#korean duolingo

[quiveringdeer]

okay I got frisky and started the Korean tract on duolingo for funsies and am I trippin or what?

with the bottom left the voice is sayin "geoma" but it's written "geomeo" right?

cause the next one on the right is being pronounced "gama"

I wish I could've recorded the voice but I wasn't sure how I probs shoulda done a screen recording but it's late and I forgot it was easier than my brain was making me believe

[oediex]

(Languages taken from the top 10 foreign languages learned on Duolingo in 2024.)

I would like to bring your attention to two fundraisers that are near and dear to my heart.

@elhamhamdan-gaza is a young woman trying to survive in Gaza with her family. She was a top student at university until October 2023, when she and her family were displaced from their home in Khan Younis and forced to flee to Rafah. After the invasion in Rafah, they returned to their home in Khan Younis only to find it burned. They had no choice but to live in it. Elham and her family desperately need funds for blankets and clothes, because winter is here and nights in Gaza are very cold right now.

Elham's campaign is very low on funds! So far they have only been able to raise £594 and they desperately need more support. Please donate to them if you are able, and share this post and campaign with as many people as you can.

This campaign was verified by the Butterfly Effect Project (instagram) and is number 1180 on their spreadsheet, which you can access through the link on their instagram profile.

You can contribute to Elham's campaign by clicking on the link below:

Secondly, @drdarine is a young woman who is a medical student in Gaza. Despite being displaced and suffering hardships we can only imagine, Darine is continuing her studies and helping out others in the refugee camps and shelters in southern Gaza. Her family consists of seven people, one of them being my friend @dawoudi who is selflessly and unfailingly helping many other families in Gaza by verifying their fundraisers and promoting them on Tumblr. Everyday I see more campaigns added that he has verified, providing an important service to the many families in Gaza that need our help.

Darine's family has been fundraising since February, which is almost ten months! Despite that, they have only been able to raise $5,765, 19% of their goal. Progress on their campaign is extremely slow, often needing to wait multiple days for another donation to come in. We can do better than that.

This campaign was vetted by @gazavetters, and is number 15 on their spreadsheet, which you can find in the pinned post on their profile.

You can contribute to Darine's campaign by clicking on the link below:

Please support these fundraisers! Thank you!

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@northgazaupdates2 @bilal-salah0 @imjustheretotrytohelp @devilofthepit @ankle-beez

@lukewarm-lesbian @wellwaterhysteria @appsa @qattdraws @laughteronsilverwings

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@comrademango @sunflowersmoths @mindchalice @battleteacake @girlinafairytale

[ckducky]

Learning to say "I love you" in each others language 

[linguajunkie]

Duolingo alternatives

Duolingo’s been in the news for going all AI. Of course, if AI is your bag, that’s cool. But if you’re interested in learning language from resources made by real native speakers and humans…

Here are some suggestions…

Speaking/Listening

-Innovative Language (known for JapanesePod101, koreanclass101, spanishpod101 and their collection of 30+ language programs - teaches languages through conversations (you listen to a convo between two native speakers and then get it explained). Lessons are about 5–10 min on average in audio/video format https://www.innovativelanguage.com/online-language-courses

Pimsleur - similar approach as above but lessons are longer - 30 min and audio only - https://www.pimsleur.com

Reading

LingQ - learn by reading native content and breaking down the words inside. https://www.lingq.com/en/

ReadLang - a browser based tool that translates articles and books you read. https://readlang.com

Satori Reader - (for Japanese) - read level appropriate stories (my fav for reading)

Vocabulary

Anki - not sure if this needs extra explanation - most language learners love Anki’s flash card approach https://apps.ankiweb.net

Clozemaster - learn words in sentence context (instead of just words alone) https://www.clozemaster.com

[alicia-hizumi]

Choi Seung Ho as Jun Ho appreciation post: That is one 🔥HOTTT🔥 man

(P.S. I don't want to put any watermarks on my gifs, I feel like it ruins them a bit, and I will be making a lot of gifs here, so be kind and credit when you can) <3

[wtfduolingo]

Yo (hi :3)

Look at this

(ID: Korean Duolingo phrase that translates to "I like bad boys".)

