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It’s such a drag getting into arguments about a friend’s ugly bicycle and I’m sad to discover it happens all over the world
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Also duolingo please stop making me type “bicicletta” over and over
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implausible that the italians dont have a word like “bike.” if they don’t may i suggested “bice”
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La bice di Luca è molto brutta!
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got it in one, bravissimo 👏🏻
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Scua ma credo che "bici" sarebbe probabilmente più usato
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That got real intense real quick
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Also, if you turn on the Italian keyboard on your phone, it will suggest autofills in Italian. 🙂 Which is only sorta cheating. 😏
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The sellers of stolen bikes in Piazza Verdi, Bologna used to stage-whisper “bici bici”
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Yeah you can use la bici every time in duo
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with a word as beautiful as bicicleta I can hardly blame them
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Duolingo keeps making me type mikrobølgeovn
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French is always asking me about croissants which feels like a real cop-out.
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Salt, pepper, and pizza are exactly the same in Norwegian as in English too. It makes up all the super long combo words they smush together like they do in German.
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I'm doing Latin (so useful, I know) and I'm not very far in (time to form some direct objects!) and they have taught us four foods, three of which make a lot of sense for Latin: red wine, bread, olives and... cookies??
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(no idea if this works in duolingo but if you enable a language keyboard in setting->general->keyboard and then switch to that keyboard (a globe will replace the emoji icon in the lower left of the keyboard, tap it and pick) it’ll spell check in that language. And autocomplete.)
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You couldn’t even make it through “it’s” without a lost time accident
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I use voice to text when I get tired of typing the same words in Duolingo. I just consider it pronunciation practice. 😉
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Android frequently gives me autocomplete options for words in Duo lingo Gaelic, but it's inconsistent. Sometimes I have to keep typing "leabharlann" over and over, which I'll never remember how to spell, but then it auto-suggests "bhfuil" after I type "Cá" and all is forgiven.
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One of my favorite things about Duolingo is that so many of the practice conversations are deeply awkward.
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I want to see a map of bicycle vs velocipede etymologies
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To be fair, they could be arguing about how nice looking it is, and one person likes it A LOT more than the other.
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I too loved the movie Luca, Duolingo. His bike was okay. A loaner.
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nobody in the world has ever said any of the Duolingo sentences...they switched to AI generating lessons which are "edited" by real ppl so that's probably why
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To be honest, I've given up on Duolingo. With the languages that are less popular, the phrases start repeating themselves very quickly.
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As an italian, I love that not many english speakers would care about a typo that small but italians would make fun of you for the rest of the week for it if you said it irl
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Ugly bike can have many different meanings though. Only I can only think of ons more but it's very rude, in both senses of the word
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I've never seen someone that happy to disagree about how ugly a bike was before.