Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5168 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 57 of 86 26 January 2015 at 9:46pm | IP Logged |
Thank you for the feedback on Babel Indonesian, redflag. I was thinking of signing up to Babel just to have access to its Indonesian course, because there's no plan for doing it at Duolingo yet. Other than that, I'd definitely not go for Babel for what I can already finda at Duolingo.
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redflag Senior Member Australia Joined 3844 days ago 123 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish, Indonesian, French
| Message 58 of 86 26 January 2015 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
Hi Expugnator, the Indonesian course is basically just vocab flashcards type thing (as
opposed to the Babbel French which has a huge amount of varied content) but they say it's
2000 words I think so that's a decent amount. Given the relative simplicity of
Indonesian grammar I feel like focusing solely on vocab at the start might be more useful
than for other languages.
Indonesian would work quite well on Duolingo I think if someone wanted to do it.
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redflag Senior Member Australia Joined 3844 days ago 123 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish, Indonesian, French
| Message 59 of 86 31 January 2015 at 9:44am | IP Logged |
So anyway 6 days after I said I wanted to finish the Duolingo French tree by Easter ... I finished the Duolingo French
tree. Ha, I should set all my deadlines with that much leeway, feels good.
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s.mann Groupie United States lang-8.com/973514/jo Joined 3640 days ago 55 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 60 of 86 31 January 2015 at 2:37pm | IP Logged |
Congratulations! I'll be a few weeks behind you in finishing, but your owl is motivating me
to future tense NOW! :)
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redflag Senior Member Australia Joined 3844 days ago 123 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish, Indonesian, French
| Message 61 of 86 31 January 2015 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
Thanks s.mann. I did do a few things that sped it up a bit
- turned off the listening/speaking exercises. Don't think they're Duo's strengths and they were starting to irritate
me
- tested out of a few of the vocabulary based skills. Maybe a cheat but the time I saved was more than made up for
by having to do a crash course in intermediate grammar since I've never actually studied the past subjunctive and
things like that.
- I think the iPhone app version is a bit easier because even though they still have the hearts system they also give
you a lot where you just have to make the sentence from a bunch of words, which is easier than doing it cold off the
top of your head.
I'm going to do some timed practice each day for a bit now to go over some of the earlier stuff. Timed practice is 10
lingots but well worth it. And I've started the Danish tree ... ;-)
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 62 of 86 01 February 2015 at 10:32am | IP Logged |
Congratulations! That's a great accomplishment!
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PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5478 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1
| Message 63 of 86 01 February 2015 at 12:10pm | IP Logged |
You're making me want to try out Duolingo properly now to get one of these rediculous but kinda nice owls (i
really really dont need to)... excellent job redflag!
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 64 of 86 01 February 2015 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
PeterMollenburg wrote:
You're making me want to try out Duolingo properly now to get one of these rediculous but kinda nice owls (i really really dont need to)... excellent job redflag! |
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You should try it. You don't do enough courses anyway! ;)
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