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| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5468 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 25 of 35 03 July 2015 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Speaking practice is turned on. I didn't get it on the Dutch course either. Maybe this is an issue with the android app, or maybe speaking practice only kicks in a few lessons in. I'm on part 2 of 4 of "Animals 1". Edit: according to a facebook acquaintance, she didn't get speaking practice on the Swedish course on the iOS version either. Edited by getreallanguage on 04 July 2015 at 3:25am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| vowelharmony Triglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5636 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English, Portuguese*, French Studies: German, Swedish | Message 26 of 35 10 July 2015 at 4:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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I joined Duolingo last month to try the Swedish course and so far so good. I decided to
try Spanish as well. Can anybody tell me why the Spanish course is so bad? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5006 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 27 of 35 10 July 2015 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I tried just a few levels and found these faults to the Spanish Duolingo:
1.heavy overuse of personal pronouns. Practicing sentences that include them as if Spanish was English or French, that is purely wrong and creates a bad habit, especially when the Duolingo learner is a beginner. Sentences "Yo hablo espanol." and "Hablo espanol" are different. The second is much more universal, the first is more correct in specific contexts, especially when you are stressing the fact that it is you, who speaks Speanish. (please, correct me, if I am wrong, I am not a native) 2.Really weird vocabulary. What do I mean: the vocabulary in the German Duolingo is more or less the same as used in other courses or native materials, as fas as I can judge. The vocabulary in Spanish Duolingo is totally different, quite many of the words you learn in the early levels of Duolingo are very uncommon, not often heard or read in my courses, books, tv series or spoken by the natives I've been listening to. It looks as if everytime the course creators could choose from two or three synonymes, they chose the uncommon one instead of the simple beginner word you'd find anywhere else. Anyone has a different impression from the Spanish Duolingo, please? Thanks for the info about the Swedish Duolingo. It sounds good. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| vowelharmony Triglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5636 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: English, Portuguese*, French Studies: German, Swedish | Message 28 of 35 12 July 2015 at 3:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thank you! That was really helpful!
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5204 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 29 of 35 13 July 2015 at 10:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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I thought the Italian course wasn't bad, it was on a par with the French one. However for both languages I've just used it for testing and strengthening: using the placement test to get through the first part of the tree and the "Test out" function for the rest, so I've not exactly done it in depth. I've had a couple of glitches like the "usa" example, but only rarely.
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| galaxyrocker Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4406 days ago 6 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English*, Irish | Message 30 of 35 23 July 2015 at 5:25am | IP Logged | |||||
The issue with the Irish course is that there is no such thing as "Standard Pronunciation". It doesn't exist. She doesn't speak Irish, plain and simple. She uses English sounds in Irish, much as any learner in Ireland does. It's a huge SNAFU on Duolingo's part. And, no, there's no way you're A2 after Duolingo Irish. Not until you can use all of it well, not just read it. And then your vocabulary is likely lacking. Edit: To everyone else, stay away from Duolingo Irish. The pronunciation is absolutely awful, though there are recordings being made with a new voice. We'll see whether it's better as the current team said the current voice sounded 'native', when she's clearly not. There's also some issues with a lot of direct translations from English still being worked out and whatnot. Edited by galaxyrocker on 23 July 2015 at 5:26am 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| ilmari Tetraglot Newbie Australia Joined 5507 days ago 23 posts - 47 votes Speaks: French*, Modern Hebrew, English, Japanese Studies: Korean, Finnish, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto | Message 31 of 35 26 September 2015 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Duolingo has an Esperanto course, which is quite a good introduction to the language: A good way to pick up
basic grammar and vocabulary. I appreciate the fact that you can do it in short sessions, and that Duolingo keeps track of your progress, telling you when to review. The downside is too many Esperanto to English typing exercise which you can't turn off. I don't like the computer voices in Spanish or other languages, but Esperanto seems to have real human recordings. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| linguaholic_ch Triglot Groupie IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5045 days ago 69 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English, Hindi, Bengali Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, French | Message 32 of 35 30 September 2015 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am doing the Esperanto course right now, and its really good. Although it gets boring
sometimes and this puts many off, but the way the vocabularies although cumbersome, are introduced is very efficient. I feel this is because the skills have an essential amount of words needed to be learned.The human voice recordings are very audible compared to other languages in Duo. Anyways, I would it is a great app albeit with some quirks.Some of my friends who never liked learning languages have been inspired by it to study a tongue. And, we ought to know to supplement Duolingo with other language resources. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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