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Duolingo Really Wants You To Keep Your Streak In The Holiday [Bad News Gone Right] Thread
AngelHedgie
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It's the holiday edition of our outpost of the weird, and we have a story of aggressive language learning support as an owl takes over the top of one family's Christmas tree:
(Being Native, where owls are seen as harbingers of death and winged psychopomps, this would have absolutely terrified my wife.)
One family got a surprise visit from someone coming down their chimney Thursday — but it wasn’t Saint Nick.
Instead, it was a barred owl.
The huge bird flew into the family’s house, spotted their Christmas tree and decided he would make a nicer star than the one they already had on top.
After he knocked the star over and perched himself on top of the tree, the family called animal control to help them out. Sgt. Murray with the Animal Welfare League of Arlington was able to capture their new feathered friend and safely release him back into the wild.
(Being Native, where owls are seen as harbingers of death and winged psychopomps, this would have absolutely terrified my wife.)
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They just start throwing squiggles at you and expect you to know or remember what they mean. No grammar tools either.
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It's a lot of nonsense. I can ask where a university is. Because as you know a tourist in Japan is gonna hit up all the big colleges
Throwing hiragana at you is weird too. I need conversation literacy not spelling
But hey they fucked me by not saying you pay for the no ad plan upfront instead of monthly so I'm gonna grind it for the next few months
I can ask how much something cost, I cannot understand the numbers they tell me
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I had been on Super Duolingo, but I stopped because there were so many ads for Duolingo Max.
With all that said, using Duolingo my French has gotten to the point where I can read somethings like Asterix or Les Tuniques Bleues or the French translation of Frieren with minimal help from Google Translate. That's basically my current goal, to be fluent enough in French that I can read a newspaper article or a comic book or a museum guide book and understand it. I'm somewhere around a B1 or B2 level. When I've gone to France, I've occasionally found myself speaking to people with no English, and my understanding of French has been sufficient to get me through.
Korean and Japanese both have tabs where you can learn the alphabets, but both seem to assume you kinda know what's going on a little. But I can't find a Kanji tab which is like the whole reason I switch over to Japanese! Bleh
But for Asian languages, LingoDeer is considered superior (but oh my gosh the AI voice is tedious, and always switches back on for every lesson. ugh!).
Anyway I'm dabbling in Babbel for Spanish and I am feeling utterly lost in the pronunciation and conjugation. I was told it was like French!
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Disappointing but it doesn't surprise me. Duolingo is a shadow of what is was in the past. They've dropped a lot of useful features (like a proper set of notes for each module) seemingly in the name of streamlining and monetisation
They bothered because they're written by AI, and therefore cheap filler.
Despite that, I do think it's useful to have them as pure listening exercises with no subtitles. And the intro/outro do swap to your target language when you get a bit further in.
De dónde eres, or something
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
They would be if they made fucking sense.
Half the time it's two people taking about umbrellas or some nonsense
I mean
I opened it cuz someone mentioned it also I saw they had some job postings
But I’m not using it really
Also, this:
...is just horrible sounding.
I know I'm going to regret this, but out of morbid curiosity - what was the worst thing?
While it was still inflated.
And I'll just say this...they succeeded before the medic arrived.
I was going to say that sounds like Fire Department Chronicles, and...yep, it was FDC:
Just...ow.
Gotta say we have very different definitions of success.
After that, a glass bottle of Louisiana™ Hot Sauce
But I’ve seen several genital deglovings (of both genital types), and lots of genital injuries.
Y’all dunk on us vanilla people but y’all don’t ever see us in the ER with sex injuries
That's not... entirely true. Adverse outcomes of
That’s more of a misadventure 😉
How... How do you treat a degloved vagina? Assuming that means what I think that means it is not going to be a great experience for anyone.
Spoiler for hospital-talk
The external vulva degloving was a super weird case, caused by the awful trifecta of someone overdosing on their immunosuppressants, being a mental invalid (a very weird case, to say the least), and being functionally incontinent.
Just their whole crotch sloughing completely off.
(just violently shudders)
Well, I asked.
Long term rehab/senior care vet... at least monthly at my facility.
And working in senior care at the advent of the Viagra/Cialis age was an adventure in the world of Byzantine medical/ethical/legal intersections.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
At least you asked.
I stupidly clicked on the spoiler-ed response anyway.
I imagine it's less interesting in person.
Shark fin if long enough might work.
Imagine changing a baby’s diaper twice an hour but the baby is a full-grown adult and instead of pee in the diaper it’s sanguinous effluence
Again me at the desk, brain is going "that's absolutely fascinating."
And I clicked the spoiler.
I need to stop clicking the spoiler.
Stop clicking all the spoilers. They're all just traps.
Yer not my parental unit!