newsletter and I think it might help beginners. Most of this I already figured out, but still it is good have this at hand.

https://storylearning.com/learn/russian ... n-cognates

vojaĝo (Esperanto)

journey / trip

Try to find out what is causing your stress, than you can try to work on reducing.

Beside that, everybody is different. For some a long walk is best, for someone else it's a good workout. For me it's a good concert... Or a good book.
For many it's meditation, as Meli578588 said, for me it's not.

Convoy....

nákladní vozidlo (Czech)

truck

Самолёт (Russian)

plane / airplane

Sometimes a Russian word just won't stick.... I write it on a piece of paper in big bold letters and stick it somewhere in my apartment where I see it several times a day. Usually that works to remember it after a few days.

It really looks like Katze... (die / German)

cat

I also read everything, if it's not several pages, as long as it's a language I know. But it might happen that I'm in a rush and want to answer immediately, in that case I state that I haven't read everything due to a lack of time before I write the reply.

Sometimes we just have to accept what Duo expects. I agree with Monique Marie, there nothing wrong. I experience the same with Russian which has a more flexible word order than German. We all have to deal with it!

Feel free to ask whenever you encounter problems with sentences in Duo.

Neko (Japanese)

cat

A friends cat was named Whisky.

To me the scandal is that nobody realized the mistake before it was published! Yes, she made a mistake, but it's not her profession to overdo photos. And if you worked on something for awhile you overlook things easily.

Rum (der / German)

rhum

Rumb looks similar and after too much rhum, navigating is getting harder.

@XeO3, that's a tough one... To keep this going, I offer...

Путешествие (Russian)

travel, journey, trip

An old one, but still good. The title describes my week quite well....

Kopi (Indonesian)

Coffee

Hm, sounds a bit like Karettschildkröte.... Well, the first part of the word. Okay, so it's...

Schildkröte, die (German)

Turtle

перья (Russian)

feather

In 2007 this song won the ESC. It's one of the songs which I remembered vividly. This is a video done in 2020.

Glucke (German)

sitting hen

Mainly because of the way the Icelandic word sounds...

ararat-tempest wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:59 am

IceVajal wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:39 am

ŝancon / okazo (Esperanto)

chance

shouldn't it be "ŝanco"?

Yes, that's right. Stupid mistake. Thanks mentioning it!

@HeyMarlana, in Germany Orange as well as Apfelsine are used. So I always have to make sure that in Dutch I use sinaasappel. So, even if its about different languages, we both have a 'problem' with a word with has the same meaning.

platenspeler (Dutch)

turntable / record player

@Basler Biker, thanks for the information and B&B offer. It's just not my kind of music. And I never liked the big festival, I prefer clubs up to 1,500-2,000 people. Vosselsaar and Verviers have small clubs with a great atmosphere.

It's true, sometimes you can just try to remember what Duolingo will accept. It's annoying.