#duolingo story

[aleatoryw]

getting blazed as fuck in public, thinking "boy I sure hope no one knows how high I am right now", and then having the jumpscare of your life when duolingo gives you this notification

#for context it says ''how high your streak is!'' but it crops at just the right point in the text and i misread it every time 💀 #duolingo #unironically though i really like the characters in the duolingo stories i think they're fun

[returntoaranara]

My favourite part from Duolingo's story 😂🦜

#duolingo #duolingo story #you are not maria #duolingo spanish course

[verycrazycazy]

From Jere’s IG stories 😁 the Liverpool accent is strong!

#I love this clip #from Jere’s IG stories #I felt the same way the first time I opened Duolingo #käärijä #esc 2023

[ly0nstea]

Apologies to @sleepycrowhours for stealing the tags but i want to make a point about learning irish (and I think it applies to language learning as a whole) Duolingo (especially the app, the website is better to be fair but not by much) shouldn't be your primary, or even secondary resource for language learning, it should be a supplement, like flash cards because that's basically what duolingo (Esp. the app) is. It's electronic flash cards, it's nice for vocabulary but horrible for learning grammar, it's yes or no, right or wrong, and language is more fluid than that.

In colloquial speak, if you get it more or less right, the speaker will probably get it, (especially with something as minor as séimhiú and urú which is the english equivalent to switching his/her/their, while duolingo will tell you a sentence is a complete bust if you replace gcat with chait with cat which contexually, speakers will fix themselves and probably won't even mention it to you. Not to mention language is fluid, speakers won't talk like a text book, they'll use conjunctions and phrases you dont know, they'll invent words on the fly.

You should always be learning from books, movies (Yu Ming is ainm dom or cáca milis for irish aimed at young children, an cailín ciúin for more general cinema), poetry (géibheann, an gnáthrud, etc.), music (Teir abhaile riú, oró sé do bheatha 'bhaile, an dreolín, etc.), tv (all of TG4, they have spongebob), RTE player is available for free online.

Buying an irish enlish dictionary, using focloir and teanglann, and reading grammar books will help, writing irish helps too because it makes you look up words you dont know. I had no idea how to use the subjunctive and imperative before, now i do.

All of the info i wrote about séimhiú's and urú's can be found with google, and all of my words of the day are on focloir and teanglann.

tl;dr, using only duolingo is going to give you more robotic speak that even textbook, your vocab will be kind of weird and hyper-specific (kinda like how only learning in a classroom only teaches you to speak about yourself and your family and nothing else). Read irish, write irish, live irish. Remember, you weren't taught your native tongue formally, 80% of what you learn comes from just picking up and talking to people, family, friends, teachers, and maybe 20% was taught in the first few years of school (and a lot of that is written/spelling anyway not actually communicating)

#this is coming from someone with a 40 streak and 4.5 gold units on duolingo #i use it everyday #but its not a good resource to learn how to use a language #i guess its okay for hammering in spellings #but #it doesnt tell you why #so #moral of the story #dont rely on duolingo #irish #irish langblr #irish language #language #linguistics #langblr #languages #language learning

[magistralucis]

HELLO?!?!?! 😲😳🤪

#duolingo #duolingo stories #languages #langblr #russian langblr #that is at least where i got this story from #again: who the fuck is writing the duolingo stories?!?!?!?!?! #junior owning his dad forever and ever

[wtfduolingo]

Ähm... Ich weiß auch nicht, was bedeutet genau BKA?? I wonder what BKA means...

...Bunte Keksagentur???

#duolingo #german #duolingo stories #submission

[the-great-bonkings]

Sooo the characters in Duolingo suddenly vanished and it feels like the beginning of a creepypasta.

#creepypasta #creepy #horror #horror story #duolingo #duolingo creepypasta #glitch #blursed #cursed #meme

[baejax-the-great]

Odysseus definitely has a fake driver's license because he couldn't be bothered to stand in line at the Greek DMV

#also because of that one accident when he killed every passenger in his minivan #also because he refuses to pull over when he hears sirens #Sunset Odysseus is a lobbyist for big pharma btw #he's not in the story but that's what he's doing #Odysseus #btw the greek course on duolingo IS terrible and I do not recommend it #unless you are remarkably bored and already speak the three most popular languages on the planet

[the-nihongo-adventure]

fellow duolingo user: how did you feel about duo's new 'learning path' update?

me:

#duolingo #japanese #langblr #but like seriously #i do miss the tree and the crowns so much #plus the stories😭

[writerofstuff]

I am not a native Swedish speaker. I am trying to learn Swedish. So far I am armed with a hundred words, three grammar concepts, and one little green bird that likes to make many funny faces at my language-learning skills. I tried to write a story.

Du simmar. Jag tittar på du ofta. Du tycker om vatten och vatten tycker om dig. Ursäkta, jag tror jag älskar dig.

You swim. I watch you often. You like water and water likes you. Excuse me, I think I love you.

Guide me; tell me what I did right and what I can do better. I have stumbled across something beautiful and would like to hold it closer.

#language #swedish #learning a language #writing #writers on tumblr #stories #duolingo #duolife #the little green bird is trying

[concerningduolingo]

I didn't realize you were alive still

- @duolingo-unofficial

Periodically inactive but still utterly committed to the owl.

#long story short i'm in my student teaching semester lol #but i'm 1 day away from my 1600 day streak rest assured we're alive and kicking #i should queue up some submissions for y'all #thanks duolingo unofficial sometimes i just need a bonk #mod lauren #duolingo #langblr

[fungusqueen]

I'm only 9 days away from a 1,000 day streak on Duolingo, and I want to do something to celebrate but I'm not sure what. Also, I haven't had Spanish class in two weeks because of the holiday and in those two weeks I've witnessed some really evil shit that I want to learn how to talk about in Spanish so I need to learn some new words I've never had to learn before this, so that I can maybe tell my teacher about it

#i restarted duolingo when the pandemic started #and i just haven't stopped #in class we share stories in spanish to practice discussing our lives #and sharing about ourselves #so im always looking for new ways to discuss the past week or things ive done #like my classmate told us all the story of how he was hit by a car #and then I told the story about how I almost drowned in the ocean but a stranger saved me #and we're like #como se dice ambulance #como se dice lifeguard #and our teacher helps us fill in the gaps #but we also learn together if someone introduces a new conversational word or phrase

[maluron]

today in my German lesson two aging gentlemen were listening to the song they danced to on their very first date thirty years prior OH THE FEELS OH

#duolingo #old man yaoi #happy anniversary to anton and roland #this song may sound boring to someone else but this is OUR song #and then they held hands and they had another dance #bwaaaaah #insert inelegant blubbering here #listen here if your life goals don't involve being featured into a cute duolingo story wherever is the romance?

[hearts4moametal]

duolingo getting a little too existential these days

#duolingo #zari duolingo #funny story #hehe haha #everything changes #duo seriously what is this.

[magistralucis]

WHO THE FUCK IS WRITING THE DUOLINGO STORIES?!?!?!

#duolingo #languages #langblr #duolingo stories #russian duolingo #(i'm on the native russian -> english track because i finished english -> russian some time ago) #these are some of the most unhinged writing i've seen even in a stilted exercise book format

[quibbs126]

I thought this line from a Duolingo lesson I did was funny

#I’d say “god I feel that” #but I don’t like mayo #if it were chocolate or something that’d be a different story #but I feel the general sentiment #aces be like #(I dunno does that work?) #duolingo #asexual #random stuff #mayonnaise