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dasklaus
I got "My parents don't like that you eat ants" in Swedish once.
Mexicali
This sooner Duolingo guy seems kind of fucked up
Shineonyoucrazycompressedcarbon
Why are you learning Norwegian? I'm Norwegian myself and I'll gladly help if you need some assistance
zagibu
To channel their inner viking, probably.
TeppeMannen
Dette dekker 90% av alle setninger jeg sier i løpet av én dag.. Lykke til med å lære norsk ??
Rabidbacon
#12 Hey! Samesies!
devasto
I did the Italian one, and it was "Non preoccuparti, lei ha diciotto anni" "Don't worry, she's 18"
InTheDistanceAPlaintiveEnglishHorn
I remember a travel phrasebook that had oddly specific phrases for each country. In Portugal it had "what time does your husband arrive?"
lostlittletimeonthis
In the old days women didn't have independence from their husbands so that might be why
ctrlshiftkill009
#12 *finger guns* fucking same lmao
tanebot
*finger guns* kool beans kiddo :D
Arcygenical
Lol. I'm not seeing the issue tbh. These are pretty valid given the current... everything.
Khitrii
in the intro Russian course, I had to translate “there is blood on the page”
dasbrick
I remember it being "there is blood on the ticket." This phrase came up a LOT
StoppedLurkingtoDownvote
Now the early location ones are like "This is Ukraine. Russia is there"...
carrio110
The Welsh one centres mainly around Owen and his insatiable lust for parsnips.
xmtrdude
Don't forget that everyone has pet dragons and giraffes, too.
JadeNB1729
Fucking them, or eating them?
carrio110
I don't think it matters to him, so long as he's near them.
guundi
Mae Owen isio pannas pob dydd cont
joeyecho101
lofiloop
Doing the Norwegian tree atm. It's fun. After all, it's the land of the trolls.
zagibu
Nah, that would be Jotunheim.
niuskisnauskis
I'm doing German and it also has some weir stuff. My fav is "when I become conscious again I am in a big room"
freckledkink
I'm doing German as well. It has some pretty weird stuff. In the beginning there was a lot about people eating beetles and the beetles
freckledkink
Eating all kinds of food. Now it's "the bear wants your money" or "the elephant sees your banana".
LittleJellyBeanToes
Duolingo does votes on which sentences should be added to the app. I think a lot of these were voted in during early pandemic times
Wileydj
The amount of absolutely zonky things I've found in my Korean lessons is well corroborated by this post.
Jphinz
Hey its good they are teaching you realistic phrases!
goflyblind
YourPalFriendpatine66
My favorite duolingo polish sentence is 'mala ryba jest zla: the small fish is evil'
leeian44101
Tbf god has a lot to answer for
crushingbore
#6 I don't even know who you are.
xstickman
Duolingo taught me how to say "we are not paying" MANY lessons before it taught me how to say "I'll pay for this"
spypengen
excuse me, I am an apple
WeedandCheese
The greek one gets a little horny after a while. The number it uses by far the most is 69 (εξήντα εννέα)
aeyou
My Dutch duo lessons taught me to ask "Waar kunnen we de lichamen verbergen" (where can we hide the bodies)
Noksus
The Norwegian course was made by volunteers, not Duolingo employees.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
This year they started with paid contributors and offered positions to the former volunteers. They also went public on NASDAQ.
ScorneontheCob
Is it possible these are in reference to some nihilistic popular tv show? When I was using duolingo for Norwegian 4 years ago it was full of
TheDudeOrHisDudeness
Life is a nihilistic show, I wouldn't say it's that popular though. The plot sucks.
confanity
Seems blatantly fake to me. All it means is some memer found the font they use.
lemjau
I haven't seen these particular ones, but I got "where can we hide the bodies" the other day.
confanity
There are definitely some joke / movie quote / deliberately weird questions. But some of these just go over the top and don't match the tone
accidie
I once got, "I never feed the baby."
CubwardOHulihan
I watched a Norwegian show called däg. Most of these lines would fit.
mikeatike
Do you like dägs?
CubwardOHulihan
That joke works better when you realize I'm Irish.
MangoLass
It's just called Dag, and we don't use the ä in Norwegian. We use æ, ø and å.
CubwardOHulihan
Either way, it's a good show.
SwedeOnAnIsland
Inferiör brutes
NordMan
Norwegian here. What the Valhall is "däg"??
Fanzay
Jeg tror han mener Dag. Med Atle Antonsen?
TheRealDeadBird
Nei nei, Däg er den serien med han Anton Atlesen som jobber i Husbanken, helt vanlig misforståelse.
ScorneontheCob
GoT references. “Winter is coming,” “Don’t trust the red woman,” that kind of stuff
GuybrushThreepwoodAMightyPirate
I got "I am a banana" in German a couple years back
6313326
I got "The President has small hands" (Der Präsident hat kleine Hände) in German back in like 2017.
goblinart
My spoon is too big!
DrArsMoriendi
That nihilistic show is waking up every morning / cheers from Sweden
JamesBluntThatSmartassCunt
Lmao “cheers”
ScorneontheCob
Yep. Sunrise was 1/2 an hour after I got to work today, only getting darker.
TerribleDawn
You guys get to see the sun?
Zupermuz
And sundown half an hour before we go home
ScorneontheCob
It will be nicer once the snow comes and everyone puts up their lights
Theory89
We have the same shit in the UK. Gets super depressing.
