ItWasNiceKnowingYou Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 15 minutes ago, Laurann said: I would actually join a Spanish and/or Italian club if you decide to start those. I can do that if you guys like too! maybe i'll get back into it Link to post Share on other sites
njosnavelin Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 I have been on Turkish. The clubs that I have joined are small and inactive. I eventually leave. Dagnabit you and your popular languages. Link to post Share on other sites
ItWasNiceKnowingYou Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 5 minutes ago, njosnavelin said: I have been on Turkish. The clubs that I have joined are small and inactive. I eventually leave. Dagnabit you and your popular languages. I've been on Esperanto & German and the clubs aren't as big there either Link to post Share on other sites
Piotrek Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 By the way, is the translation/immersion feature still a thing on Duolingo? If so, how do I activate it? I remember not being able to find any tab for it (I was subscribed for Spanish and German). Link to post Share on other sites
Rynn Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 1 hour ago, Piotrek said: By the way, is the translation/immersion feature still a thing on Duolingo? If so, how do I activate it? I remember not being able to find any tab for it (I was subscribed for Spanish and German). I just looked it up. It's gone. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Invisible Pumpkin Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 On 22/7/2017 at 11:22 AM, SimplyAce said: @Yato God of Tofu I have tried recently to learn Spanish and it was soooooooooooo frustrating because my brain wants to go "Where TF are the accents?! Why are you saying every letter?! Why are we rolling and trolling?!?!?!?!?!?! SPANISH QUIT TROLLING ME" ... So i stopped for the time being I mean I want to learn Spanish, but my chances of becoming fluent in it are very slim to none. I can read it though. It's just frustrating because it's like it is new...but not at the same time https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acentuación_del_idioma_español https://www.uv.es/ivorra/cosas/acentos.htm https://campusvirtual.ull.es/ocw/pluginfile.php/4162/mod_resource/content/0/OA_Tilde/reglas_bsicas_palabras_agudas_llanas_esdrjulas_sobresdrjulas.html All in Spanish haha!! I'm interested in someone who I can speak (like skype speak) in English with, I speak Spanish. Link to post Share on other sites
ItWasNiceKnowingYou Posted July 23, 2017 Author Share Posted July 23, 2017 Just now, Iam-me said: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acentuación_del_idioma_español https://www.uv.es/ivorra/cosas/acentos.htm https://campusvirtual.ull.es/ocw/pluginfile.php/4162/mod_resource/content/0/OA_Tilde/reglas_bsicas_palabras_agudas_llanas_esdrjulas_sobresdrjulas.html All in Spanish haha!! I'm interested in someone who I can speak (like skype speak) in English with, I speak Spanish. SPANISH WHY?!?!?!?! now i am going to sit here and try to verbally pronounce everything!!! Ugh *drops head on desk* I wouldn't mind helping you at all Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Invisible Pumpkin Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 1 minute ago, SimplyAce said: SPANISH WHY?!?!?!?! now i am going to sit here and try to verbally pronounce everything!!! Ugh *drops head on desk* I wouldn't mind helping you at all I could try to help you . Although I would need time to search for good links or resource of the topics you don't understand so well, because it's not common that people can just sit and talk about "agudas, graves, esdrújulas y sobresdrújulas" so casually, unless you in fact teach Spanish to speakers of other languages. Link to post Share on other sites
ItWasNiceKnowingYou Posted July 23, 2017 Author Share Posted July 23, 2017 Just now, Iam-me said: I could try to help you . Although I would need time to search for good links or resource of the topics you don't understand so well, because it's not common that people can just sit and talk about "agudas, graves, esdrújulas y sobresdrújulas" so casually, unless you in fact teach Spanish to speakers of other languages. Any help is appreciated O-O Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Invisible Pumpkin Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Just now, SimplyAce said: Any help is appreciated O-O I'll PM you later. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 I joined the French club! Link to post Share on other sites
ben8884 Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 I joined the French one is there one for German? Link to post Share on other sites
Rynn Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 1 minute ago, ben8884 said: I joined the French one is there one for German? Not yet I think. You could make an AVEN German club and post the code here I'll join, I'm going on holidays to the Czech Republic through Germany in a couple of days, so I'm brushing up on my German. Link to post Share on other sites
ben8884 Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 Club made! D46ZF5 Link to post Share on other sites
Rynn Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 @ben8884 Wow now that's a streak! Are you aiming for a full year? Link to post Share on other sites
ben8884 Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 For French yes. Honestly I am not so active in German Link to post Share on other sites
