tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5870 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 25 of 55 01 January 2012 at 3:40am | IP Logged |
Moving right along. DuoLingo is addicting which is good for motivation and perseverance.
I have tested out of Spanish Basic 2 with 348 skill points and have now translated 21
Spanish sentences from the Internet. The last three sentences came from this web page:
Papa
Edited by tommus on 01 January 2012 at 5:03am
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5870 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 26 of 55 04 January 2012 at 4:43am | IP Logged |
More study completed. I am half way through Food in Spanish Basic 2. I now have 418 skill
points and have translated 27 sentences from the Internet. The last three were about
tasty Italian cheese.
There isn't much information filtering out of Duolingo. No indication about how many
people are signed up, how many are doing Spanish and German, and how much progress has
now been made in translating sentences. Duolingo doesn't seem to be very "transparent".
Maybe they are too busy developing course material. So far, I think the Spanish course is
good, and does reading, writing, listening and speaking. There are regular built-in
reviews (something like SRS) and I seem to be remembering almost everything.
Edited by tommus on 04 January 2012 at 4:49am
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a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5260 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish
| Message 27 of 55 04 January 2012 at 9:34am | IP Logged |
How long did it take you to recieve your confirmation email?
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5870 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 28 of 55 04 January 2012 at 1:12pm | IP Logged |
a3 wrote:
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About two weeks. I requested it in early December.
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5870 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 29 of 55 07 January 2012 at 4:36am | IP Logged |
I am now in Spanish level 3 and I'm working on Animals. I have 506 skill points and have translated 33 sentences from the Internet. The last sentences were from this web page:
http://www.xatakaciencia.com/biologia/singularidades-extraor dinarias-de-animales-ordinarios-viii-el-burro
I wish there was a Duolingo blog. I seem to be working in a vacuum. No response from Duolingo to my feedback and questions. But I am learning Spanish. And yes, I am providing very good English translations of Spanish sentences from web pages, which of course is the main objective of Duolingo.
I have just recently started Duolingo German. It also seems to be well organised with excellent audio and a good variety of reading, writing, listening and speaking.
I am disappointed that Duolingo has not invited more participants at this point. I think there is only one other member of HTLAL who has been able to participate.
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Chevalier Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4711 days ago 53 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English
| Message 30 of 55 08 January 2012 at 11:21pm | IP Logged |
It's interesting, but I think that the learner should only translate to his native language, unless if he's very advanced. I would like to use it to review English vocabulary and it'd be easier to translate from English to my native language.
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5870 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 31 of 55 09 January 2012 at 1:12am | IP Logged |
Chevalier wrote:
It's interesting, but I think that the learner should only translate to his native language |
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That is the way DuoLingo works.
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5870 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 32 of 55 09 January 2012 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
I now have 566 skill points in Spanish Level 3 and have translated 42 Spanish sentences from the Internet into English. In German, I am still at Basic 1 with 40 skill points and have translated 3 Internet sentences into English. I still have had no feedback from DuoLingo on my feedback and questions. But I am learning steadily.
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