The Duolingo Thread

[luke]

A bunch of new "skills" showed up in the Esperanto Duolingo tree yesterday, including Business, Word Building, Esperanto Culture, and Flirting.

[BellyKather]

404 page in duolingo? zs.duolingo.com/

[jeff_lindqvist]

It worked fine for me just a short while ago ( http://www.duolingo.com that is).

[Hank]

After reading about the changes to Duolingo in this thread I was curious and decided to give it a shot. I randomly chose Italian and tried a few lessons. I really like it. It seems like, for me at least, it would be more effective than the old setup. I may do some Duolingo dabbling in Italian now...or maybe Irish...or German...well...you get the point.

[Stelle]

I hate the app with a passion now. I like the crowns, but I don’t understand why you get completely kicked out after making five mistakes. It’s not all conducive to learning. I’m using the desktop version for Russian, and have been finding it very useful, but I’ve deleted the app.

[Cavesa]

I hate the app with a passion now. I like the crowns, but I don’t understand why you get completely kicked out after making five mistakes. It’s not all conducive to learning. I’m using the desktop version for Russian, and have been finding it very useful, but I’ve deleted the app.

This might be the famous"health system". There have been many complaints about this on the duolingo forum, it is a "feature" only some users have got, and it is independent from the crowns, and it is also not present in the app for the luckier part of the userbase. So far, it doesn't look like Duolingo is gonna get rid of this.

[galaxyrocker]

or maybe Irish

Just avoid the Irish course; it's pretty terrible, honestly. It's clear that the creators weren't native speakers, with lots of things being phrased based off English, or not something natives would say, or correct in only one dialect (with no indication of this) or just translated wrong (not to mention lack of context makes some things with Irish very difficult). Plus, they're not active anymore, so it doesn't seem as if it'll ever be getting fixed.

[Hank]

or maybe Irish

Just avoid the Irish course; it's pretty terrible, honestly. It's clear that the creators weren't native speakers, with lots of things being phrased based off English, or not something natives would say, or correct in only one dialect (with no indication of this) or just translated wrong (not to mention lack of context makes some things with Irish very difficult). Plus, they're not active anymore, so it doesn't seem as if it'll ever be getting fixed.

That stinks. Thanks for the info.

[jeff_lindqvist]

I've seen a number of Spanish gerundium examples which I think are based on the English progressive -ing-form - and I don't think it's used that much in "real" Spanish. Something like "Are you working tomorrow?" will be "Estás trabajando mañana?". (A search for these made up examples gives +15,000 hits vs. 150 hits). If I see it in a native text, fine, but if I see it in Duolingo, I'm not so sure.

[Cainntear]

I've seen a number of Spanish gerundium examples which I think are based on the English progressive -ing-form - and I don't think it's used that much in "real" Spanish. Something like "Are you working tomorrow?" will be "Estás trabajando mañana?". (A search for these made up examples gives +15,000 hits vs. 150 hits). If I see it in a native text, fine, but if I see it in Duolingo, I'm not so sure.

As far as I'm aware, that's completely wrong, as wrong as "I will do it yesterday". Duolingo has had a problem with their language moderators, and some of them have clearly followed a policy of "that's a literal translation, so it's correct."