Rynn Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 25 minutes ago, ben8884 said: For French yes. Honestly I am not so active in German I'm not usually very interested in German either, but as a Dutch person I sort of feel obligated to be able to speak it? and I will probably need it in the Czech Republic, so I'm trying to teach myself an entire language in a couple of days XD. Wish me luck! Link to post Share on other sites
ItWasNiceKnowingYou Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 @ben8884 cool!!! Mind if i add the club to my original post? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 I consider making an Italian club but I don't understand the point, it doesn't seen like the club feature even lets members talk or share resources, I don't use duolingo so much now because it is designed for beginners and both the italian and japanese are far too beginner for me Getting rid of immersion was a big mistake of duolingo, it was the best part of the site for non beginners Link to post Share on other sites
Ashmedai Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 I'm in Duolingo's Dutch Facebook group, where myself and another started a Duo Dutch group on skype. That however died, although I have heard a lot of those people moved to Whatsapp. Link to post Share on other sites
Piotrek Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 On 26.07.2017 at 6:52 AM, Ms. Maya the Bee said: I consider making an Italian club but I don't understand the point, it doesn't seen like the club feature even lets members talk or share resources, I don't use duolingo so much now because it is designed for beginners and both the italian and japanese are far too beginner for me Getting rid of immersion was a big mistake of duolingo, it was the best part of the site for non beginners Wait, you can't do that? So what can you do in those clubs? I lost interest in DL after completing my Spanish tree, which actually happened really quickly. No surprise, seeing as I had learned Spanish for a few years and only wanted to refresh it. I never had the opportunity to use the immersion, but it seems like everyone speaks highly of it. Why would DL disable something that was apparently very popular? Link to post Share on other sites
BionicPi Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 Finally cleared enough phone space for DL! EDIT:Wow the phone app is better... Link to post Share on other sites
Piotrek Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 @Laurann @SimplyAce @Ms. Maya the Bee Do you know of any YT channels with Spanish and Italian content that use subtitles? I usually have problems with listening comprehension and I don't know how to improve it. Link to post Share on other sites
ItWasNiceKnowingYou Posted August 5, 2017 Author Share Posted August 5, 2017 4 minutes ago, Piotrek said: @Laurann @SimplyAce @Ms. Maya the Bee Do you know of any YT channels with Spanish and Italian content that use subtitles? I usually have problems with listening comprehension and I don't know how to improve it. I am not sure with any including subtitles..... Maybe @Iam-me may know some? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Invisible Pumpkin Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 5 hours ago, SimplyAce said: I am not sure with any including subtitles..... Maybe @Iam-me may know some? I don't know any yet, although I could do a search although it could be good if there is a preferable topic. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 19 hours ago, Piotrek said: @Laurann @SimplyAce @Ms. Maya the Bee Do you know of any YT channels with Spanish and Italian content that use subtitles? I usually have problems with listening comprehension and I don't know how to improve it. I looked through the italian channels I'm subscribed to and the only thing I really got is that the songs on this channel have subtitles https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3c8aE_AxIa7wmE-4czGw5w Not many channels include subtitle options... Listening comprehension can be tough to learn but I recommend continuing to listen to content in the languages even if you don't fully understand it, just try to pick up on what you can understand Link to post Share on other sites
ItWasNiceKnowingYou Posted August 6, 2017 Author Share Posted August 6, 2017 7 minutes ago, Ms. Maya the Bee said: I looked through the italian channels I'm subscribed to and the only thing I really got is that the songs on this channel have subtitles https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3c8aE_AxIa7wmE-4czGw5w Not many channels include subtitle options... Listening comprehension can be tough to learn but I recommend continuing to listen to content in the languages even if you don't fully understand it, just try to pick up on what you can understand Thank Maya! @Piotrek I think @Ms. Maya the Bee and @Iam-me answered your questions Link to post Share on other sites
Piotrek Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Thanks, @Ms. Maya the Bee The problem is that when the content is solely in the target language you have nothing to check it against. You may have understood it correctly or misheard something (hence the whole "misheard lyrics" meme on YT ) or just be completely "at sea" and you won't know what the correct version is. There are sites like rhinospike.com where people may figure it out for you, btw. (except this one had few users, last time I checked). I suddenly remembered that you can watch "The Age of Stupid" (a film about global climate change) with Italian subtitles on YT. Someone uploaded it in 15 min chunks. Part 1 can be found here: Spoiler @Iam-me The topic is not that important at this point. JUst some authentic subtitled audio materials on YT to practice listening comprehension on. Link to post Share on other sites
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