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Je me rappelle du livre 'Brave new world' de 'Aldous Huxley' où le même adjectif a été utilisé pour décrire une femme. C'était bien la version anglaise. Ce livre date de l' année 1932. La déscription 'pneumatique' a, d'après moi, toujours été controversiel, peu importe la langue ou l'année de public...

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This blog : How to make a Gold Duolingo Tree describes Duolingo by the end of 2014. This was before crowns were introduced to the tree. Skill strength was a meaningful indicator back then. Strength lost its significance after the introduction of crowns and ended up being counterproductive. By now it...

Here's my avatar with his daily fable told in English:

but the original is told in Dutch, where it is called 'Fabeltjeskrant':

According to what I have read on the forum for Portuguese speakers, Duo now is advising against using your photo as an avatar. As usual, privacy reasons are the pretext. Future releases may ban photos allowing to identify users. So what is your avatar: The photo in DL shows me ... The photo in DL sh...

Today it has been Lin who was to be found 7 times within lessons (apparently stories don't count). The first rounds of any unit contain many questions where hardly any of the cartoon characters show up (a lot of multiple choice vocab matching). You have the best chance with the rounds towards the en...

I've been seeing that for a while. But only for streaks that are a year or longer. That is exact. Streaks are mentioned in completed years. The new gamification element has now opened up for website users and it is called 'the streak society'. A little menu opens up when hovering over your streak s...

(...) It then gets in the wrong list and ends up on top, since it has many more skills than the Pt from Es. Was this just an example? The /es/pt table doesn't have any 91 skills entry! The first wrong entries with too high numbers come from other courses. Yes indeed, just an example of a previous o...

My best guess is that Duolingo mislabels some courses. A Portuguese from English course gets labelled as 'Portuguese from Spanish'. It then gets in the wrong list and ends up on top, since it has many more skills than the Pt from Es. DuoMe only reads the information records from the notably error pr...

You could always check the streak length in the weekly leaderboard by clicking any profile https://i.imgur.com/fBGTs0n.jpg Now Duolingo makes it really easy. The streak (in number of completed years) is added to names in the leaderboard. Are you among rookies or among seasoned DL learners? Just chec...

Los diez cursos de DuoLingo desde el español se quedan reducidos a ocho. En el menú ya no figuran el Esperanto ni tampoco el Guaraní. Según una comunicación de Duolingo, ya no soportan aquellos cursos; es decir ya no hay ayuda para los usuarios. ¿Encontrarás mucha ayuda en los demas cursos? Sin emba...

Simon wrote the following in the DE-FR forum, but there seems to be no one who can help. That's why I'm now posting the question here. "He came even though he was sick". This sentence in the lesson "Gerund" makes me wonder. The sample solution translates this sentence as: "...

Mireille Mathieu: Mille colombes

(If you are wondering where the main musical theme comes from: check out 'Casta Diva' composed by Vincenzo Bellini)

Butterfly in Arabic: فراشة Pronunciation: farasha The closest I can find is "farfalla" in Italian. Only a beginner in Italian, but I was warned on DL forum to be careful using this word, it has a sexual connotation. Someone said they liked a person's butterfly (tattoo)and well... The culi...

LICA98 wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 3:09 pm

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o cachorro not el

Thanks. I should have thought about it.
O mesmo para 'o cão' no Português Europeo e 'o can' no Galego.

'Cat' sounds quite similar in many European languages : https://forum.duome.eu/viewtopic.php?t=2876 Though the Romanian word for dog (câine) comes from Latin, cat (pisică ) seemingly does not. At the other hand, 'dog' has quite some variation in Romance languages: Spanish: el perro Standard Catalan...

Duolingo made a blog on this variety of the word for butterfly in different languages I started the thread with some of the few similarities (since variety is the rule, rather than the exception). In Dutch there is quite some dialectal variation for the word. One variant is 'schoenlapper' (translate...

The Duolingo team published a blog on the functioning of leaderboards and the selection of participants.

They don't show the back of their tongue, but most of the observations covered in this thread are being confirmed.

For me, English is a foreign language that I am learning and I often search for synonyms for different words so that one word can be replaced by another. 🙂 .... and here are some suggestions: „Nice” - beautiful, pretty, lovey, terrific, amazing. We use this adjective very often when talking about a...

I notice that the Busuu annual subscription is considerably less expensive in the EU than Duolingo SUPER. The most popular BUSUU plan costs €3.50 per month or €41.94 billed annually. (let's round it to €42 per year). The platform is a lot better than is DL with videos with real speakers (not synthes...

Men jeg bemærker også, at flere tråde i dette forum vedrører tyskkurset fra hollandsk

(But I also notice that several threads on this forum pertain to the German course from Dutch. Our collective knowledge of Danish must be extremely poor indeed.)

666: the infernal streak?

Welcome in the club ...

Congratulations. You have been an early adopter of DuoLingo. You have seen it grow and change. There still is some 'low hanging fruit' left. French and Catalan (if you don't speak any of them yet); Dutch (easy after learning German and English); Swedish (the Nordic language course available also fro...

People tend to stick to their habits, whether good or bad. The DL app is chosen for convenience, rather than the website version. The app adds gamification features boosting your XP earnings. You get gems... but are evicted after you run out of hearts for the day. On the website there are no hearts ...

I think they've taken away the awarding of lingots if you met your daily goal on the web. That's fine by me now that you can get them by achieving daily quests. I can't think of any use for stating a daily goal on your settings. I don't think daily quests use it to compose your daily list of quests...

Some quests are cumbersome (such as do 12 lessons with speaking exercises). Some lessons have them, others don't. Legendary challenges don't feature any speaking exercises. If you have a practice tab you should have the option to do speaking or listening exercices allowing to fulfill your quest. I ...

For several weeks I have been wondering what 'Daily Quests' were about. "Some new DL gizmo only available on the app", was my first thought. Only this very week Daily quests show up on the website as well. The same quests may show up for some days in a row or they may change. https://i.img...

M'n moeder heeft een ontzettend e lekkere maaltijd gekookt. He, bah, wie heeft dit afschuwelijk vies ontbijt gemaakt ? Hans heeft vandaag gezellig gewandel d in het bos. Anna heeft zo'n interes s ante foto gemaakt. Hebben jullie dit vieze avondeten ge klaargemaakt? Ik hou niet erg veel niet van ham....

Afin de supprimer un cours dans une langue d'instruction, il faut evidemment en avoir un. Sinon le choix de la langue d'instruction n'a pas d'effet. Après avoir éliminé un cours que tu souhaitais garder, tu peux le recommencer avec une évaluation de niveau. Contrairement à l'arbre, le sentier (ou le...

About old stories: I remember having seen on the DL forum quite a few links of old stories, which were segments from novels by E.A. Poe. However the titles were in Spanish rather than in English. As I review the current stories in the courses having them: they are always in the instruction language...