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DUOLINGO did anybody use this App?
By: Aliph Date: April 7, 2019, 4:39 am
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I thought I may try to start playing around with a new language
with this popular app. I am on modern Greek. In high school I
had four years of Ancient Greek, but that was a long time ago. I
forgot even the alphabet that I mix with the Cyrillic alphabet
(another past attempt to learn a language).
The App is fun and has a logic build up, you are supposed to
learn intuitively by decoding simple structures.
Though the choice of vocabulary is odd. Some examples : this is
a buffalo, that is an insect.
And they insist on correct faultless writing. I just want to
talk and read a bit.
Did you try DUOLINGO for any language?
How was your experience?
#Post#: 14114--------------------------------------------------
Re: DUOLINGO did anybody use this App?
By: Alharacas Date: April 7, 2019, 7:51 am
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Yes, I tried Duolingo for Turkish. It managed to teach me
"kaplumbağa", the word for tortoise. Wonderful.
Apart from brilliant sentences like "The pink elephant has lost
its keys" what I most disliked about it was this: they teach you
a few words by showing you pictures, and you think "Oh, great,
and now for the lesson where we're going to practice these
words" and - that's it. They never come up again.
And I know some people like to learn systematically, but my
brain doesn't work that way. Please teach me the words for
"white", "Monday" and "seven" today, revise them tomorrow and
teach me "Wednesday", "blue" and "nine" a little later. That'll
give me a chance to actually remember them without having to go
through all the days of the week, or all the numbers, until I
arrive at the one I need.
I also wanted to dabble a bit in Russian, just to find out how
to read/pronounce words, but no such luck. They don't provide
the cyrillic alphabet. Now, it's not that I think I'm incapable
of changing my keyboard to a different alphabet. What I'm afraid
of is that I won't be able to change it back again. Plus, first
having to change your keyboard is not really ideal if you'd just
like to do a few minutes' worth of exercises.
#Post#: 14115--------------------------------------------------
Re: DUOLINGO did anybody use this App?
By: Aliph Date: April 7, 2019, 9:06 am
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Alharacas thanks for the feedback.
Well, changing keyboards on a tablet or a smartphone is easier
than on a computer. I never would do it on my laptop.
I just started Duolinguo out of curiosity and the need of
playfulness. I also wanted to recover my knowledge of the Greek
alphabet.
I spent a couple of hours on it and found it appealing and
ludic.
Aside from the recreational aspect, I will not learn modern
Greek, unless I will fall in love with the language. ::)
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Re: DUOLINGO did anybody use this App?
By: SHL Date: April 7, 2019, 11:20 am
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[quote author=Sofia link=topic=953.msg14115#msg14115
date=1554645965]
Alharacas thanks for the feedback.
Well, changing keyboards on a tablet or a smartphone is easier
than on a computer. I never would do it on my laptop.
I just started Duolinguo out of curiosity and the need of
playfulness. I also wanted to recover my knowledge of the Greek
alphabet.
I spent a couple of hours on it and found it appealing and
ludic.
Aside from the recreational aspect, I will not learn modern
Greek, unless I will fall in love with the language. ::)
[/quote]
Ludic? Where are all these words coming from I never heard of?
You have a better English vocabulary than I do Sofia, so I had
to look that one up too: spielerisch. I get it now. Neal and
Jerry are going to come along and say they use ludic all the
time and that I must have had a deficient education, which is
why I vote Democrat ::)
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Re: DUOLINGO did anybody use this App?
By: Aliph Date: April 7, 2019, 11:46 am
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Ha, ha, SHL I thought of you when I wanted to translate the
French word “ludique” (very common word) to English. I checked:
ludic is also used in English.
Don’t worry about what they tell about you. If you would have
chosen French instead of German, you could show off a little bit
more with words of Latin and Greek origin.
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Re: DUOLINGO did anybody use this App?
By: Truman Overby Date: April 7, 2019, 11:50 am
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[quote author=SHL link=topic=953.msg14120#msg14120
date=1554654013]
[quote author=Sofia link=topic=953.msg14115#msg14115
date=1554645965]
Alharacas thanks for the feedback.
Well, changing keyboards on a tablet or a smartphone is easier
than on a computer. I never would do it on my laptop.
I just started Duolinguo out of curiosity and the need of
playfulness. I also wanted to recover my knowledge of the Greek
alphabet.
I spent a couple of hours on it and found it appealing and
ludic.
Aside from the recreational aspect, I will not learn modern
Greek, unless I will fall in love with the language. ::)
[/quote]
Ludic? Where are all these words coming from I never heard of?
You have a better English vocabulary than I do Sofia, so I had
to look that one up too: spielerisch. I get it now. Neal and
Jerry are going to come along and say they use ludic all the
time and that I must have had a deficient education, which is
why I vote Democrat ::)
[/quote]
I'd like to give you a hard time, Steve. But I'm with you on
this one. I've never heard 'ludic' in my life. I think Sofia
gets a lot of these words from specialty publications. I have to
believe that ludic is in the bottom of the list of commonly used
words. In may in fact be considered archaic, even though it was
coined in the 1940s { weren't you born in 1940, Steve? }
according to my research.
This is a word English learners can forget all about. You'll
never use it. Unless maybe you travel to wherever Sofia lives.
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Re: DUOLINGO did anybody use this App?
By: NealC Date: April 7, 2019, 7:00 pm
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The idea that we use the word 'ludic' in the United States is
absolutely ludicrous.
And yes Steve your education was deficient, and it is one of the
reasons you vote Democrat.
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Re: DUOLINGO did anybody use this App?
By: Aliph Date: April 8, 2019, 1:55 am
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The word “ludique” is very common in French. No need to have a
“Bac plus 3” degree (a Bachelor’s degree from college) to use
it. The reason why I looked up the English translation was to
astonish Steve. I know it’s ludicrous.
This word in French is very much used also in the word
“ludothèque “ that defines a Toy Library. There are many,
created to give kids the possibility to borrow toys for a
limited time.
HTML https://www.qwant.com/?q=Ludoth%C3%A8que&t=videos&o=0:db20ed330acba36d87ec663d0263ba64&order=relevance&source=youtube<br
/>
The word ludoteca/ludoteka is used in Spanish, Euskara, Italian
etc
But seriously I found the archaic word “ludic” in English in
some online dictionary.
I was just playing with words.
#Post#: 14135--------------------------------------------------
Re: DUOLINGO did anybody use this App?
By: SHL Date: April 8, 2019, 2:28 am
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Yes, Sofia you did surprise me with this vocabulary of yours.
Ludic? Spielerisch, playful is better. And what was that other
weird word of Nikola‘s, unterwürfig? Servil?
Told ya Neal and Jerry would have something to say. And no Neal,
my education is not deficient. It‘s outstanding actually,
top-notch.
And NO Jerry, I was not born in 1940. Please! Just 1958. Don‘t
make it worse than it already is! But with all of that, comes my
wisdom and maturity as you can see ;D
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Re: DUOLINGO did anybody use this App?
By: Aliph Date: April 8, 2019, 6:51 am
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Going back to my original post and asking all of you (especially
those born after 1975) did any of you ever use Duolingo or any
other App to get playfully acquainted with a new language from
scratch?
Do you think it is useful to persist?
I remember that on Italki I read some posts about it.
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