• hypertown@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    That’s why I really don’t recommend Duolingo to anyone. It feels like they google translate solution. My favorite example against Duolingo: 「私はりんごです」 was translated to: “I’m an apple.” Which technically isn’t incorrect but it’s ridiculous and they probably ment to put it like in an answer to a question. “What fruit do you like?” - “As for me an apple”

    Btw why is there so much hiragana in this sentence? I understand they try to make it easy for beginners but seriously it’s almost hard to read not to mention it can create bad habits.

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    2 days ago

    I got that exact one about 6 weeks ago and I reported it. Shame they haven’t fixed it yet 😐

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    Duo seems like they’re churning out AI slop these days, so annoying to have gotten that wrong!

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      I’m not learning Japanese (here from /all), but just to pile on the owl, I am still super salty they removed the community comments. I’m learning Hawaiian, and there just aren’t a lot of other learning resources. Having actual kumus (ʻŌlelo (Hawaiian language) teachers) answering questions about WHY the answer is what it is was super duper helpful.

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    3 days ago

    Using contextual clues, this person’s 😏 face tells you they are messing with you.

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    Yeah, I gave up on Duolingo. I joined a Japanese-English Discord server and feel like my actual conversation skills have gone way up. I’m happy to share the invite link, but I don’t want to seem spammy, so I’ll post it if anyone requests.

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    2 days ago

    How do you get the letters to show up without English above? I’ve been trying to get mine to do that.

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    Yeah, I always wondered if you need to list items backwards when translating because of things like this.