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Kuwait | The Alsatian King | ᓚᘏᗢ |
April 24th, 2022 11:31:10pm
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Anyone else?


Whatchoo learning?


I jump between French, Spanish, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmal) and Haitian Creole. I mostly do French, Norwegian and Haitian Creole.




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etiqueta {canis panthers}
April 25th, 2022 10:50:48am
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I was working on Spanish but life got in the way and I always forget to start it up again! I'll randomly think about it in the middle of the night when I'm falling asleep. xD




 

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Concourse [I'll rise up, I'll rise unafraid]
April 25th, 2022 10:57:44am
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How much does this cost? I have a neighbor who only speaks spanish and she's the best neighbor I have and we've always had each others backs. I'd love to be able to communicate with her more efficiently.




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Maharet : Taking a break : BV, Blitz, & Trig watching
April 26th, 2022 11:15:05am
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website says free?

also

anna158759 add me XD




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etiqueta {canis panthers}
April 26th, 2022 12:07:36pm
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You can do it for free but they do have some paid features on the app!




 

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Kuwait | The Alsatian King | ᓚᘏᗢ |
April 26th, 2022 9:23:49pm
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A thing with the site, though, is you're not taught the alphabet, numbers, etc. More phrases.

Something I thought was good about the old Duolingo was how you used to be able to repeat words and phrases you heard, but that seems to be gone now, unless it's been made a Premium perk.

An odd phrase I got in French:




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Maharet : Taking a break : BV, Blitz, & Trig watching
May 3rd, 2022 12:27:01pm
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mine asks me still to "speak" but i just turn it off XD




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`NEKE-A-SAURUS → up in smoke
May 3rd, 2022 3:43:25pm
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I have been trying to learn German. ♥




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mangobi-wan ✨ hello there
May 3rd, 2022 3:58:19pm
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I tried doing it with Korean, but they don't do a fantastic job of teaching fluency with contextual languages. Instead of teaching you how the language works, they just teach you phrases like Kuw said. Which is nice in a crunch or when you're prepping for a vacay, but when you're trying to learn to be fluent, is not helpful at all. I need to understand tenses and conjugations and honorific conjugations in order to be able to speak on my own in a contextual language, rather than regurgitate learned phrases, if that makes sense? xD

I ended up finding a different website that is actually devoted to teaching Korean from the ground up like we learned English in school ^^




 

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Eyre • hello spring
May 11th, 2022 12:31:57am
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Ah! Glad someone brought this up! #linguisticnerd

I only use the app and don't have premium as its is expensive for my wallet; don't mind the ads so much as long as their is a mute button; Right now, I'm into: Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek, and German and I've oscillated/dabbled in Ukrainian, Danish, Navajo, Turkish, Polish, Czech, and Yiddish; I'll probably go back to some of those later on, but wanted to wait until I advanced more in what I have now. AbbosAlley is my username. 

@Maha: Started following you, Maha. I'm going by the name Mehri, just in case you wonder who this random person is.




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Maharet : Taking a break : BV, Blitz, & Trig watching
May 11th, 2022 12:49:55am
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100% figured it was someone from here who found me. 
im doing the German thing as I did 4 yrs in hs and of course forgot it all 


it's coming back thankfully


the monster child is playing in the Spanish courses :)




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Kuwait | The Alsatian King | ᓚᘏᗢ |
May 11th, 2022 2:06:33pm
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Maha, I added you!

Eyre, I'll add you later!



I'm dropping Haitian Creole (Kreyol) as it got complicated. It was throwing big sentences at me that I couldn't remember when it came to me writing what the voice said, or translating it to English.

My main focus is on French, and I dip into Norwegian and the others occasionally. Mostly I go on to keep my streak going (I restarted on the 1st of last month) and to earn Lingots. 




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