Last week there was no above a few thousand points so I went for it. This week there is already somebody with 8KP who shows 16KXP for the week.
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
So saving my stuff for a future week. Although I did get a big bonus from a Friend Challenge (new feature) so I racked up a bunch of points just so not as to get relegated.
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
But just chasing points is an empty pursuit and doesn't lead to further understanding, at least based on my anecdotal evidence.
Last week I won with about 4KXP and the other people behind me had 2KXP.
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
My ultimate objective is to become widely known as dr diamond
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
Doctor Diamante!
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
no soy medico.
:(
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
pero me gusta estudiar español!
*stares blankly for an impossibly long time*
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Pobrecito
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
i still believe that there must be a level beyond diamond
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
QUEEN BEE!
― The Crazy World of Encyclopedia Brown (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 June 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
👸 🐝
League Repair? No thanks.
― The Crazy World of Encyclopedia Brown (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 June 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
Just thought of the most obvious dumb and bare minimum way to preserve streak everyday
― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 June 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link
Also somebody told me the other day about preply, which seems to be very similar to italki.
― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 June 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
Major revamp rollout
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 July 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
How do I shot 2X boosts?
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 July 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
some new minigames (see how many you can match) and "daily quests" and animations and stuff...and now I am not merely Duo Plus. I am Super Duo
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 July 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
they added a "perfect lesson boost" for 100 gems, which gives you +10xp for perfect lesson for the next 15 minutes.
honestly, sounds like the kind of thing i would only use if i was falling off of diamond league on sunday night and i was feeling desperate
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 July 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
in other words - hell yeah! when you're feeling the heat in duolingo, you will take any advantage available
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 July 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
But have you seen the Nu-Nu Duo yet? I kind of hate the Match Mini-Game. It goes too fast for my brane.
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 July 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
yeah, i was kind of stressed out by the end of it! but if this is how i can finally tell people that i would like another orange juice please and that the green dresses are very pretty, this is what i have to do.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 July 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
Think maybe I am kind of liking this new upgrade. We will see.
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 July 2022 12:20 (one year ago) link
Some courses got longer, some way longer.
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 July 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
Some voices got treble, some voices got bass.
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 July 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
https://blog.duolingo.com/new-duolingo-home-screen-design/
― Mr. Art-I-Ficial (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 July 2022 11:49 (one year ago) link
https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/6448984613773-Guide-to-understanding-Duolingo-s-new-learning-path
GuidebookAt the start of each unit is a guidebook packed with grammar tips and useful phrases. The guidebook can be accessed any time, even when you complete the unit. NOTE: Guidebooks are not available for all languages.
― Mr. Art-I-Ficial (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 July 2022 12:12 (one year ago) link
Basically think I may prefer this new path version. Not really missing the tips and notes that much since I found them hard to use and ulitimately gave up on them. Wonder if anyone is going to go ahead a write the guidebook for any of the smaller languages, that would be really nice, but I am doubtful.
― Mr. Art-I-Ficial (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 July 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
What we have here is failure to communicate BILINGUALLY!
― L.M.N.O.P.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 July 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
(Strother Martin, I know, I know)
― L.M.N.O.P.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 July 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
The new pathfinder version, which only I seem to have in my circle of friends, basically flattens out the tree which is why any uncompleted tree gets much longer. Still mostly enjoying it, eliminates some of the illusion of choice.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
Really enjoying the Finnish course right now
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 July 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
Currently have 7777 XP for the week- four sevens clash!
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 July 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
I addition to the new single path layout, there is also a feature for some languages to be able to save words and study them through Word Play, although the app sometimes gets confused about which language it is looking at
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 August 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
Seems to be on for Italian, Portuguese and Turkish, although this last one gets mixed up and will take words from other languages.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 August 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
Don’t know if I should tell you how many XPs I have this week.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 August 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
It was north of 16K but I can’t sustain that. In other news, now the single path version allows an easier, low-scoring practice on the individual stepping stones which I find useful, although I usually only do it right behind wherever I am in the path.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 August 2022 12:09 (one year ago) link
top guy in my league right now has 15K points this week, with another day to go. El hombre se encanta estudiar espańol mucho.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
i'm still a little confused by the "single path layout" you're talking about james! i did update my app (to super duper lingo) a few weeks ago and some things changed, but for Spanish the overall layout looks the same. Here's a screenshot of where I am now. It's probably what everyone does but I like to build up my skills to _LEGENDARY_ before going on. my usual practice is to level up 3-4 different skills in waves, like this:
https://i.imgur.com/GrSEG4T.jpg
When I level one up to 4, I'll bring the next one to 3, the next to 2, and then a new one up to 1, then back to the 4 to bring it to 5/legendary, etc. it's slow but I find that it helps me to retain what I'm learning when I do a few different skills at once rather than focusing in on one.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
i can't believe i'm only just now nearing Checkpoint 2 after months of daily usage, but i'm pysched as hell to see what's beyond the the checkpoint. i'm assuming there will be peggle and free prizes, things of that nature
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
if anyone wants to be my duolingo pal, i'm @weinventyou
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
Yay Karl, added you. I'm jaq.m there. I've been working on Spanish forever pero muy despacio and with a very big gap, still a long way from checkpoint 2.
― Jaq, Saturday, 13 August 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
it takes forever! plus i've barely even listened to any of the "Stories". those are actually pretty fun, I just always forget they're there!
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 August 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
Looks like you still have the old layout.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 August 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
To get all teh XPs I kind of had to use a lot of 2X multipliers and build up (in the new format) things to Legendary from the lower levels in multiple languages. I really don't know how people do it week after week in a single language or what the point is.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 August 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
I'm tempted to use this to start learning Finnish. My hesitation is that such a different language probably requires an actual native (or native fluent) speaker to teach it properly.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 13 August 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
I think the Finnish course is pretty good. Much better than the Hungarian course, to name one.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 August 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
Duking it out for third place in the Diamond League *Finals*
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 August 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
Okay, think I burned through almost all of my easy Xpoints.
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
Really came to say that Finnish seems like one of those languages like Norwegian where the offiicial language one is taught differs a lot from the main spoken variants.
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link