minor grumbles in re: Duolingo
Jul. 17th, 2020 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberett- they've stopped telling you reliably every single time you make a typo which is not helping with learning orthography I must say
- what is even WITH the French exercises that need you to correctly interpret a cartoon in order to fill in the blanks, this is the ACTUAL WORST
- good grief but the sound balancing for the audio clips that actually exist for Irish is consistently terrible
- and, as the final outrage, the German course still refuses to accept the Correct Potato Word >:(
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Date: 2020-07-18 05:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-07-18 08:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-07-18 08:47 pm (UTC)Erdapfel!
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Date: 2020-07-19 06:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-07-21 06:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-07-21 09:55 pm (UTC)the relevant bit of my family is Austrian
and Austria, like a lot of the rest of continental Europe, went through A Phase
a highly specific Phase
The Phase, in fact, of DO You KNOW WHAt'S SEXY? FRENCH.
So while mainland Germany insists of "die Kartoffel", Where I'm From we say der Erdapfel, which is a calque of pomme-de-terre, resulting in e.g. the dish Himmel und Erde.
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Date: 2020-07-21 10:01 pm (UTC)FASCINATING THANK YOU
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Date: 2020-07-19 01:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-07-20 08:46 am (UTC)