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on the one hand using duolingo’s desktop site made me install a russian font on my keyboard so now i can hilariously forget to switch back and type total gibberish sometimes.
on the other hand, when you use the app to do stuff, it awards you points and things in the online store. and when you use the desktop site it does not award you any points.
so they’ve literally incentivized using the app, which has no access to any explanatory grammatical notes. if i want to win the “game” parts of the whole thing, I have to use the app on my phone. but i can’t actually study at all.
I don’t understand DuoLingo at all.
Also, a cellphone keyboard has software keys, so they display what they are. My physical keyboard has Latin letters physically stamped on it, so when I switch to a Russian setting, I’m just randomly typing and hoping I find the letters. I have a little diagram I drew by hand of where the keys are, but it’s really hard to match up. No, I’m not going to hand-paint Cyrillic characters onto the keys of my thousand-dollar laptop.
But in short: if you actually want to learn anything, you have to use the desktop site (not that the grammar notes are actually very… useful? They seem to be sort of peripheral to the goings-on, at best, and include a lot of examples that… aren’t the weirdly repetitive examples that make up the entirety of the lessons. As if they were written by a totally different person at a different time.
I don’t know! But it seems a shame, and also a very strange decision all around.
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on the one hand using duolingo’s desktop site made me install a russian font on my keyboard so now i can hilariously forget to switch back and type total gibberish sometimes.
on the other hand, when you use the app to do stuff, it awards you points and things in the online store. and when you use the desktop site it does not award you any points.
so they’ve literally incentivized using the app, which has no access to any explanatory grammatical notes. if i want to win the “game” parts of the whole thing, I have to use the app on my phone. but i can’t actually study at all.
I don’t understand DuoLingo at all.
Also, a cellphone keyboard has software keys, so they display what they are. My physical keyboard has Latin letters physically stamped on it, so when I switch to a Russian setting, I’m just randomly typing and hoping I find the letters. I have a little diagram I drew by hand of where the keys are, but it’s really hard to match up. No, I’m not going to hand-paint Cyrillic characters onto the keys of my thousand-dollar laptop.
But in short: if you actually want to learn anything, you have to use the desktop site (not that the grammar notes are actually very… useful? They seem to be sort of peripheral to the goings-on, at best, and include a lot of examples that… aren’t the weirdly repetitive examples that make up the entirety of the lessons. As if they were written by a totally different person at a different time.
I don’t know! But it seems a shame, and also a very strange decision all around.
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