Learning languages with Duolingo

Wheniwasyourage types faster than me!!?

Aggie - if you open a French lesson, go up to the top of the page and click on the (presumably French) flag on the left hand side, it'll open up the flags of any other languages you might be doing. Click on the Scottish flag.

Fàilte! Welcome! (haven't learned how to say "welcome back" yet.....)

Go to the French flag at the top of the page, aggie and hover on it, and you will see a saltire below it. If you click on the saltire you'll get back to Gaelic.

I was doing Scottish Gallic (spelling ? ) , my granddaughters are fluent, they enjoyed my efforts , but someone put French on and now I can’t get back to the original !
Any ideas how I can go back to Gallic?

Va bene !

mi scusi Lucca - my typo

StarDreamer

> io una donna

io sono una donna

or

sono una donna

either being correct.

This is interesting, because I have been using Duolingo for twenty-something days now and at various times I have had a go at the first lesson or two of various language, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, from zero and I tried a placement with French (and a couple of others). Of those I have named I have not gone back to them since as I felt that I should concentrate on one and I chose Welsh. Now I am hoping to try to learn some Italian, at a gentle pace in a group in a Gransnet thread while continuing to learn Welsh on my own. I went to evening classes in Italian in the 1970s so I remember a bit, but I either never knew, or had forgotton about the word for "the" is sometimes "lo". (lowecase l not Capital I) and I have now learned that from Duolingo.

So maybe I will get similar emails from Duolingo, or maybe not as I am using Duolingo for other languages.

Io sono un uomo.

Io una donna. Not correct.

Sono una donna. Correct
Io sono una donna (as i explained on a other thread) for emphasis . Maura è una ragazza ma io sono una donna.(Maura is a girl but I am a woman)

The word 'athrawes' means 'a female teacher' in Welsh. There is no indefinite article in Welsh.

Noswaith dda, Athrawes.

Good evening, Athrawes.

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Athrawes dych chi, Athrawes?

Are you a teacher, Athrawes?

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Dych chi'n gweithio fel athrawes mewn ysgol?

Do you work as a teacher in a school?

Noswaith dda, Athrawes I have learned the word 'athrawes' in the Duolingo Welsh course this evening.

Athrawes dych chi, Athrawes?

Dych chi'n gweithio fel athrawes mewn ysgol?

People have different ways of learning Athrawes, if it works for you just go with it

I tried having a notebook to jot things down but somehow my brain wasn't happy about it so I write down words on pieces of paper which I peg together. I'm finding that very helpful as I get to know where the words are on the various scraps. I think I must be a bit odd!!!!

I like the idea of keeping my streak by doing some Duolingo every day.

Sometimes I do a detailed session for an hour or more, moving forward at a gentle pace through two lesson. On some days I just do two lessons from a higher level of a "circle" of which I had completed the basic level some time before. Sometimes one of each. The first one keeps the streak. The second one completes my daily target.

Sometimes I do more than two lessons in a day.

Really I suppose it is a bit silly trying to keep the streak, but in practice it does mean that I do do a bit each day.

Otherwise I might miss a day, then that could be two and before long a week would have passed and I had not looked at it for a week.

So, yes, keeping the streak going has helped me to learn.

Yo soy una mujer. Yo tengo una hija y un hijo. Yo vivo en una casa bonito
I am learning Spanish and loving it. Like Blossoming I want to thank Stardreamer for reminding me of Duolingo. I've used it in the past for refreshing languages I know.

I have today received an invitation to Duocon 2022.

Upon searching for

Duocon

on YouTube I found some videos of presentations from other years.

I have looked at one of them thus far.

Oops - predictive texting meant missed out the sono
At least that's my excuse( "I, a woman," - sounds powerful though!)

I have some cognitive impairment as a result of my brain injury and the DuoLingo teaching method suits me perfectly. Like StarDreamer I use a notebook to jot things down as I work through the lessons and I make much use of the practice function to revisit previous lessons.

I’m getting so much enjoyment from it and I’m grateful to StarDreamer for bringing it to my attention.

> io una donna

io sono una donna

or

sono una donna

either being correct.

This is interesting, because I have been using Duolingo for twenty-something days now and at various times I have had a go at the first lesson or two of various language, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, from zero and I tried a placement with French (and a couple of others). Of those I have named I have not gone back to them since as I felt that I should concentrate on one and I chose Welsh. Now I am hoping to try to learn some Italian, at a gentle pace in a group in a Gransnet thread while continuing to learn Welsh on my own. I went to evening classes in Italian in the 1970s so I remember a bit, but I either never knew, or had forgotton about the word for "the" is sometimes "lo". (lowecase l not Capital I) and I have now learned that from Duolingo.

So maybe I will get similar emails from Duolingo, or maybe not as I am using Duolingo for other languages.

Io sono un uomo.

Yes Maw but it is all very US/sales/games based isn’t it? So the ad is all part and parcel of that approach…

that said, I’m enjoying the way repetition and practice really work for me as a cheapskate leisure learner. I have French thanks to school, UK uni, living in France but I think duolingo+other free resources (including knowing another Romance language) can shortcut a lot of that.

Glad Duo has other interests though.

AIBU to feel infantilised by this communication from Duolingo?
I gave it a go out of curiosity but was quickly frustrated and bored by the repetition of io una donna etc - which was all too much like those Latin lessons aged 11 about puellae. going to the silva which struck me as supremely irrelevant (although I came to enjoy Latin eventually, largely I think because of Caesar’s Gallic Wars)
As for suggesting “university standard Italian” -well I seriously doubt that having studied languages at university and io una donna was not what we were studying!
Good on him for the sourdough though. ??

Thank you, FarNorth.

Thank you, Wheniwasyourage.

I am wondering if as I accumulate lingots whether other offers will become available.

No, nothing else seems to become available on the website (I don't use the app), but you can use 10 lingots at a time to do a lesson at Legendary level once you've done the first 5 levels of any topic.

SD I'm in a facebook group of duolingo Gaelic learners.
Some of them are very rigorous about revising lessons and writing everything down. Others, like me, are more casual but still making a bit of progress.

FarNorth

^today I found Manage courses,^

I didn't know about that. Handy to hear.

Yes. I had got a forward placement for French, but I think that I would rather go back to the beginning just in case there is something that I have not remembered from the 1960s or in case there is a word of vocabulary that is used that I never met or never remembered.

For learning Welsh I have an A5 size notebook from Tesco, delivered with my grocery order, a white one, there is a mix of colours but I requested a white one in the picker note. I write notes using a blue ballpoint pen as I proceed. It means I take longer to go through a lesson but I think it helps me to learn.

today I found Manage courses,

I didn't know about that. Handy to hear.