matt

learning languages i don’t need. not trying very hard. going well so far 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇩🇪

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on Duolingo?

come say ciao

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took about 7 goes ffs 🙈

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would be good to see <time spent> and <lessons completed> in those weekly stats

one day

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tough week but we’re not out of this yet

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@silentowl59 c’est très sympa de toi, merci

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learning French and moving house are two very challenging things to juggle

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thanks for the carry @MattLearnsLingo

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@BritishBC @MattLearnsLingo multilingualism definitely isn’t a necessity, i’d argue that’s one of the biggest reasons most native English speakers only ever half-arse another language

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there are tens of millions of duolingo users yet 99% of them really aren’t that bothered about learning a language

how do you explain that?

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thing i love about video call is you can just babble on and on about absolute nonsense

and even if your tenses and grammar are all over the place lily still gets what you’re trying to say

i’ve never felt so comfortable speaking another language

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that, i do believe, can be regarded as ‘consistency’

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never really understood this daily quest

you only get like one roleplay a unit 🤷‍♂️

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a little in the morning
a little at night
score keeps rising

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love how randomly specific these units have become on the French course

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so, just hit 64 in French 🇫🇷

the goal is 130 (Upper B2)

to get there this time next year, i’d need to increase my score roughly every 5 days

that means 2 units a day, every day

allons-y 💪

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don’t tell me Duolingo doesn’t teach practical vocabulary

we just had the most wonderful discussion about the merits of becoming a penguin

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guess it makes sense though

don’t think anyone was really signing up for Max *because of* EMA (for me at least it was all about Video Call)

+ it basically replaced the old answer comments, which used to be free

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well i didn’t see that coming

https://t.co/pGA2OaoV38

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i think the hardest thing about learning a language is knowing you really don’t need to learn it

you can just roll with English knowing pretty much every door will open for you

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Duolingo’s friend quests have taken an interesting turn

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i used to tell people not to bother with leagues on Duolingo

but honestly these days it can be the only thing that can get me to bash out my 30 minutes