[chanrizard]

the "speak english" requests are annoying enough but speak french???? to a member who notoriously does Not in fact speak french??? okay 💀

[dkettchen]

Dankjewel voor de trans sanji AU, i owe you my life 😔❤️

I'm luxemburgish (🇱🇺) not dutch (🇳🇱), dear, so I don't speak that one, but thank you lmao

[idia-shrouds-fursona]

[sinner-shark]

having dust/murder sans as my favorite little guy is making me want to actually learn Korean. Guys I barely understand English I am so bad at my native language already ughhhh but dusttttttttttalllllleeeee ahhhh

[prreverse]

learning a new language ft. duo sending threatening notifications (they did help tho)

[saranghandagom]

Korean vocabulary

나누다 - divide; split

"원래 하나였던 것을 둘 이상의 부분이나 조각이 되게 하다."

To divide something that was one into two or more parts or pieces.

나는 케이크를 열 조각으로 나누어 사람들에게 한 조각씩 주었다.

문명 (文明) - civilization

"사람의 물질적, 기술적, 사회적 생활이 발전한 상태."

An advanced state of material, technological and social life for humans.

대기 오염과 수질 오염 등의 환경 문제가 현대 문명을 위협하고 있다.

세계화 (世界化) - globalization

"세계 여러 나라를 이해하고 세계적으로 나아감. 또는 그렇게 되게 함."

The act of understanding many countries and advancing globally, or making something that way.

인터넷 등 정보 통신 기술의 발달로 인해 국가들 간의 거리가 좁혀져 세계화가 빠른 속도로 이루어지고 있다.

풍족하다 (豐足-) - abundant; plentiful; rich (also: well off)

"매우 넉넉해서 부족함이 없다."

Being enough and ample, without a shortage.

복권에 당첨된 뒤 그들은 당첨금으로 풍족한 삶을 누렸다.

짐승 - animal, creature, beast; brute

1 "몸에 털이 나고 네 발을 가진, 사람이 아닌 동물."

An animal other than a human, with four feet and body hair.

숲 속에서 짐승 두 마리가 어슬렁어슬렁 마을로 내려왔다.

2 "(비유적으로) 매우 잔인하거나 야만적인 사람."

(figurative) A person who is very violent or barbarous.

게걸스럽게 먹어 대는 사내의 모습은 마치 짐승 같았다.

속삭이다 - whisper

"남이 알아듣지 못하게 작은 목소리로 가만가만 이야기하다."

To talk in a small voice repeatedly, so that others cannot hear.

승규는 친구에게 슬쩍 집에 가자고 속삭였다.

비키다 - step aside; step back

"마주치거나 부딪치지 않으려고 있던 곳에서 자리를 조금 옮기다."

To move slightly in order not to bump against or run against someone or something.

여기에 서 있으면 불꽃이 튈 수도 있으니 멀리 비켜 있어라.

맴돌다 - remain; linger, keep coming back

1 "어떤 상태 등이 일정한 범위 안에서 계속되거나 머물러 있다."

For a certain state to continue or linger within a certain range.

뚜렷한 단서를 찾지 못해 수사가 원점을 맴돌고 있다.

2 "같은 생각이나 느낌 등이 반복되다."

For a thought or feeling to be repeated.

그는 지수가 화가 나서 뱉은 말이 계속 맴돌아 마음이 좋지 않았다.

(definitions and examples taken from naver dictionary)

[svtskneecaps]

you know what i'll say it MIKE AND ROIER ARE THE ONLY ONES I RESPECT these fuckers will rock up and say FUCK english all my homies HATE english they are the only ones i trust and respect these fuckers are like you will hear me speak my language and you will LEARN IT OR DIE and i respect the HELL OUT OF IT dude THANK YOU FOR BEING ENGLISH HATERS brothers THANK YOU FOR NOT SPEAKING ONLY ENGLISH WHEN AMONG ANYONE NOT OF YOUR LANGUAGE GROUP!!!!!!!!

[its-elvie-innit]

realizing duolingo is NOT HELPFUL if you don't have a background in languages is so annoying because it was helpful Years Ago they just changed it so it's bad now. I took french for four years, and it's a romantic language so learning Portuguese which is in the same branch makes duo a pretty useful tool because I can point to "um" and "uma" and go ah yeah that's like le and la, and they're letting me know the genders by teaching me man and woman as the first words. But I WOULDNT HAVE KNOWN THAT if I didn't ALREADY HAVE BACKGROUND in a SEPARATE SIMILAR LANGUAGE and also duolingo is SHIT AT TEACHING ME FRENCH because I don't have ADVANCED BACKGROUND IN FRENCH THAT IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO USE DUO FOR, ACTUALLY.

