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SweNedGuy

"Lascia ch' io pianga"
"Lasciami piangere"
Entrambi sono fragmenti di testo (Haendel, DiDonato). La costruzione con l'infinito mi sembra più comune.

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Diamond leagues starting on Mondays usually are filled with homogeneous groups of learners. Exclusive website users are grouped Long streak learners are overrepresented in some leagues. According to Duolingo only 6.6% of learners have a streak over one year. Yet in my league, I often notice more tha...

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On DuoMe you see your XP graph versus one random peer with roughly the same total (in light gray) over four weeks. In order to see the number of lessons, you need to check the raw data (2 weeks) and count lessons. Lessons are less obvious than they used to be, since only the lessons counting for an ...

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Free users have to put up with the hearts system. For app users this is nothing new, website users only face this adversity since last summer. Whenever you stride forward along the path, facing new content or practicing in the 'champion' last chapter, hearts may be consumed more rapidly than you ima...

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Dutch: Ik hou van jou.
Alternative in Flanders and the southern Netherlands: Ik zie je graag.

Alternative formulations (perhaps a bit less passionate):
Spanish: Te quiero. / Te quiero mucho.
Italian: Ti voglio molto bene.

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Duolingo added a story in the 'daily practice" of the Portuguese course from Spanish. That course does not normally include stories: you have no 'story' (cuentos) tab in the practice menu. Hence some stories were made 'on the fly', with some questions left unfinished... https://i.imgur.com/zgPo...

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The number of quests completed sometimes goes up by four per day, since DL seems to include also friend quests completed.

The silly quests, such as "meet Falstaff seven times in lessons" have been left aside lately.

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Invoer via het toetsenbord van een PC. De toetsenborden in Nederland en België beschikken over een trema. Je tikt eerst het trema en vervolgens de klinker waarop je een Umlaut wil: ä, ö, ü kunnen zo vlot ingevoerd worden. De 'eszet' gaat minder vlot. Er is een ASCII character code 225 daarvoor die j...

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No notification from DL nor from chess.com so far. I am not sure I would accept the offer. Especially if it requires disclosing credit card details and a limited time frame to opt out of a paid membership. This whole operation may just be a marketing stunt to figure how many fresh memberships can be...

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A little clarification: I have been using chess.com before, always a free account . Several options are not available, but you can still play against quite a few computer bots and also against other players. You only get one full analysis per day though. A free diamond account for two weeks can alwa...

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Duo introduced hearts on the website, thus favoring users to avoid risk and repeat known content rather than to engage in learning new content which may make you lose several hearts in one single lesson. (So please, if you want to continue finish your course, become Super Duo user. That is the add w...

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She broke the rule about repeating a move. How many times a same move can be made? I don't remember. Three times from exactly the same position, both for B and W. Chess.com knows that rule: I had a couple of draws because of repetition (besides more losses) against Duo-Lily. Maybe I am misinterpret...

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balon Lo balon is not 'the balloon' in Occitan, but one of the words for ball . pilota La pilota is not Catalan for 'the [female] pilot', but ball instead. Extending to French: le ballon, and Spanish: la pelota, you have two near perfect cognates. In French 'le ballon' is also used for a small (hyd...

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(...) I would have sacrificed the bishop (41. Bf3) to promote the pawn and finish faster. She broke the rule about repeating a move. How many times a same move can be made? I don't remember. Thanks for sharing the game. Three times from exactly the same position, both for B and W. Chess.com knows t...

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To the credit of the chess.com sparring partner: you can opt-in on retracting moves, you can show valid moves (useful if you are a real novice), you can choose to play white, you can resign rather than continue a losing game. Even if your ELO score is several hundreds below the 1700 of Lily, you cre...

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Last week I got into the friends quest... With myself 😆 I didn't realize that my second, test account has grown to be able to join the quest - for more than two months it has too little daily quests done or something else withheld it from the friends' quests. Anyway, suddenly I found myself in the ...

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No, I did not record the game. Zari is not too difficult to beat by any player with some experience. The five Duolingo bots have vastly diverse chess ratings: Oscar (200), Junior (700), Zari (1250), Lily (1700) and Duo ( + 2800). While Duo is a sparring partner for the chess world champion, Lily wil...

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I am 'on board'

... and challenged Zari

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This weeks quest is only making 600 XP. However my team mate is inactive since at least a full week. I will need completing the quest by myself... kind of boring.

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It's been a hard day's night and I've been working like a dog. (Just to start off with a Beatles lyrics line) That depicts the effort needed to stay in the Diamond League finished on Sunday (at 9pm because winter time started in Europe). As mentioned above Duolingo had the 'bright idea' to cluster '...

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New languages are only enabled with pre-beta versions accessible through enrollment links (they may be platform specific as I read). Some existing language courses are no longer supported and are equally only accessible for new users using an enrollment link. The related 'flags' are missing when try...

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Apart from purchasing anything in the Duo store: https://store.duolingo.com/
you can also contact and become member of some carnival association. They confection funny costumes for their yearly parade.
It may also look like my avatar ...

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All regular users occasionally get interrupted by an add for becoming (paid) Super user or try it free of charge for two weeks (which I never did). Yet there also are the three days Super , regular DL learners get after every 50 days streak. Apart from a 'streak repair', all super-features are enabl...

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The way I understand it:
la chiamata è da tua madre : the call is from your mother.
la chiamata è per tua madre : the call is for your mother. (e.g. an incoming call on a landline)
la chiamata è a tua madre : the call is to your mother.

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After 43 weeks of DuoMe monitoring the Diamond League seniority, the N° 1 has reached 216 weeks. Congrats. Users with 100 or more weeks of seniority are listed with a micro avatar thumb. Yours truly has reached a DL seniority of 130 weeks (with about 6200 users doing better). My cohort still consist...

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... and let's not forget the impressive collection of Spanish music in the Culture & Society Section of the Spanish learners forum. @gmads did a good job posting lots of it, arranged by theme or country of origin.

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Unfortunately, they are only allowed to sing five of the seven nights. Anyway, the song ends with a tin whistle... You are missing out two nights. The one with the boots/geranium pots near the bed and the one with the baby boy with whiskers on where his old head should be. Peculiar, over here these...

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My Dubliners' favourite song:

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To procure = procurer (Fr). But the Portuguese false cognate 'procurar' means to search/to look for. There is no lexical similarity with the Spanish verb 'buscar' either. Another one is 'conozco' in Spanish = 'I know', in Portuguese conosco = 'with us'; startling at first. The real cognate of the Sp...

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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:/...

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