#frenchat

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900 days of Duolingo

I've made it to 900 days of Duolingo.  I'm continuing my loop of doing one language each day (French-Japanese-Welsh), as it seems to be working pretty well for me.  It probably slows my progress down compared with focusing on just one language, but if I wanted to optimise my language learning I'd probably be doing language lessons rather than just Duolingo.  

Duolingo have finally fixed the error that was giving me stuck mistakes on French and Welsh.  However, they've broken (I really hope it's a bug and not an intentional change) English input for all languages, so I have to pick words off a pick list rather than typing my answer in.  This makes my overall experience much worse.  In French and Welsh, I can at least type the first few words of the word, but it forces me to focus on wrangling the UI rather than on what the translation actually means.  In Japanese I can't even do that, but have to use the mouse.  Given that I specifically use Duolingo desktop so that I can type my answers in (just pressing buttons rather than typing means I don't learn anything), I'm pretty annoyed about this change.  At least it's only for translations to English - if it was translations from English, I think that would lead to me dropping Duolingo altogether.  

They also haven't done anything to replace the information in the teaching notes or forums.  Welsh is particularly bad, as pre-UI change there was detailed information on grammar as part of the course, and it’s just been wiped out and replaced with some not very useful examples.  French has some teaching material, but it never seems to answer the questions I have.  Anyway, you can learn about masculine and feminine versions of Welsh numbers here, and the order in which you should put indirect object pronouns in French here. Just don’t expect Duolingo to be helpful for that stuff. 

French

At 800 days I was doing some revision of earlier units, and was having to scroll back to unit 40.  I finished that block of sections, and am now on unit 58.  This is still not quite where Duolingo thinks I’m supposed to be (unit 62), but the end is in sight and I don’t have to scroll so far.  It’s harder work than the stuff in unit 40, but much better than it was the first time round as I’ve now got a firmer grasp of the basics. 

Japanese

At 800 days I was revising the material in units 10-14.  I’m now working on unit 18.  It thinks it should be on unit 20, which seems pretty close, except I’m taking a long time to get to grips with each new set of words.  I told a friend that the main thing Duolingo Japanese was teaching me was humility, and they replied that that was very Japanese of it, so there is that, I suppose.  I am making progress, it’s just very slow. 

Welsh

At 800 days I was on unit 7 in Welsh, and now I’m on unit 9.  Which I guess is not super fast progress, but I’m ambling along quite contentedly.  Because I’m up with where it thinks I should be, I can use the sessions in the Practice section, such as Target Practice and Listening, which are pretty good for consolidation, so I’m hopeful I won’t have to go back and revisit earlier units in the same way I’ve been doing for French and Japanese. 

My main complaint about Welsh is that the Guidebook sections are completely useless (as discussed above).  I’m particularly bitter about this, because before the UI upgrade they had some unusually good course notes, and they seem to have brought Welsh into line with the other languages by getting rid of them entirely. 

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Kentucky Fried Copenhagen, or, alternatively, Kentucky Fried Cish

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Thank you for tagging me @comfykpop 

Post ten facts about yourself and pass it on to ten faves  

My name is Laura

I’m French, from Guadeloupe

I speak French, English and German (currently learning Korean)

I’m 22

I love winter, the smell of coldness (?), the sound of snow crushing under your feet

I have a 9 year old cat (and she is the love of my life)

I’m studying Frenchat university to be a French teacher abroad

I’m fairly new in kpop and don’t know many bands, but the one I know, I love deeply <3 (B1A4, EXO, GOT7, BigBang, Day6, Red Velvet, Oh My Girl, Mamamoo, IU, BTS that’s all I can think of right now)

I can play the piano, the guitar and the violin

I love anything related to horror, paranormal, science fiction etc

:3 

@bethe1all4one @shinwhoohoo @kaistaetic @kpopchangedme @fishtaeils @msorange101 @fine-sser @cybercnu @angelsandeul @jinyoung-trash

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but what’s the meaning behind them talking in frenchat the start?

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no context

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"the healing energy of a braums cherry limeade"

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"humans are fractals and its all neck"

--@avocadoarms

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"hey who's Andre Standable?"

--@avocadoarms

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"Luigi had begun spiralling"

-- @apogeeofunoriginality

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"yknow, grounding? put me in the ground!"

--@ashaephoenix

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roll20: ah fuck, that's hide

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"barack obama's brother, mark obama"

--@avocadoarms

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"i'm not an athlete. i'm gay"

-- ish

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"your asscheeks do not have consent"

--@alphajp98

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"i think youre having like a crisis or something but i don't remember"

--@avocadoarms to @ashaephoenix