Duolingo did a slight amount of tomfoolery... source: r/shitduolingosays & r/strangeduolingo Discord: / discord Thoughts & Opinions/Where I post my art: / jaredtsvetkov Help me buy new hardware: www.paypal.com/Tsvetkov/summary
I genuinely had fun making this, but things got worse since I made part 2. I addressed the situation here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cB4A2Sf1YA8.html I'm sorry, I will *NOT* make anymore of this
Tip: letters like "я" are "softening" consonants before them, they don't have any "y" (й) sound unless there's a vowel. "Softening" example: "s" sound at "seek" (i think)
"I don't need to read your terms of service to accept you" That is oddly profound. In the midst of all this bizarre hilarity, there are these few kind words. We should all accept people without needing to read their terms first.
The Japanese ones are even funnier/more concerning knowing that one of the people they got to speak out the sentences for the course sounds depressed AF. If you know, you know. I imagine she must be the one with the demons living in her walls.
This would make a cool analogue horror game concept. Imagine, a cute looking language learning app. Your first lessons start off great. You learn basic sentences and words. Everything seems normal until the characters start teaching you weird sentences. Small bits of stories, calls of help, warnings. You're a bit confused but you brush it off and continue your lessons. As you play more and more, the warnings get more serious, the calls for help more desperate and with each lesson you get a bit more of the stories. Each character seems to tell a different story but they all seem like they're going to have the same ending. Finally, the final lesson, you are now fluent in the language you wanted to learn when this all started but you keep playing because you want to know how the stories ends. So you play the final lesson. And suddenly everything is clear. You realize that those characters that have been teaching you, they're not characters, they're people. People who were previous victims of the app's mascot, they've been trying to warn you all this time. Their souls have been trapped inside the app and they've been trying to warn you that you're next. Now, with the final lesson done, you understand everything, the language, the stories, the warnings and the danger you're in. But it's too late. By completing the lesson, you've released the mascot demon from the virtual world and now the story's ending is happening to you. The app gets an update the next day, a new character has been added to the app. You are that character, and you've learned your lesson.
AHAH seeing the norwegian "blant oss" one got me rolling on the floor 😂 also, the "i think i am dying" is a common phrase used in norwegian for an example when its really hot outside and you say "jeg tror jeg dør/i think im dying" as opposed to the heat.
I keep getting "good morning, my city!" in Ukrainian. Which I thought was totally demented until I saw videos like this- clearly it's going to get waaaaaay more bizarre.
and also the fact that it was a greek lesson so I could only imagine an old man with white beard holding a book asking that question like it's a philosophical thing lol
I remember once learning Romanian with Duolingo. Was given an english sentence and had 3 possible translations. I don't remember what I was supposed to translate, but among the options was "Eu mănânc copii"...which means "I eat children". I have a feeling Duolingo is doing this shit on purpose
in my country it's common to keep a kid's baby teeth in a jar inside the fridge actually, if you were learning some sort of slavic language maybe that's why it said such a weird thing?
With the first Indonesian question at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="143">2:23</a> it gets weirder. (1) The same exercise had other variations of that existential question, such as "Mengapa saya ada di sini"(Why am I here). (2) It gave me these phrases repeatedly, in the same exercise. (3) "Exist" is not the translation of "Ada" used in early exercises. All of this would suggest that Duolingo specifically wants you to know how to ask existential questions in Indonesian.
Here are some bizarre sentences that I had gotten assigned to me throughout the Korean Duolingo course: • "The man is a child" • "The meat eats me" • "A bed is food" • "We deceive the boy" • "A bear eats a child" • "Germans and Russians are learning the Korean alphabet together"
Ya kinda just proved that the sentences are entertaining and memorable. That's the point. Entertaining sentances are easier to remember than boring ones, and vocab is easier to remember in context (a sentence or situation) than by themselves. It's an effective learning tool.
