• WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I'm still angry at Welsh Duolingo for giving a wrong answer if you translate goodbye as hwyl fawr (the app insists the only translation is hwyl but hwyl fawr, hwyl and da boch chi can all by used for goodbye interchangeably).

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      kugatsu, not kyuugatsu

      On their own you'd read them as kyuu and gatsu, but when put together in the word September they read kugatsu

      (Unless all my Japanese teachers have lied to me all these years :rage-cry: )

      The word was also read out loud as kugatsu in this sentence. The furigana in Duolingo are all over the fucking place in general

      • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I dunno, I've never seen く used as the furigana for 九. Like 九州 is きゅうしゅう

        But all good either way. I've heard kugatsu in everyday conversation too.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It's officially spelled きゅうがつ but read as if it was くがつ. That's because Japanese being phonetic and a-tonal is a dirty lie.

        But hey, English speakers shouldn't be complaining about other languages being inconsistent and non-phonetic. I mean shit, just the word "phonetic" is a great example. Why the fuck isn't it spelled "fonetic" or pronounced "puh-hon-etic"?.

        Fucking languages man.

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          If they choose to have one spelling in their little app they should probably stick to how it's pronounced since there is no space to explain these nuances

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The character on the right seems somewhat of dubious nature.

      :sus-deep:

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Please tell me you were not actually using it to learn, please tell me you just found this meme elsewhere. Please.

  • Dbumba [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Monke: God, can I have pattern recognition abilities

    God: For language learning abilities?

    Monke: .....Yes

    :stop-posting-amogus: