Duolingo Forum

Hooray, you guys!! Woot!!!

“Newby” forum sounds cool with a sticky or two and maybe a thread called “Introductions” for those who want to share a bit about their journey. (Perhaps we already have such a thread going somewhere.)

And just fyi i did go through the disillusioning experience myself of posting something objectively innocuous on duolingo forum and seeing it downrated absurdly. It was indeed off-putting.

What will duolingo look like ten, twenty years in the future? They’ve done away with their forum for now, but they may start a new one in the future or acquire another. Like this one perhaps. One never knows!

Once again I embarrass myself on here with my precipitous writings! Haha. Thanks for correcting my false impression. I hope something decent remains in my post despite my misinformation.

What I’m really just loving is the beautiful and welcoming universality of each language listed alphabetically with all its subforums listed. It’s beyond what I’d imagined possible already. So nice!

I’m just so impressed with all the subforums. It’s a beautiful thing to behold!! Well done, hard workers!!

One of my favorite all time articles.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012 ... -beginners

After reading it, I ordered a hard copy of Ithkuil which is available online for free.

http://www.ithkuil.net/texts.html

Ah!! So that’s how it works. How confusing. So posts that appear poorly rated are actually highly rated because they have thumbs ups attached to them? Yes, I appreciate you moving it to troubleshooting. Thanks!

Wondering where the post announcing this forum went to at the official duolingo forum. Is it just me or did it disappear?

I don’t have that. I have a thumb option to thank someone but I still don’t see how to rate…

How do you rate posts? Also: If we’re going to allow people to rate posts and topics, would it be a bad idea to show who rated what and how much?

For a long, long time, Swahili had no voices to go with it. This was actually an appeal for me because it allowed me to listen to podcasts on my phone while doing duolingo. Now Swahili has several voices and there have been additions - especially in the idiom section - just in the last year.

Pretty sure we can expect that the Navajo course, like the Hawaiian course, will only grow in the future (the CEO is extremely proud of indigenous languages) and I doubt very much if any languages will be removed.