Duolingo stuff

[fuzzyred]

I've done a shit ton of Duolingo so far this week, much more than I normally do. I'm really proud of this, but there is still SO much to do. The French skill tree is 172 skills (I believe), each has five levels, and each level appears to have five lessons. If I mathed right, there are 860 crowns to earn (one crown for each level of each skill.) I'm very grateful that I previously completed the French tree and had some knowledge already, as I am pretty much exclusively testing out of skills. I don't think I'd get very far if I had to do every lesson. *headdesk*

A thing of curiosity about Duolingo; does it always give you harder learning content when you complete a level? Because it seems to do that with me for French, which is going to leave me screwed for the later skills.

I also did a few Polish lessons today, and have a few funny sentences to share with you.

Polish: "Nie jestem psem, jestem kotem."
English: "I am not a dog, I am a cat."

Really Duo? We are cats and dogs now? XD

Polish: "Krab je ciasteczka."
English: "The crab is eating cookies."

I didn't know crabs ate cookies, thanks for telling me something new Duo. XD XD

Comments

[warriorsavant]

I'm doing Vietnamese. I agree many of the sentences are useless in everyday life ("the bat is at the train station"). I'm thinking it is all a subtle way to teach the letters and intonations and general structure. At least I'm hoping there's some logic to it, and I'll get to something useful at some point.

[fuzzyred]

I've noticed the French semtences tend to be more practical (and more complex) than the Polish ones. Perhaps it is a function of how long the course has been around and/or progress in the course? Also, the nonsense sentences do still teach vocabulary and grammar so they aren't 100% useless, but certainly far from ideal. Here's hoping the sentences get more useful for you as you get further along.

[warriorsavant]

On the other hand, perhaps I was being too critical and short-sighted. It might be important to know that the goat is eating a papaya and that the bat is at the train station.

[fuzzyred]

XD Somehow, those strike me as less than helpful. I had a sentence in French today that I don't remember exactly, but was about a dinosaur interrupting something like a shopping trip. Pretty sure we don't need to worry about dinosaurs anymore, Duolingo.