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SweNedGuy

Couch Polyglot Laura: YouTube canal: https://www.youtube.com/@CouchPolyglot Speaking 8 languages in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8y1ky-i6NI Seven of them are either Germanic or Romance languages, Russian being the only exception. Luca Lampariello is another prolific polyglot: https:/...

SweNedGuy

On your profile screen you see your 'followers' in two sections: the 'friends' are the section of users you follow back. They are sorted by decreasing XP. A few are making far higher average XP every day, while the majority is comparable or lower. If you are active on Tuesday, you will most likely b...

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The Duolingo Portuguese Podcasts are normally meant for Portuguese speakers learning English. Yet, if you have finished the Portuguese course and you are considering what additional sources might be within reach, these DuoLingo Podcasts are definitely something to try. Most of the talking is done by...

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Now we are five months later. I am using the DL website version and ultimately I 'm teamed up for the first friend quest. Sending a gift is OK while your partner is on-line. The XP double may have expired before getting used ... unless the gift is activated only after your friend quest partner start...

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Five hearts only allows four 'errors'. Those include 'forced errors' (using tennis terminology). You wrote down a better synonym than 'the one handle fits all' suggestion of DL? That is penalized with losing a heart. Nevertheless I still got the full 15XP with a 94% deemed accuracy after that one. O...

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Is the exclamation mark! : -.-.--
I found it in the sentences but not in the code book.

The sign .-.--- occurs only once at the end of a sentence.
Can't figure out what sign is meant.

SweNedGuy

Conversation in CATALAN and OCCITAN with Gabrièu: Can you understand Occitan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwiZGtTD6d0 Laura (channel 'Couch polyglot') is talking in Catalan with Gabrièu answering in Occitan. It seems mutually intelligible. Occitan sounds a little more 'melodic' to me, like Catal...

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Language app benchmarks

Videos from the first post compare Busuu to Duolingo.
The first video dates from a year ago. Meanwhile Duolingo got worse ...
Same accounts for the second one.

SweNedGuy

You ' re fluent when: you prefer watching a foreign movie in the original version rather than dubbed and/or you don't read the subtitles.

SweNedGuy

Steve Kaufmann (Canadian):
https://www.youtube.com/@Thelinguist
Steve talks in 20 languages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GofAopYUZ54

SweNedGuy

I'm not really looking forward to the day when those badges are also going to be forced onto website users.

The hearts and the gems rip off still give me a bad smell in the mouth.

SweNedGuy

Lately I seemed to be unable to return to the beginning of the path to complete some legendary units to which new material had been added (hence the legendary blue had gone). But I was unable to return below a particular threshold. I soon realized the path is now sectioned. The tree opens at the sec...

SweNedGuy

It has taken me about 14 months to get to a 1111 days streak where you were long ago, but in the end I made it.

A nice coincidence is that my 'diamond league streak' now stands at 123 weeks.

SweNedGuy

check out : https://www.duolingo.com/duocon The stream will appear on October 11, 2023. 5:00 London Very early for us European. We are probably not the target group There is something awkward with their timing schedule. Unless the streams are not broadcasted simultaneously, 12:00 in NY should rathe...

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For september, I am now required to complete 50 challenges. This is starting to feel like slavery...

... add a very competitive league and I need all the magic I can think of just to stay in Diamond.

(Además Duo me lo pide todo en cristiano otra vez)

SweNedGuy

Añadí el curso de español para lusófonos, después de terminar el curso de portugués para hispanohablantes. En cuanto a los ejercicios de pronunciación: L a s _ f r a s e s _ s o n _ l e í d a s _ a _ v e l o c i d a d _ d e _ c a r a c o l. Repito a un ritmo normal, con acento castellano peninsular ...

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DuoMe Forum membership is a first step, active participation is yet another one. As with most forums and social network discussion groups, active participation is limited to a fairly modest fraction of total members. Using the 22 Aug 2023 data as above (8490 subscriptions) and sorting the member lis...

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On the DuoLingo (official) blog, Cindy Bianco also has observed that PT got more traction lately:

https://blog.duolingo.com/2023-top-10-languages/

PT jumped ahead two places in the top-10: from 10 to 8 in terms of number of new enrollments. (Now leaving behind Russian, Hindi and Chinese).

SweNedGuy

I remember having seen the Psittacus initiative mentioned on here: It is an elementary free software allowing to create lessons. But creating even one single lesson will be time consuming; creating a course requires a lot of volunteers and much coordination to avoid an incoherent set of lessons whic...

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How much more do we need before cancelling our DuoLingo account and replacing it by something better? Is there anything better? If so, please tell us. Three better alternatives to duolingo, according to John Ross from Test Prep Insight https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RzpgzyCZsUs Olly Richardson's id...

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My lingots got downgraded to gems on Monday. (I am exclusively using the website). You get about twice as many gems, but a legendary lessons costs ten times more gems (100 against 10 lingots). This hold-up effectively limits your capabilities for continuing after ending a course on the path. As ment...

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L'omission de l'article défini n'est pas rare en italien. Autant: Elle est dans la cuisine Elle est à la cuisine Elle est en cuisine (même si la première phrase est préféree) se traduisent par "Lei è in cucina". Autre exemple: à l'école -> a scuola Tu pourrais aussi regarder le site: "...

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For English: the dialects spoken in the UK were not mentioned (because there are too many of them). The UK 'received pronunciation' (RP) is familiar to everybody but spoken by only few. Celtic languages and Scots are not even considered here. Variants of English are developing in countries where Eng...

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Thanks to the open architecture (the DuoMe forum can be searched even when not logged in) new users keep finding their way. The forum kickstarted when the DL-forum was still alive. On 9 February 2022 (Day 1), 44 inaugural adopters joined. By Valentine Day, 285 early adopters had found their way to t...

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Duo sent me a reminder tonight in Spanish, since I have been learning Portuguese from Spanish lately.

This also coincides with my 120 weeks Diamond league streak.

SweNedGuy

Oof! I have 55 pages! Did you know there's something called Ranks on Duome which gives people a number under their profile picture who have contributed a lot of posts to the forum? Like this: https://forum.duome.eu/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=137-eranbarlev Thanks, I was aware of this. Bu...

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The number of active learners as observed by DuoMe has risen not only for Portuguese. I make the comparison with Spanish from English. 1) Spanish from English: Note: the March 2022 data were revised in Aug 2022 to include the L25 data. DuoLingo mentions: 28.5 M learners Active learners: 185214 Owls:...

SweNedGuy

On the Life & Language Proboard forum, I reported on the hack
I don't use the same logon name, but I do use the same avatar. I'm not sure you can read over there without registering.

Just perhaps: the hackers aimed to flatline Duolingo and noticing they got the wrong server decided to withdraw.

SweNedGuy

I just checked my league this week and 20 out of the 30 participants are Plus users! :shock: Perhaps DuoLingo now also pools Superduo users together in the leagues. The poor victims filling up the slack have a hard time surviving. If DuoLingo does so: they are not going to tell nor admit it. they p...

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My owl was golden (L5) but with less than half of the legendary crowns. I only needed a check-out to get the beaker last year. Now 12 new units (44-55) have opened up. Perhaps unit 44 has only been extended, since I find myself in the middle of it. I'm near the end of the path for Portuguese (from S...

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