For those who remember Mexican House Thief...

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I give this from DouLingo

Ffs.... I give you

I am doing the Duolingo french course (something to occupy me in lockdown), they seem a bit obsessed with Mexico. European countries are hardly mentioned. I dont know if it is an American company, they use terms like 'restroom' a lot.

I’m learning Welsh with Duolingo and they have done very strange sentences eg Does the cat have a harp? And Eleri has a new dragon.

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I must go into classics and reread that thread

I am doing Finnish and had the dragon sentence too!

Yes, Duolingo is aimed at the US-American learner.
The strange sentences make you take notice of the special grammatical features of your target language, you tend to remember them better that way.
There recently was a convention where they explained about this.

They use quotes from movies, too. And there are mostly volunteers working on the non main stream courses.

Can someone link to the thread?

I'm doing Japanese and they are obsessed with same sex marriage. Every other phrase is "Mrs Honda's wife or my Brother's husband is Canadian". I never knew it was such a Japanese thing! They are also very keen on the restaurant next door being delicious...

Ha, I'm learning Spanish on Duolingo and I don't think I've had this one before! They are unnaturally obsessed with eating apples and drinking milk though.

Can someone post the Mexican house thief thread for me please?

Dying to read it but can't find it!

I'm doing Irish - itheann na turtai cais - the turtles eat cheese :) Also, apparently women drink because men drink!

I'm doing Spanish on duolingo too. I had a translation marked as wrong because I put holiday instead of vacation. It's very American. There are a lot of same sex relationships and a man who said his name was Julia. I like the Goth woman, though, she sounds really fed up.

Mexican House Thief is annoying to find because it's a story by a contributor on a more general thread so really difficult to search for. Someone who can remember the title will be along soon though! @hocuspocusbitch

I think Mexican house thief was on this thread. Amongst other CF stuff?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/1735637-Have-you-ever-encountered-anyone-this-cheeky

I'm learning Norwegian with Duolingo and one of the sentences I got was "The wolf is not eating her."

I can totally see me needing to use that while holidaying in Norway 🤣🤣🤣

I inherited a Berlitz phrase book from my grandfather. One of the phrases was "May I have permission to marry your sister?"

@CaptainMyCaptain click on the flag to report your answer as correct and they will update from that. It happens a lot as you work your way through, the more reports they get the better the understanding of British English it develops

@SilverOtter

I'm learning Norwegian with Duolingo and one of the sentences I got was "The wolf is not eating her."

I can totally see me needing to use that while holidaying in Norway 🤣🤣🤣

I imagine you would preface it with No, no, it’s fine

I'm learning Danish and they're obsessed with groups of people eating apples.

Has anyone ever gone abroad and asked where the library is?

I had this one while practicing my French. I don’t know who ‘he’ is but Duo is a bit judgey

mon voisin a volé ma maison mexicaine

Thanks @SadderThanEeyore I'll do that.