DuoLingo Challenge
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I can't recall my username, but I did sign up because my wife did and I selected German as she had and on the first day, in a couple of hours or so, I just sat there and went through about half of all the available lessons/checkpoints/whatever available just to irritate her before I got bored with it. It's really easy when there's no challenge at all. I then tried Spanish and it was much slower, much, much, much slower when you don't speak the language. Learnin's hard
Edit: I see now they have way more languages, they didn't even have Russian, only Ukrainian for some weird reason, back when I signed up. I think I might sign up for the Hungarian one to see if I can recapture any lost childhood skills since now if I try to speak Hungarian it sounds like someone that was thrown from a moving vehicle and landed on their head. When I was a small child I did much better, I only sounded like one of those moronic children people barely understand, rather than as an adult someone totally incomprehensible.
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New app out this week. Works way better for me on Android.
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
New app out this week. Works way better for me on Android.
New DL app?
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@Obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
New app out this week. Works way better for me on Android.
New DL app?
yes
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Are you still in the Swedish DL club @scottalanmiller? I'm trying to get back into the DL swing.
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@Obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
Are you still in the Swedish DL club @scottalanmiller? I'm trying to get back into the DL swing.
In it, but have been busy. I'll give it a try and see if I can catch up.
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Sunday, February 10
Duolingo Dallas Spanish at Taco Diner
Join us at Taco Diner to practice your Spanish conversation skills and meet your local Duolingo community. Reserve your spot and we’ll see you there at 1.00 PM. ¡Nos vemos!
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Finally, after months and months of simply "testing out" of the new DuoLingo system, I have finally completed it. Those who watch my points know that I've put crazy amounts of effort into getting this "all gold." Maybe six months of huge effort, just to "re-gold" after having made all gold in the older, easier system.
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Spanish completion is 567 crowns.
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Spanish "maxes out" at Level 25, which is a tiny fraction of what is necessary to go gold, not sure why they don't offer more levels than that given how the rest works.
For me to get to completion took 76,853 Spanish points.
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
Finally, after months and months of simply "testing out" of the new DuoLingo system, I have finally completed it. Those who watch my points know that I've put crazy amounts of effort into getting this "all gold." Maybe six months of huge effort, just to "re-gold" after having made all gold in the older, easier system.
Nice! Congrats! I hope to soon achieve the same in the language I'm doing. I've been pushing lately.
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@scottalanmiller That's great. I just recently started back up on this. I also started on Tandem, which allows you to actually speak/chat with other learners. I have a hard time retaining information (language) if I am not speaking it.
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@fuznutz04 said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller That's great. I just recently started back up on this. I also started on Tandem, which allows you to actually speak/chat with other learners. I have a hard time retaining information (language) if I am not speaking it.
Same here. So hard to retain.
Luckily I have to talk to Spanish only staff every day.
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@fuznutz04 said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller That's great. I just recently started back up on this. I also started on Tandem, which allows you to actually speak/chat with other learners. I have a hard time retaining information (language) if I am not speaking it.
Same here. So hard to retain.
Luckily I have to talk to Spanish only staff every day.
That happens with native speakers as well if they don't speak to anyone who speaks their language on a regular basis. I've experienced a bit of that, confusing myself and using the wrong words from the wrong language.
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I would prefer that actually. I wish I were forced to speak to someone in Spanish daily. It would really ramp up learning.
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@fuznutz04 said in DuoLingo Challenge:
I would prefer that actually. I wish I were forced to speak to someone in Spanish daily. It would really ramp up learning.
Well if you want to work on our Panama campus
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
Panama campus
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@fuznutz04 said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
Panama campus
That might be a nice change of scenery. What part of Panama?We are in the city now.
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But we want to move to the peninsula.
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
But we want to move to the peninsula.
Are you living there? You're still in TX Right?
