Useful phrases Duolingo has taught me this week

[booboo57]

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.

In Ukrainian everyone’s hobby seems to be web design. If they’re not into that they play the banjo.

This thread has me laughing in recognition. I particularly liked those Russian phrases @TealGuitar - so bizarre 😂

I learnt how to say "where should we hide the bodies" in Dutch thanks to Duolingo.

Oh heck.I’m only on week 3 with Duolingo Italian but I have high hopes of politely being able to order full rounds of drinks and food for our holiday next February !

Mine today is “You know that I hate you for this”. Not sure whether that would be useful in an airport when the flight is cancelled

Some of these sentences are hilarious!

We all had to learn to say
La plume de ma tante at school. French for The quill of my aunt. Very useful 😀

When I moved to France in the early 90s, loads of French people said to me "my tailor is rich" - can't remember where the phrase came from but so many people knew it and didn't seem to understand why I looked confused.

You can do as much or as little as you want everyday. It gets you to do lessons in order and if you're using the free version, every mistake you make costs a life and you can let those rebuild over time or by using the practice tools outside the main lessons.

You get xp (experience points) when you complete lessons and challenges to move up the leaderboard. It means nothing but is just gamification to make the app more user friendly.

There are tutorials in the help/settings section.

Crossed with the Sicilian edition, I presume.

That's not quite right. Should be 私の犬は帽子を売ります.

My favourite is sboncen!

Me too OP. I'm now fairly fluent in telling people I have a snake in my boot and that the cows are in the sugar, but no clue how to properly order food & drinks 😄.

Funny! I’ve just started French so reading with interest.

Sboncen sounds so like the actual sound

Does your bedroom have a window?

(Having looked at several houses this year where the bedrooms had no windows, this question is not as stupid as it sounds....)

This is spot on 😂😂

Ha ha. Yeah good ol' duolingo. Are they smoking crack at hq maybe? Went to Mallorca recently. Was downcast at having no real opportunity to tell anyone that Juan como manzanas. That is all I've got.

I did the french DuoLingo course before a holiday this year

it helpfully told me what ‘croissant’ is in French…

I also got the one about the man with the small head in my Russian course, but my favourite was "All cats are the same - fat animals that want only to sleep and eat". It's not entirely inaccurate, but difficult to think of an opportunity to use that phrase verbatim. There was also a lot of mention of snakes (the snake is dead; the snake does not like the sunlight), apples (whose apple is she eating? Is that your apple or mine?) and shshi (mother is cooking shshi for lunch).

I'm now doing a Russian class with an actual teacher and I've been surprised by how little use Duolingo was as a preparatory measure. It's good for learning vocabulary but hopeless for grammar. I've been told that there are proper grammar tables hidden away somewhere on some of the courses, but I never found them myself, so it was impossible to know why you had got something wrong. It doesn't even teach you how to tell the difference between masculine, feminine and neuter nouns, let alone what the endings are for all the different cases.

And that is my point.

if you don’t know the word for an apple or beer you can look it up.

much better to spend time learning the principles of how to conjugate verbs and how to structure sentences - of course that’s the boring bit which not as many people would down load an app for.

I'm finding the "dd" sound a bit challenging. I've watched videos where they say it's basically "th" in English like in "this" and "that", but sometimes when it's pronounced on duolingo it sounds more like an "f"??? (Smwddio is an example where it sounds more like an "f", so I'm really not sure I'm pronouncing it right).

Not quite as challenging as the "ll" sound though! I'm hoping I'll get there with practice.

I found the cow in the sugar a big perturbing 😂

The "dd" in smwddio is definitely a soft "th" sound, like smooth in English. An "f" sound would be "ff" in Welsh.

I love that ironing in Welsh is almost 'smoothie-oh'!