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 can say the Norwegian cats a wizard in Finnish. Though help, there is an rlk in the toilet might actually be useful.

love this thread. I am on portuguese and can say quite a lot of phrases involving keys, apples and armadilloes.

Very much enjoying this thread. I'm also doing Italian, and now have ability to say 'our bear eats the jam' which will come in v handy on a family holiday. Especially if our bear breaks into someone else's house and nicks their breakfast items.

Dw i ddim yn hoffi smwddio hefyd!

@Retrievemysanity Haha, I get like that in the taxi too! My pronunciation isn't great though, so the taxi driver probably hears the equivalent of "Shooping sontre!" " Wotter perk!" 😆

I wonder if it's Italian, these are the first things Duolingo taught me in Spanish! Though also loved the attached

It’s not to teach you holiday stuff though it’s to learn a language. I’ve been learning Spanish and it’s fab

I have to admit I pretty much gave up at this point - not Duos fault it was a combination of the end of lockdown, my horror at discovering just how complex Polish is (I just couldn't get my head around the structure/ complete word changes when the tense changes etc) and learning that the Polish person I was hoping to meet one day and so wanted to be able to speak to (but not to ask if eggs are veg) had passed away. I hope you have more success than me!

I'm learning Italian and I could say "you are mine until I die" before I could count to ten.

I bloody hated duolingo. Spanish. I got sick to death of Jose liking apples, and since it's American there was a lot of asking people how many condos they own in Mexico. Very useful.

I’ve not had anything odd in Spanish beyond a lot of talking about apples. But I get it. Repetition and odd phrases help you learn and encode a language.

@APJ1 so glad it’s not just me! I just feel so pleased to understand things. The kids are mortified.

@OttersMayHaveShiftedInTransit you'd think having had a Polish Grandparent I'd be able to speak the language fluently. It was hardly ever spoken. I really wish now I'd asked my Grandad to teach me Polish when I was younger. I'm hoping to over to Poland one day so even being able to get by on basic words will do me although being able to speak more fluently would be better

My sister was using it for French and was telling me that she learnt the phrase 'there is a pig in the garden' and thinking this completely pointless only to find herself saying that exact phrase (in English) the next day- the dogs pig toy was in the garden!

I learnt how to say 'I hope we don't see any dead bodies on our walk today' in Italian. That would obviously spoil the walk.

The German version really wanted me to know how to say "cows don't wear hats". I mean they don't but it didn't come up in conversation once on our two week holiday. I was disappointed. We had learnt various animal words though and actually used them at the dinner table with our friends' kids, asking them about their favourite animals! Couldn't string a sentence together, though.

@Hoping several Polish friends/acquaintances told me I was mad for trying to learn and warned me it was a tricky language. I know a couple of UK living Poles who say their children insist on being spoken to in English because Polish is too hard. I will go back to it one day.

Well thanks to this thread I have now discovered duolingo and signed up

Im finding it a bit mysterious, what is an XP and do you just log in each day to do your lesson? It doesnt seem to explain anywhere how it works. Ive done a first lesson tonight and its about boys and girls and eating apples, him, he, the woman, the man etc

Trying to improve my irish.

Today's gem: when the great famine came my ancestors died.

They're not wrong. Also the early stages mentioned crabs a lot.

I love Duolingo. It won't teach you to speak fluently (because to do that you need a human to talk to), but I don't think there's anything better for learning to translate and learn vocabulary. The daft sentences purposefully make you translate things you'll never have heard before or won't be able to guess from context - and hopefully you'll never need to say "Why did you lick John's bike?", but if you can say it you know about possessives, past tense, asking questions - actually useful stuff.

But if you want a phrasebook for your holidays, it's not the right app, no.

In Scottish Gaelic you learn how to say "Donald has a bonnet but no pants", which raises many questions 🤔 😉

Fluenz is my go to

teaches grammar and structure - vocab you can easily look up once you know how
to structure a sentence

I do Spanish. This week I learned how to say We laugh when my dog speaks in Spanish 😆

Dw in hoffi smwddio

"In Scottish Gaelic you learn how to say "Donald has a bonnet but no pants"
Do you move on to singing 'Donald Where's Your Troosers' in Gaelic as the next lesson?