I’ve been learning Finnish for nearly a year. The first phrase it taught me was “Sinä olet velho”. I thought it was madness to teach me “You are a wizard”. Like, when am I ever going to use that?!
Later that year, I was performing at a forest festival in Finland, and a guy staggered past wearing a wizard hat. The way his face lit up when I yelled “Sinä olet velho!” was priceless!
GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 1 year ago
Duolingo will teach the 50 most common words first, and then the precise names of all items of clothing you could think of.
Nepenthe@kbin.social 1 year ago
And then never discuss the weather or any emotion other than happy.
But then, I don't suppose the other feelings are even a necessity when you're drinking as much and as many types of alcohol as Duolingo seems to think Turkey, a highly regulated 98% muslim country, goes through on the daily.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It took them forever to teach me the word for “then”. But hey, at least I learned all about how to speak about cows.