LeTourdeFrance
Meanwhile learning Dutch in Duolingo. Ik been geen banana.
CptKayleeDisney
I'm doing Japanese and it taught me the phrase "Hello, I am an apple"
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
*“Excuse me"; it's a very polite apple. Later on:
SoraHjort
cainofdreaming
My back door is ready!
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Memes aside, you can disable all popups. I only left the daily practice reminder on and emails for comment replies.
zagibu
That could be from a Stephen King short story.
BamboozleInsurance
I swear the Duolingo owl is a SCP
buttdestroyer
Nah, I live in the Nordics, trust me, Norwegian people are just like that way.
DTCarl05
This was immediately my response! Duolingo did the same when I learned Danish.
Turtlegir
I didn't realize how similar Norwegian and swedish are. Im learning swedish on duolingo.
TheRealDeadBird
This is eerily accurate.
tesseract4d2
I was gonna say, duo teaches commonly used words and phrases. Swedes like coffee, kaffe is one of the first drinks you learn på svenska
pixelsnader
Meanwhile, Indonesian Duolingo talks about three billion bananas and moving cakes.
ScrewySole
As a norwegian, can confirm!
stonks88
Actually, Norwegian's are the happiest people on earth. So it might just be your life that suck.
TheRealDeadBird
/s** There, fixed it for you buddy ?
cyfeiliornydd
Ikke så særlig da. Kanskje bare rundt deg?
buttdestroyer
Sorry I'm from finland, I don't speak surströmming.
cyfeiliornydd
Vell problemet ditt da?
WinchesterTavern
irkaninvaderscooch
My exact reaction
SedatedPossum
Maybe if you stopped destroying their butts their mood would improve?
buttdestroyer
Maybe, but if god didn't want me to destroy their butts, god shouldn't have made their butts so great.
H0rndog
Well, as a Norwegian, if there is a God, that punk ass bitch sure does have a lot to answer for
buttdestroyer
See? They're exactly like that.
IllegalDuckling
Cool, I've got Norwegian blood
irkaninvaderscooch
Nope, you have star-spangled banner blood now eat your gun and don't go to the doctor /s
UpAloft
Can't tell if you're referencing we eat horrible junk food or we that we should take an high velocity lead supplement lol
DatDarthCaedus
GamleErik
Give it back!
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
Why?
maybeamonster
DatDarthCaedus
Like... in a bag? Because you should probably leave that to a hospital.
IllegalDuckling
No, I don't trust their kitchen anymore
swedeonamoose
it's the season, the nordics tend to get a tad more depressed as the darkness returns.
effinamazing
Yeah, mørketidsdeprisjon, or, darktimes-depression, is a thing.
Whatisthisafontsizeforants
Get some Vitamin-D supplements. They don't remove the depression, believe me, but it helps during the dark times.
benephon
I'm going back a lot of years to high school psychology but I think it's called seasonal affect disorder, or SAD.
VladThePoker
Kaamosmasennus in Finnish = Polar night depression.
ContinuallySenseless
Ei ny viel, syysmasennuksessa vasta :)
swedeonamoose
black as night when you go to work, black as night when you get home from work.
RebelSkull
Black as night when you look towards the future.
MangoLass
Mørketidsdepresjon*
effinamazing
Sorry, dialekta kicka inn. Koffør æ sir det me 'i' må gudane vette
Morsalbum
dialekta kicka inn. what a fucking language
StorytellingSalem
Real talk: i love duolingo. Everyone should try it for a month. Its free
Clydefrogger
1252 day streak. Completed Italiano. Probably 1/4 through Español. It really is awesome that such a service is free.
Qualdan
Use the website, not the phone apps as those punish you for mistakes (with "Hearts" that can be bought with "gems" or real money).
StorytellingSalem
You dont make mistakes after a while. Using the phone. Like. Yeah. Mistakes happen but meh. Go back later. Still good either way
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
700something days on Japanese. The worst part and the best part are some users and some other users.
StorytellingSalem
Freaking users. Always ruining shit. But those other users. Woooweee! Make the place great. Users. Cant live with em. Cant live without em.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
And TBF vocal users are a tiny, often non-representative fraction of your user base. Thus “don't listen to them, watch them do and measure”.
StorytellingSalem
Aaaaagreeeed- assholes stink up a room; but the shit they make aint no fertilizer. i gotchyou =D
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Seriously, there's even natives using it to practice their English, and the endless “My creative interpretation was rejected. Reported!”
StorytellingSalem
Right! But hey! Data is data! And in this case, its being theoretically used to refine “teaching language to all for free(sh)” & thats gucci
StorytellingSalem
So fking gucci
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
I really doubt it, judging from how long they take to add alternatives (they have to be swamped with bogus reports). Still it was really ~
AnticlockwiseMetamorphosis
Ditto. Amazing for language exposure, not acquisition. It gets so much flak from so many people saying they never became fluent using it /1
AnticlockwiseMetamorphosis
blah blah blah, but that isn't and has never been its purpose. It's to he used in conjunction with daily convos with native speakers, or /2
AnticlockwiseMetamorphosis
alternatively as just something fun for language nerds like myself. I currently have around 36 of their courses on my account. /3
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
I use it as a skeleton that has to be fleshed out elsewhere, especially with grammar which is anathema to DL's method.
zagibu
What do you mean, I'm not gonna be able to use "Lo squalo non mangia il pane" in everyday conversations?