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Naava wrote:Irusia wrote:Which Duolingo course is better: Irish or Welsh? I want to dabble in one Celtic language on Duolingo and don't know which one to choose.
Choose Welsh and then we'll both be learning it.
I tried Irish but imo it was a bit confusing because they didn't explain the orthography or pronunciation (or if they did, I missed it). They'd also chosen to use real speakers for audio files, and even though that was cool, it meant that you couldn't hear how most of the words and sentences were supposed to be pronounced.
linguoboy wrote:I don't understand what this means. Native speakers? I thought one of the selling points of Duolingo was that all of the speakers were native.
idshanks from Duolingo wrote:It's on every sentence for languages which have a text-to-speech engine implemented. There is no compatible engine for Irish (and a few other languages), necessitating the hiring of a voice artist.
The benefit of this is that (at least now that the new voice is implemented) the pronunciation is more true to life than in the other courses using the TTS engine - however, the downside is that as the voice artist has to be paid per sentence, the cost of this simply eliminates the possibility of having every sentence voiced.
From what I've read, however, every word is pronounced in at least one sentence in the course. It's unfortunate, but it's just one of the necessary adaptations that must be made in catering to certain languages.
linguoboy wrote:I had enough of this with the Welsh course, and they actually chose to go with Hwntw (South Welsh), just not the particular mix of forms I learned. Since I've studied the language before, I can't really say how frustrating it is for a newbie. Irusia, maybe you've got some thoughts on that now?
Irusia wrote:I have only finishe the first skills about greetings, so I cannot say anything about how good the whole course is, but the Welsh course seems to be better than the other ones I tried. I will be able to tell you more about it when I finish at least half of it.
Irusia wrote:vijayjohn wrote:I have no idea yet why Arabic is still at 0%, but Hindi is at 90% and Indonesian at 71%! Yay!
All three of those are languages I want to add.
Indonesian is at 79% already.
Irusia wrote:Irusia wrote:vijayjohn wrote:I have no idea yet why Arabic is still at 0%, but Hindi is at 90% and Indonesian at 71%! Yay!
All three of those are languages I want to add.
Indonesian is at 79% already.
87%
Ciarán12 wrote:I don’t know if this is really the right thread, but it’s close enough.
I’d like to hear from anyone who’s actually completed one of the Duolingo courses - how good does it actually make you at the language (supposing Duolingo was your only (or at least primary) method of learning the language)? Are there differences between the courses? (like some take you to B1 level, others as far as B2 etc…)
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