Honestly I'm not even fully using duolingo for my Portuguese information it's literally just a memorization tool to get you introduced to certain verbs. You literally CANNOT understand anything without prior knowledge, so I am half note-taking, half verb tabling, and 0.1% cramming duo lessons for that memorization boost. Duolingo used to have a well of information not even hosted by the application, but instead was manually written by its millions of users to help others understand word contexts, and it was free!!!! Duo didn't have to pay shit for it!!!!! But instead they chose to throw away MILLIONS of comments and discussion links to reduce their shit server costs because bill whatever-the-fuck his name was decided he hates learning actually and fuck all your good information I need two extra dollars to afford a snickers bar in the downstairs vending machine. Look at my terrible owl tiktoks.

And I DOUBLE know this because I was learning hiragana in 2019 and I still remember how to sound out at least a few letters because I only got a couple months in, and they had at least a few good tools to help you understand process and learn the content, but then this week I decided I'd like to learn Korean so I started with the basic course and I can tell you right now it might possibly be one of the WORST english phonetic representations of the language sounds I've ever read. Just a little under half, maybe, of duos spelling work for the Hangul letters are completely incomprehensible because of the completely avoidable letter duplication for different sounds. I'll give you an example:

Do you want to know how these letters are pronounced? Here's your hint; both sound suspiciously like tah.

For an app that's supposed to be pretty accessible, I would think that spelling the phonetics right would be pretty high up on your list!!!! And yes, I'm very familiar with the very hard t-sounding "d" sound of some eastern European languages, but I am being so serious when I say whoever pronounced these recordings just said "tah" and "ta"!!! It is EXTREMELY hard to differentiate certain sounds, but the thing is these are not the worst offenders. Actually, the Hangul lessons? Yeah, not the letter system on the side? Those are worse.

These two characters are done in such a robotic sounding way that the only way you can differentiate the sounds is by carefully, CAREFULLY listening to whether the robot (?) does the tongue flick that causes the rolling r at the very beginning of the recording. Otherwise, it's SUPER hard. I would expect you don't mischaracterize the sounds but hey apparently getting a voice actor for character sounds is really hard. I guess. Hey, let me try look this up on YouTube actually. Oh, but for that I would have to download a whole other app to properly write out the words because none of my other apps have a manual writing system and I AM USING DUO TO LEARN THE WORDS. this should be ON THERE.

Not to mention this character, where the robot JUST says T. It says "tuo". The one that it represents? Deo. I would even call it an Italian passing accent. It's stupid.

This problem is occurring in multiple languages, I'm just pointing it out in Korean because it's so all over the place. There's a character representing "kye" that is just. Straight up a ch sound. That's all fine and dandy but there's another character, spelled with a different letter that represents a CH sound too and it's NOT k. It's all over the place!!!!

In my Portuguese lessons, I can say "homem" all I want and it's still not going to give it to me ever because the robot pronounces it wrong. It's the FIRST word you learn in pr lessons, and you have to pronounce it with an H sound HEAVILY. The robot doesn't do that, but it's the only way duo accepts it during speaking lessons when it picks up other soft sounds just fine. I only know this through trial and error. It does NOT tell you.

The only way I learn anything is through my note taking and it's so so sad because duo really used to be good. But taking french, a language I really love, is a pain because at least once a lesson segment, if not twice I will get a word that I don't know and have never been taught, that has never popped up before, in, like, a picture activity where it shows you an image and you have to interpret the right words, so you can't click and check what it means. And every time I'll report that I've never learned the word, but its not like it teaches me or anything after I've reported it, and you don't get to know what the word means until you get the question right so you might lose all your hearts in a lesson just for nothing, if you end up choosing the wrong option too many times. It's so unenjoyable.

It's not like duo can't be good, it can. It's a fun app! But you don't learn any languages past the first couple of words, without any grammar or base knowledge to start you off. It makes me frustrated knowing that the options available to me are limited bases on the sentence structure I'm already familiar with.

[alicia-hizumi]

This guy weaseling around is worse than Jin Guangyao, I just don't have any proof yet

The evil Korean guy is the mastermind, I just know it. I will prove it. Standing, watching you get stabbed both in the front and in the back.

Practically evil twins 😭

(Someone PLEASE tell me his name, the cast of The Bangkok Boy on MDL is so messed up and has bad photos, I cannot catch who is who yet!)

[wtfduolingo]

🤔

(ID: Duolingo phrase in Korean which translates to "Do you want to die?")