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I didn’t get a different ask from you, I don’t think, apart from that first one about the desktop site? so probably :(
I have used desktop duolingo a bit! At this point about half of what I’ve done has been on the desktop site. It’s… not really that much more comprehensive than the mobile site, there’s just more typing, that I could find. Am I doing it wrong?
Anyway anyone doing duolingo add me! I don’t know what that accomplishes but I love collecting people for some reason. I am apparently called bridget942 over there, for whatever that means!
Oh also I discovered the hard way though that some things don’t count toward your daily totals, so i broke my streak even though i worked on the damn site for like 45 minutes on the day that didn’t count? grr. Apparently Skills just don’t count for anything, and it’s only working on the main tree area that actually counts toward a streak? The day is colored green like the rest of my days, but the streak ends at it and begins again the day after, so that’s a pile of horse shit, why gameify it and then have it so easy to lose at?
I don’t understand the chain or tree thing at all really, but it does help to know that it put me where it did just because nobody gets placed farther along than that. Because most of the lessons are insanely boring so I just fly through them to get to the next thing, and I was wondering what I’d done to get myself placed there. I have the issue, I think, of reasonable underlying fundamentals, but I do sincerely need review, and so being halfway through the chain, most of it’s not advanced enough but then there’s a lot of stuff I’m expected to know that I don’t have any access to review of. It can be really frustrating when they introduce a word I’m expected to know in a way that means I can’t actually learn it. (Like, dictating it and expecting me to transcribe it when I’ve never seen it before. “Ya veras,” the guy said a bunch of times as the very first question of the lesson, and I thought, “isn’t keychain masculine? llaveros? Welp, llaveras, I guess?” WRONG okay but I need more context to randomly guess that you’re conjugating a verb. A longer text, maybe half a sentence at least, would have given me some clue. That was not useful.) But then, most of it is mind-numbing repetition, which is great if you’re learning but less useful if you’re only reviewing.
I’m also getting a little frustrated by how often they’ll mark my answers incorrect when they’re not. But I mean. It doesn’t matter, they’ll just ask again later. But it gets to me, especially when it means it won’t let me test out of a skill I know already. I get it, it’s a game, but I don’t play games so it doesn’t bind to my receptors like it does for a lot of people, LOL.
But I have looked for, and not been able to find, any kind of explanations, verb tables, etcetera– it’s been sort of astonishingly free of context of any kind so far, and I’ve poked around and gotten lost and had to just close out of the site. Is all that stuff under Discussion, and I just have to subscribe to the right ones? I don’t see anything like that. I would love to try my hand at translating a longer text, and I was considering just going out and finding something and working on it and submitting it to my mother to have her grade it, or throwing it on the tender mercies of the Internet, but if there’s a thing within Duolingo I’d love to do that. I just can’t find it.
I wind up just Googling for other Spanish-language learning things so I can look up my own verb conjugation charts and such, and supplement Duolingo that way, since it’s not something I can find within their curriculum. At this point I’m using it for the habit-forming aspect, and for no other real reason/to no other particular effect, so we’ll see how long I make it.
I didn’t get a different ask from you, I don’t think, apart from that first one about the desktop site? so probably :(
I have used desktop duolingo a bit! At this point about half of what I’ve done has been on the desktop site. It’s… not really that much more comprehensive than the mobile site, there’s just more typing, that I could find. Am I doing it wrong?
Anyway anyone doing duolingo add me! I don’t know what that accomplishes but I love collecting people for some reason. I am apparently called bridget942 over there, for whatever that means!
Oh also I discovered the hard way though that some things don’t count toward your daily totals, so i broke my streak even though i worked on the damn site for like 45 minutes on the day that didn’t count? grr. Apparently Skills just don’t count for anything, and it’s only working on the main tree area that actually counts toward a streak? The day is colored green like the rest of my days, but the streak ends at it and begins again the day after, so that’s a pile of horse shit, why gameify it and then have it so easy to lose at?
I don’t understand the chain or tree thing at all really, but it does help to know that it put me where it did just because nobody gets placed farther along than that. Because most of the lessons are insanely boring so I just fly through them to get to the next thing, and I was wondering what I’d done to get myself placed there. I have the issue, I think, of reasonable underlying fundamentals, but I do sincerely need review, and so being halfway through the chain, most of it’s not advanced enough but then there’s a lot of stuff I’m expected to know that I don’t have any access to review of. It can be really frustrating when they introduce a word I’m expected to know in a way that means I can’t actually learn it. (Like, dictating it and expecting me to transcribe it when I’ve never seen it before. “Ya veras,” the guy said a bunch of times as the very first question of the lesson, and I thought, “isn’t keychain masculine? llaveros? Welp, llaveras, I guess?” WRONG okay but I need more context to randomly guess that you’re conjugating a verb. A longer text, maybe half a sentence at least, would have given me some clue. That was not useful.) But then, most of it is mind-numbing repetition, which is great if you’re learning but less useful if you’re only reviewing.
I’m also getting a little frustrated by how often they’ll mark my answers incorrect when they’re not. But I mean. It doesn’t matter, they’ll just ask again later. But it gets to me, especially when it means it won’t let me test out of a skill I know already. I get it, it’s a game, but I don’t play games so it doesn’t bind to my receptors like it does for a lot of people, LOL.
But I have looked for, and not been able to find, any kind of explanations, verb tables, etcetera– it’s been sort of astonishingly free of context of any kind so far, and I’ve poked around and gotten lost and had to just close out of the site. Is all that stuff under Discussion, and I just have to subscribe to the right ones? I don’t see anything like that. I would love to try my hand at translating a longer text, and I was considering just going out and finding something and working on it and submitting it to my mother to have her grade it, or throwing it on the tender mercies of the Internet, but if there’s a thing within Duolingo I’d love to do that. I just can’t find it.
I wind up just Googling for other Spanish-language learning things so I can look up my own verb conjugation charts and such, and supplement Duolingo that way, since it’s not something I can find within their curriculum. At this point I’m using it for the habit-forming aspect, and for no other real reason/to no other particular effect, so we’ll see how long I make it.
