well I'll never be a native speaker so people don't think that much less of me when I bobble a gender orally. in writing I always check when I'm not sure. there are too many words to just memorize things, instead through living the language it becomes intuitive.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 21 June 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
Yes, exactly.
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
Unfortunately for me, genders don't always match up between my three romance languages. Il topo, la souris, par exemple.
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
Keep coming across this interesting thing Les fruites = la frutta
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
Some more gender changesla glace, il ghiaccio or il gelatole gril, la griglia
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
Yes on all of those! They are recurring duolingo favs I guess
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
And finally let’s not overlookLe tigre, la tigresse ; la tigre
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
Another singular plural thing they discuss in that tip/note:la pasta; la pâte, les pâtes
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
More gender switches:la nourriture, il cibole papillon, la farfalla
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
I never knew this French word for penguin, manchot.
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
Pingouin is more common.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
i turned on two languages i've studied before, german and russian, and took the test-outs for them to unlock more than the first lesson in each course. although i only have ~three years of college russian from twenty years ago that is severely atrophied, i was still able to unlock more of the language for that than for german, in which i can read some philosophy tentatively (because of the limited vocabulary—the newspaper or novels are more challenging), because i learned only to read it grad-student style, not to speak it, and am terrible at genders and articles and basic conversational sentence structures ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― j., Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:59 (three years ago) link
I’d like to learn German next. I can’t even read philosophy in it, but I can hack through math texts with a dictionary. I end up in Germany pretty often too, so I’ll get rl practice.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
Don't *think* you will have too much problem with German grammar, but you get much less vocabulary coming from English than you do for French.
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
12 minutes to reset.
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
And I'm through!
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
I am legend.Good job!You finished #1 and kept your position in the Diamond League
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
it's all downhill from here
― j., Monday, 22 June 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
Don't I know it.
― Colonel Radle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 01:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M
How many XP are you getting a week, roughly? I've been coasting in Amethyst league for months as 200-300 XP is my norm.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 22 June 2020 09:48 (three years ago) link
700 or so?
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 22 June 2020 09:55 (three years ago) link
Euler, I found an French to Italian grammar book I bought a while back that I can recommend to you of you'd like.Also, would you guys like to know how many XPs I got last week in order to achieve my first place finish? Warning: not for the faint of heart.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
reggae mike love (polyphonic)2y agoDuolingo is a great way to absorb language basics and grammar rules, but once you have that stuff down and are in the mode of adding vocabulary I found it kind of inefficient.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
Sure, I'd be happy to hear the recommendation.
That seems right about Duolingo, but I really just want the basics. I'll never write like Victor Hugo, but I've hacked together my own weird style.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 22 June 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I still use it a lot, but that statement is a worthwhile caveat in the face of the temptation to view it as one-stop shopping.The book I am recommending is Le Robert & Nathan grammaire de l'italien. My francophilia has waned significantly over the years, but man they sure seem to know how to write a dictionary or a grammar book.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
Nice. We have a number of student Robert dictionaries around the house, since they've been required for my kids, who are just in regular French public schools. (& boy do they love ribbing me on my French.)
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 22 June 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
That's good, it means they are picking up the cultural cues and fitting in!
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
We've been here six years now (plus they spent another year here about 5 years before that), so they're fully integrated now.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 22 June 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
Yep, tell us how many XP you needed to back the Diamond #1 slot. I'm sitting down in preparation...
― brain (krakow), Monday, 22 June 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
6650. Guy behind me had 5550 but at one point his weekly running total was on the order of 9000 XP.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
Ooft, amazing! I might see if I can at least get up to the Diamond League in the next few weeks.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 22 June 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
If I look at my XPs in the past week I had two days at about 740, two near 1110, two near 1480, the other is not showing, you can do the math.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
My toughest competition this week did 4500 XPs last week.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
But he’s already got 2200 today.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 June 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
Came to post: un sac, una borsa
Nice
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 22 June 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
I caught up to that other guy after he went to sleep and then some but feel a little strange about it. We’ll see what he does overnight.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
an endless game of tit-for-tat
― j., Tuesday, 23 June 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
Like Danny DeVito and Richard Dreyfuss in Tin Men.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 03:55 (three years ago) link
Euler did we do la torta, le gâteau yet?
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
No but it’s another good one
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 23 June 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
Those things cause more of a brain freeze than I would have imagined
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 00:18 (three years ago) link
Finnish!
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link
Wow
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 11:04 (three years ago) link
Kiitos
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
Could be fun, I spend a lot of time there.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
At first glance this looks better than the dreaded Hungarian course.
― Barry "Fatha" Hines (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 June 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link