It's not too high on my priority list either, like I said.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 20/09/2013 06:17:24 PM
But I read about Duolingo in the Economist, it sounded interesting and since I already know enough French, German and Spanish that I need more advanced methods to improve those than that, that left only Italian or Portuguese as possible testing options.
Like you, I'm really hoping for them to implement less obvious languages, Turkish in particular would be good.
View original postMostly because my desire to learn a language is directly correlated to a country's history and literature. And post-Renaissance Italian history is not one I am fascinated with enough to care too much about.
Those are factors for me as well, but so is traveling, and there's definitely a ton of places in Italy that I still need to see... with English and my improvised Italian words I get far enough in touristic areas, but not perhaps outside them. So as I said, I can't be bothered to take classes or put real effort into it that I could be spending on higher priority languages, but fifteen minutes every now and then on Duolingo, if it improves my fluency to a basic speaking level... why not.
View original postI do wish there were an app out there to help me learn a non-European language such as Japanese. But I haven't seen anything good.
Those would have to be language-specific... there should be some? Especially for Japanese, considering how popular that seems to be in the US as a foreign language, particularly among the geeky crowd that is likely to design apps.
NSSP: I'm learning Spanish!
- 18/09/2013 03:41:12 PM
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Good for you!
- 18/09/2013 05:15:23 PM
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You'll probably be fluent in about 6 months at most. It's easy.
- 18/09/2013 06:58:49 PM
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Re: You'll probably be fluent in about 6 months at most. It's easy.
- 20/09/2013 03:05:35 PM
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You will need to learn the subjunctive. Very much so.
- 20/09/2013 03:43:53 PM
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Re: You will need to learn the subjunctive. Very much so.
- 23/09/2013 03:21:07 PM
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Ah, but a question isn't a statement of uncertainty. It's a request for information.
- 23/09/2013 03:59:00 PM
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Is Duolingo one of the apps you have downloaded?
- 19/09/2013 05:23:35 PM
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It is quite good in some ways.
- 19/09/2013 06:54:44 PM
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Italian is one of those languages I've never wanted to learn.
- 20/09/2013 12:33:49 PM
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There isn't enough Renaissance-era literature that you want to read?
- 20/09/2013 03:53:17 PM
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Nope. Not too interested in the literature of the area. Not enough to learn the language
- 20/09/2013 04:17:46 PM
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A quick question.
- 20/09/2013 05:48:18 PM
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I think that is a very subjective question.
- 20/09/2013 06:36:50 PM
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You would like Leopardi's thoughts on the two languages found within his Zibaldone
- 21/09/2013 09:11:15 AM
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I will have to look in my copy of the Zibaldone on that one.
- 22/09/2013 04:26:11 AM
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I want to say it's in the late 3000s, early 4000s, but I'm uncertain
- 22/09/2013 07:53:07 AM
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It's not too high on my priority list either, like I said.
- 20/09/2013 06:17:24 PM
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Bolivia is pretty amazing and has a good exchange rate, though you'll need a visa. *NM*
- 25/09/2013 04:37:18 PM
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