Subliminal messaging by the Duolingo owl. But I’m surprised the messaging isn’t more homicidal, considering it’s constant threat to murder me and my family if I don’t keep up my lessons.
“my wish is to kill more for the bird.”
Duolingo is wild
Submitted 9 months ago by pH3ra@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
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Gork@lemm.ee 9 months ago
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 9 months ago
I lost my streak yesterday… I fear for my life. Can any man or god help me, or am I now beyond salvation? I plan to sacrifice hours in the name of the owl today. Deo Duo da mihi salutem, Amen.
name_NULL111653@pawb.social 9 months ago
lole@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 months ago
Average vegan.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well you do use it to learn words and context, if learning français you do need to learn killing as well
OozingPositron@feddit.cl 9 months ago
Least violent Frenchman.
arymandias@feddit.de 9 months ago
Make a cookie clicker that makes you feel like you’re learning a language, mix in some strange sentences for free meme advertising, add a weirdly violent owl. Boom infinite money unlocked.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Oscar has the most out of pocket sentences in every language.
chetradley@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Unit one: French fries and milk please.
Unit eight: You will not find the children.
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nothing beats Junior talking about his job or children.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
If you really want to learn a language ditch this garbage and try comprehensible Input.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Duolingo is a good tool for stuff that flashcards are good for - learning letters/alphabets/symbols, learning new words, basic sentence structure/grammar, etc. It’s one good tool for language learning, but it won’t do the whole job by itself. Certainly not garbage, as long as you use the tool correctly.
zammy95@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah that’s pretty much where I’m at. I joined my buddy in his wife’s Japanese club, but I know absolutely nothing. Trying Duolingo primarily to learn the alphabets. It’s not perfect, but I can recognize them all and read Hiragana, so it’s not completely worthless!
Didn’t help me learn how to wite at ALL though. Too little practice, it’s definitely a tool (for some languages as least) that’s meant to be used with other learning methods
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 9 months ago
I was just looking this up and it sounds like a teaching technique more than an alternative. Is there some website or app that uses that technique? It sounds great to me.
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I already answered a comment above explaining everything I know.
Fridgeratr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ok. How do I do that?
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
You don’t need any app, although you could probably find dozens by searching ‘comprehensible input’ on YouTube. Comprehensible Input is achieved by watching and reading the content you enjoy in your target language, and rely on context to understand and acquire the language . I am a polyglot, and after mastering French, I transitioned to English around 2017. Now, enough people have told me that my English is decently good, so since January of this year, I am now learning Spanish by watching lets plays of indie games and reading tech news articles.
I will probably start watching cartoons too. Something like the early seasons of spongbob square pants would be great because each episode is self-contained and humorous.
Here are some tips:
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Learn the bare minimum vocabulary needed to have a general understanding of what’s being said. Words such as conjunctions (and, but, etc.), prepositions (under, above, in, out, etc.), adverbs (fast, often, very, etc.), interrogatives (how, when, who, etc.), important adjectives (colors, tall, short, etc.), and the 100 most used verbs (be, have, want, do,say, go etc.). The goal is to later acquire new words from context alone.
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At first, you will not be able to understand new words from context alone most of the time , so you’ll need to check the dictionary very often. Over time, you’ll rely on context alone.
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Depending on the target language, you don’t need to focus much on grammar, but don’t omit it completely. It’s easier to just learn why the sentence is the way it is, than to slowly memorize the correct structure.
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Mastering a language is a long process. Depending on how far or close your target language is to your native one, it’ll probably take you from 6 months to 2 years to acquire enough of the language where you’ll unlock the full potential of passive learning and you’ll slowly master your target language by just consuming the media of said language.
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Num10ck@lemmy.world 9 months ago
turn on subtitles and watch some foreign flicks
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We’ve come a long way from my French class showing me episodes of French in Action on PBS.
Oh Mireille, we will never find each other and kindle our romance. Curse you, Robert!
bruhduh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Slay
bruhduh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
c/shitduolingosay
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
he’s just a pacifist
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
And yet the Klingon lessons are “the men and women walk” and “Martok and Torg respect Kahless” and “the soldier repaired Mara’s robot”.
grue@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Maybe you’ve got to get farther into them to learn how to express your bloodlust?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I know all the right words for “want” and “kill”, I’m just not advanced enough to be able to correctly say “I want to kill you”. Maybe “SoH HoH jIneH”? I have SO much to learn.