Useful phrases Duolingo has taught me this week

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Trying Duolingo for the first for our upcoming Italian trip. This week I have learnt to say :
They are not forks
The horses drink the milk.

I wanted to learn how to order a g&t and teach my husband how to ask for the bill.

I’ve been learning Greek since January and can now say useful things.

The first few weeks were mostly learning how to point out the pink gorilla to my Mother, you know, in case she hadn’t noticed such a commonplace thing herself.

I can say "my dog sells hats" in Japanese. 私の犬は帽子が売ります

I think Memrise is far better

I can say I like ironing in Welsh! (I dont!)

Omg yes!!! I am on day 213 with Duolingo but I also back it up with a class once a week. When my DH asks, do I really need to pay out for classes as I’m doing so well with Duolingo, I point out that almost never in my life have I told someone that “my car is very elegant” 😂
I do really enjoy it though!

Some really helpful phrases I've learned from Duo and his pals have been:

"There is blood on the ticket."

"My horse is not an artist, but an architect."

The screenshot is my favourite, though.

Yes! I'm on about day 165, and phrases like 'Miguel has two pretty bicycles' are still cropping up. I have to keep reminding myself that although as a phrase it has very limited usefulness, it's useful practice at making sure things agree (number, gender)...

I'm on day 763 with Spanish and it still feels like a long way to go - butI'm enjoying the process - not trying to gulp it down like fast food but accepting that the process is going to take time - perhaps I do too much repetition and not enough moving forward on to new lessons - I try and strike a balance but some days after I've fixed the 3 cracked eggs I don't always do much more.

The stupid sentences used to bother/annoy me at the start - "Pedro has big pants", "The horse has closed all the windows" etc but I can see I'm making progress. I was on DL for nearly 2 year before I paid for the annual subscription that is only offered at a good discount around xmas time - I had only been on it for about 6-7 months the first time I saw the offer and still wasn't sure if I would stick with it but the following year I paid for the year - I think it was about 40% off normal price - whatever that was and IMHO - it's well worth it.

For a change from spanish I started Japanese - simply because it is so different and sounds nice IMHO.

I can say "The moose eats the apples" in Swedish.

Non sono forchetti
I cavalli bevono il latte

I am also learning Italian and just wanted to test myself…..

I have been doing it for a while and it gets so much harder the older you get. I used to pick up languages easily and can remember a lot of my school French.

I am also doing the Italian duolingo and know lots about horses drinking milk and the fact that dolohins are not fish.

Have you done the flirting bonus add on OP? I recommend it, it's hilarious

My favourite from doing Italian with Duolingo was ‘who is the man in the bathtub?’

Might come in handy if you find a stranger in your hotel room.

Omg I love these! I thought it was just me.

I followed my dp round for about a week asking these.

I gave up learning about blue ducks in the red river in preparation for a work trip to Lisbon and instead sat with Google translate listening to words and phrases I thought I might need, such as:

Yes, no, please, thank you
Sorry I'm English, excuse me
numbers 1 to 10
a table for X please
Please can I have some alcohol and a plate of custard tarts.

And then I wrote it all down on a piece of paper to refer to.

We went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter in Portuguese if he spoke English, to which he replied 'a little'.

He then proceeded to use his 'little' English to ask us where we were from, was it our first time in Portugal, wasn't the weather hot today, talk about the specials and wine, ask if we'd had a good flight etc etc.

I'm sure the lo also will speak good English. I just want try to make an effort.
Things like:
Please may I have
Names of shops
Days of the week
Numbers
How.much?
I think I will have to rely on Google translate we're leaving Saturday!

Locals

Almost every exercise seems to be about moose, turtles or hedgehogs in the Swedish Duo

I think it depends what you want out of a language learning system. If you want to learn to parrot useful phrases while on a trip, that you forget again afterwards, then Duo is not for you. If you actually want to learn a language, you need to play with it at least as much as you need functional phrases, and that's where building bizarre sentences about horses in hats is quite useful.

I find Duo excellent for starting to get the feel of a language you actually want to learn. It isn't good enough on its own (I find it pretty good for reading and listening, much less good for speaking and writing) but it's free and a fairly painless way of getting orientated in a new language.

I like this introduction to Duolingo from a languages YouTuber

Love this thread!!

I'm doing Greek too and my favourite so far has to be "the pink throne", I don't even want to contemplate a situation where I might need to use that phrase.

My sister and I share Duo specials. My latest good one was "Do you want to take part in a slightly dangerous biological experiment?" (Greek course). Particularly amusing as I had a couple of scientific buddies with me at the time. They said yes ...

I'm using it to learn Welsh and I'm slightly concerned about Owen's obsession with parsnips!

😂