Langages on dual lingo9/26/2023 ![]() I can't really compare as I have no experience of Chinese, or Arabic or many other groups of languages. JackyB if I were to learn a language it would probably be Polish.Ī gentleman that I randomly met in Waterstones told me that for English speakers, Polish was one of the hardest languages to learn. Portuguese: Ensinar o Pai-Nosso ao vigário (“Teach the Lord’s Prayer to the vicar”). Spanish: Aún no ha salido del cascarón y ya tiene presunción (“He hasn’t left the shell, but he’s already being presumptuous”). German: Er will seinen Vater lernen Kinder erziehen (“He would teach his father to raise children”) Das Ei will klüger sein als die Henne (“The egg wants to be wiser than the hen”). Italian: Insegnar nuotare ai pesci (“To teach fish to swim”) L’uovo ne vuol saper più della gallina (“The egg should not know more than the hen”). ![]() Latin: Ne sus Minervam doceat (“A sow does not teach Minerva ”) Delphinum natare doces (“You’re teaching a dolphin to swim”) Aquilam volare doces (“You’re teaching an eagle to fly”) À bove majori discit arare minor (“The young ox learns to plow from the elder”).įrench: Les oisons veulent mener les ois paître (“The goslings want to drive the geese to pasture”) Il ne faux pas apprendre aux poissons à nager (“One does not teach fish to swim”). Here are some of these proverbs, and their literal translations: These are often translated into English as “Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs,” even though that’s not the actual wording. If you are interested SD, many other languages have expressions about trying to teach one’s betters what they already know. When writing I try to explain, in the hope of conveying meaning and enabling understanding by the reader, not simply produce a quantity of words as if answering an examination question for what I write to become read by an examiner with existing knowledge of the topic.īy the way, do you know of the Spanish poet who is thought to have first used the phrase about sucking eggs and of the city where a poem by him is displayed on an outside wall, a city where many poems by many poets and in various languages are displayed on outside walls and that many of the poems are displayed in images within Google street view? I could then write about various aspects of producing a PDF document, such as the embedding of a subset of a font in a PDF document and the reasons for doing that, using the abbreviation as needed. ![]() So, if, say, I were writing about producing a PDF (Portable Document Format) document, I would, as here, include the meaning of the abbreviation the first time I used it. I was taught, and try to follow, a practice of always writing out the meaning of an abbreviation when first using it. Sometimes fairly easy to find out on the web, sometimes not. I know that sometimes I have read items - I don't mean on Gransnet - where an author has used an abbreviation and I have not known what it means. Even if there were one person who did not know that, then my including it would perhaps help that person and cause them not to feel excluded. No, not patronising, a statement of fact so as to be inclusive of anybody who did not know that. ^Many readers will know that in English that the word 'a' before a consonant and 'an' before a vowel, is the indefinite article^Īnd many grannies also know how to suck eggs!. I ignore them, as I am more bothered about actually learning what's in a lesson than rushing through a huge number just to get more points. Basically, they are just a measure of how many lessons you have completed. I've just had to look up myself what the XP (experience points) are. I'm not sure what else you can use them for now, if anything, though at one time you could use some lingots to 'buy' a different costume for the owl that keeps appearing on your screen! ![]() The most useful of the things you can buy is a 'streak freeze', which allows you to miss a day of practice on DuoLingo without losing your tally of consecutive days practice.įor a lot of people (me included), that tally is a good motivation for doing a little bit of practice every day, which is very important if you are serious about learning a language. What can one get with lingots if one gets lots of them please?Īlso I get XP scores. I have been using duolingo for six days, some each day.
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