Tbh duolingo said the weirdest and creepiest thing sometimes. I got creeped out when im practicing in duolingo. I once got a sentence like "i don't open that door" or "the tall man behind me is not my brother" which is kinda eerie when you are by yourself in your house
Some courses definitely want to make you laugh sometimes. I once had "En elefant snakker ikke dansk" in the Danish course. This means: "An elephant does not speak Danish"
I finished the entire Korean course so I can confirm that all the Korean ones are real. Now I'm going through the mandarin course and I've also gathered a few weird ones in my screenshots: - Her father drinks tea from <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="390">6:30</a> to <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="540">9:00</a> - His cat ate your banana - he doesn't play sports, he only likes to sleep - he changes girlfriends every year - my dog ate my homework - the sun is gone! - my cat died yesterday - she likes to smoke after drinking alcohol
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="83">1:23</a> “I like your knives” <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="286">4:46</a> “the devils are inside the wall” <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="32">0:32</a> “where can we hide the bodies? He sold his soul to the devil he shouted so loudly when the birds were eating his eyes by the time you get this message I will have died M Y D U C K I S T A S T Y” <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="86">1:26</a> “I hear voices” <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="221">3:41</a> “the dog ate the table”
“I don’t need to read your terms and conditions to accept you” is an oddly positive/happy message to a struggling friend and/or a kinda solid pickup line
I love how the facial expressions and body language of these characters go with all these sentences. And the funniest thing is that only Lily, because of being a sarcastic goth gf and not a happy go lucky person, like all the others, looks like she is actually saying these sentences.
It's quite funny. I just wanted to say that all "hard exercise" means on Duolingo is that you have to type in the answer by yourself, instead of using tiles. Just in case someone was wondering.
Some of the weirder ones I’ve gotten are “I/You/We do not eat turtles.”, “I am a fish!”, “Mice do not exist.” (I think they may be trying to convince me of that one as I have encountered it at least 6 times in the past week), and “It is raining men.”
Ukrainian lessons: "What problems do you have?" "Viktor could see everything." "He thinks about the soul." "My business." "I am not a ghost." Edit: I'm a Ukrainian who decided to speedrun the lessons to see the weird things Duolingo teaches.
@@reverie02 окей, бывший мариуполец на связи. На юго-западе страны тихо, тут бомбить особо нечего (разве что один раз недавно). Мы с семьёй непонятно как уехали из города третьего марта, и всё уже было похоже на... Не знаю даже, как сказать, на постапокалипс, пожалуй. Всё пусто, серо, темно(вид ночного города без света чем-то даже завораживал, приходилось постоять на улице, когда единственный доступный подвал заволокло дымом). Я жил в той части города, которая попала на пути чуть ли не первой, с первого дня у некоторых вылетали окна (ещё до двадцать четвертого было слышно за городом выстрелы), потом начали палить в дома. Мы второго, как обычно, вышли в общий коридор из квартиры, т.к. опять слишком свистело, и через минуту в нашу квартиру попало, лол. Ну, вода итак была грязной ужасно, потом и электричество вырубили. Короче, нам повезло, машина чуть ли не единственная осталась целая, мы и уехали на следующий день. От тех кто позже выехал знаю, что ради воды топили снег и ждали дожди, готовка на улице. А ещё люди не имеют права в звонках и сообщениях говорить, что всё плохо, иначе им будет ещё хуже. На выезде сейчас военные проверяют переписки и фото, чтобы не было следов. Как-то так, хз. Новости особо не читаю.
Russian lessons: - You're not my dad - The women are already in the park - Here's our offices - The person is by the door - The child has a mother - Do you have mother at your place ? - A chicken - it's a bird It looks like some kind of a reality show to be honest So i also found these strange sentences, they're also from the Russian language lessons: - This poet doesn't have any mice - My horse isn't an artist but he is an architect
I hope it's from the Russian course because this one is an actual quote! It's Brezhnev's (one of the Soviet leaders), if I'm not mistaken: "Экономика должна быть экономной" ("The economics must be economical")
From yesterday's Duolingo: "Don't kiss the spider" And "The businessman did not understand the sudden demand for wireless bananas" <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="116">1:56</a> This is a Norwegian phrase that did not translate btw, lol. It means "Hurry up!"
I've seen the "my horse is not an artist but an architect" one myself, and I triple checked it just to make sure I was reading it right. Until seeing this video I didn't think Duolingo sentences could get any weirder. Another sentence I saw in the Russian course was "your sweater is covered in blood"
Almost all of Duolingo's phrases are manually composed. Only a few are parametric (changed around for the occasion based on a template), however these are most common/noticeable in the beginning of a course, leading to the misconception of procedural generation.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="210">3:30</a> I have some context for my story: I have way too many elephant themed things in my room At the sight of that I ran out of my room
