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Blue Peter fans will know that "sticky back plastic" is a generic form of "sellotape" which, interestingly enough, is "durex" in Brasil. Edit: actually, I think the tape in that advert would be "Scotch" tape in the UK. I recognise the tartan. Transliterated i...

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In post-Soviet countries, "ксерокс" - "xerox" is used to any copy machine, even the word often means just "a copy", and with appropriate verbal suffixes as a verb. Also "pampers" for any kind of disposable diapers. In Polish, "rower" means "bicy...

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Бавовна Literally cotton , from German Baumwolle or Polish bawełna . Compare wool-Wolle-wełna-вовна . But why? It has been for a few years that Russian Newspeak uses mandatory euphemisms to mention undesirable events or processes. One of them is хлопо́к — a clap instead of explosion (notice the acc...

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First time I was forcedly switched to the snake, I observed that it skipped 14 German skills, and the progress on the snake was marked on Duome as getting to L2 (red) — from L0 on the initial (recently extended) tree, while I already had all the tree up to the end at L1 (blue), and while I were doin...

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You can do a story in less than 5 min—they're very tolerant to mistakes—and get 30 XP on a desktop (web), say 360 XP in an hour, and 3 hours a day is not so big a deal. And if you're doing different stories, you even can learn something in process.

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Interesting! So English has evolved from a pidgin into a full fledged language. It has the ability to describe things in precise detail in flowery language. No doubt Russian is also such a language. Somehow, I think of a language as something that has one particular source. But this shows there are...

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[mention]Stasia[/mention] Some of those lower status languages are actually quite amazing in structure and so forth. They are far more intricate and unique than English, obviously since English is a pidgin. English is not a pidgin sensu stricto , because it's a native language for half a billion pe...

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Шансів дуже мало.
Дуолінго не вважає такі курси потенційно прибутковими, і не витрачатиме гроші на їх створення.

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www-internal is back now!
Who knows for how long....

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Good news, guys! www-internal is back!

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Then please explain how can it be that I have finished the Spanish tree fully to L4 and still have 3 units to go on the snake? It's because of the down "rounding" - To be sure the user wouldn't lose anything. It's a different course structure. I don't know what you mean under "down r...

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Good news, guys! www-internal is back!

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DaliborNovy wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:53 am
There is no new content in the snake.

How can you be sure of it? Do you have inside information?
Then please explain how can it be that I have finished the Spanish tree fully to L4 and still have 3 units to go on the snake?

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@Enzfj2 https://duome.eu/YourUsername/progress is good for practicing a completed (or at least almost completed) course. You must have 3 or more crowns. Otherwise, you will end up on the "snake" page. The snake is usable for new courses. Thank Goodness, it can be bypassed - you can make t...

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@Enzfj2 This is quite interesting. I was listening to someone who was a native of northern Russian in the Sakha region and their language sounded somewhat like Finnish. But Wikipedia says that Sakha/Yakut is a Turkic language. However, in the past Hungarian also was classified as a Turkic, but now ...

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It was a note for @Enzfj2 . Meaning - Completing Legendary lessons for free when you don't have lingots, using Duome or direct addresses (eg. https://www.duolingo.com/skill/en/Plurals - where "Plurals" is a five-crown skill). Look back a few pages. Thanks, Dalibor, I have so many lingots ...

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@SansEspoir , @Corinnebelle , @Gentianopsis
To go to practice, you may click the crown next to the skill icon both on the Tree and on the Skills list

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@Apogee How was Russian artificially created? Is that like English, a language made from scrambled "eggs" a smattering of other languages all mixed together? Yes, the analogy is quite sound, even for the names of the country and language. The name of Русь /Rus'/ referred to the lands whic...

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The workaround www-internal.duolingo.com doesn't work anymore, at least for me: when I try to open a lesson, it shows some trivia and flips back to the home page. Lessons from L4 (red) an L5 (gold) can still be accessed from duome/username/progress Tree or Skills, the Tree opens the lesson on the de...

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And Österreich is known everywhere as Austria, but Rakousko in Czech and Rakúsko in Slovak

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Other European countries: — Suomi is known everywhere under its Swedish name of Finland — Italy is Włochy in Polish and Olaszország in Hungarian — Poland is Lengyelország in Hungarian, Lenkija in Lithuanian and Lehistan in Armenian — Russia is Venäjä in Finnish, Venemaa in Estonian and Krievija in L...

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Germany has quite wide variety of names: — Germania in Italian and Romanian right from Latin, obvious English, Greek and Russian cognates — Alemania with some variations in other Romance languages, including French Allemagne — Německo in Czech, Niemcy in Polish and similar in other Slavic languages,...

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Somewhere in the now-closed Duolingo forum I read that (in theory) there is an option in the Duo engine to specify the voice as male, female or kid's. But it should be set manually for each sentence, otherwise it's random. However I don't hear any special conformity even in the most elaborated cours...

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@Enzfj2 A team of people trying to win a place in a league? I wonder if they are doing it for that, or if there is a situation where there is only one device but multiple people who want to use that device and instead of having separate accounts they use one account? Some lessons were done just in ...

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Look at the raw data of the top name of the 'Crowns Hall of Fame': each separate line looks quite normal, like some 2-3 minutes from the previous one, but! It goes round the clock, without any significant breaks, from 2022-11-13 17:06 until now (2022-11-14 14:09), with some breaks from Nov. 2 to 13,...

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... І всі мови
Слав’янського люду —
Всі знаєте. А своєї
Дас[т]ьбі... Колись будем
І по-своєму глаголать,
Як німець покаже
Та до того й історію
Нашу нам розкаже...
Т.Г.Шевченко

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"Дім там" – answers the question "Де дім?" = "Where is the house/home?" "There is a house" can be translated "Є дім." Sounds strange without any description (place, kind, size etc.) For "There is a house" you would just flip the word order...

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But deliver us from the Russians, who know better how to speak Ukrainian than the Ukrainians themselves...

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Russian ы is the Ukrainian и Ukrainian і is the Russian и And the letter й is a bit different. And the letter ї are also Ukrainian only Russian and Ukrainian sounds are not exactly matched, they can be ranged like this: (ukr) і – (rus) и – (ukr) и – ы i.e. Russian и is somewhere between Ukrainian і...

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