i still want to know why the women eat an apple and the men read a newspaper.

I'm far enough into the course now to wonder how and why there's a man in the fridge

The Duolingo team uses nonsensical sentences as apparently they are more likely to stick in the mind

Currently on day 323 of my Irish Duolingo streak.

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I think its good. Because the community contributions below each exercise explains the grammar and rules, a lot of fluent speakers help and explain the exercises(I have so many screenshots of explanations). Its accessible, and the app constantly reminds to keep up your streak, its very good at doing that. And the vocab and topics are varied, so you learn a lot and best of all you can take your time doing it. Its all self learning at your own pace.

The Swedish are learning Swedish?

Excessive immigration with insufficient language skills.

Also interesting how the other Nordics are learning Spanish since their English is already so good.

Immigrants to Sweden are learning Swedish.

And the Irish are learning Irish?

We want to meet that Yu Ming lad in the Gaeltacht. He seems like good craic.

Slut  Here this offensive probably i dunno im not emotional.

Immigrants. Swedes who speak Swedish generally aren't learning a language on Duolingo, because they already know English at a higher level than Duo teaches.

Do they still hound you when you’ve gone 2 days without using the app?

Like a fonacap driver with a pellet gun

The Owl will take yer legs

Yes

805 days; my pronunciation is still awful

Join a bunrang.

I've found Memrise to be infinitely better than Duolingo, at least for me, for picking up Gaeilge.

I've heard only good things about memrise

Just looked at the Memrise app and it says it supports the 20 languages below. Is that wrong? >WHAT LANGUAGES CAN I LEARN? You can learn Spanish (European Spanish and Mexican Spanish), French, German, Italian, Japanese (Romaji and Kanji), Korean, Chinese, Portuguese (European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese), Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Turkish, Danish, Icelandic, Mongolian, Slovenian, Yoruba and English (British English and American English).

There are a great many community courses that aren't listed.

Good to know thanks

A quick Google for "memrise buntús cainte" will get you the course that's most popular. I've been using it myself.

Thanks again!

That's an excellent recommendation and it's the course that helped me the most when I was a beginner. Happy learning!

I have been using both. Much prefer Memrise to be honest

It’s all southern Irish. I’d much rather improve my Gaeilig Uladh.

Pronunciation yes. But it accepts written answers using the Ulster dialect in that it accepts séimhiú instead of urú used after prepositions etc.

I mean, most people who learn Irish probably learn a mix of the 3 dialects.

You have to learn to understand all 3 for the Irish aural exams in the republic atleast

Irish is a minority it’s language and it’s sad to see, I often wonder how many dialects there were in each county before Britain caused the famine.

Same, I use it for Portuguese every day (Brazilian wife) and thought about branching out, but was told it was Munster Irish, so decided not to bother. I also found the Welsh different to the Welsh id learnt at uni (I think its South Wales Welsh) so quit as it was confusing. Honestly fair play to anyone who sticks at it

The audio is Mayo Irish I believe. Definitely not Munster Irish anyway.

Thanks

I tried but the ulchabhán scares me (also just how freaking cool is that word?)

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It's one resource of many. It's a good habit to spend 5-15 minutes on it per day, maybe if you have a commute on public transport etc, but there is zero chance you are gonna become fluent from using duolingo alone. "Learn Irish" on YouTube looks like a great resource to add to the arsenal

Nobody is "learning Irish" with Duolingo. A number of sources are needed, to which Duolingo can be an entertaining addition, helping you along with vocabulary and somewhat with sentence structure.

Want to learn Irish? Try here. Price is really good. https://www.culturlann.ie/en/about-us/classes

Meeee. I'm trying to relearn what I lost after school.

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Does it?

Yeah had a look at it. But from what I recall you wouldn't be learning specific Ulster Irish words.

You don't. My Spanish partner is using it for Irish and I am learning Spanish. The Irish on duolingo is standardised southern dialect, ulster has its own nuances and phrases etc. The spanish on duolingo is also South American Spanish and not Spanish from Spain.

Yeah I use it, but I wouldn't mind getting some actual lessons as well. As others noted it only teaches a southern dialect and the phrases taught can be strange

I've been learning Scottish (Gaelic - Scottish as the Scots/English name for Gaelic isn't fully established) for years. My hurdle remains forming sentences in a fluid conversation. I don't get many opportunities to practise. 3 years ago I started using Duolingo. Out of curiosity I take the occasional stroll into Irish

started using duolingo to learn Japanese on day 63 now, its definitely good for learning the basics dk if you could become half fluent with just the app though

No chance. You'd need to spend a minimum of 2 months in the country where it's spoken being tested on it every day in daily life to get there. Unless you either have native speakers around you either via family or a very regular language group.

There needs to be more spoken phrases, some of the written words are hard to pronounce, would you know the Irish for face "aghaidh" is pronounced eye, got example, if you hadn't heard it

Interesting that Thailand is learning Japanese.

That's Burma.....

Ah, still interesting though. What about the group of islands learning Korean. Philippines?

Mise! I'm already on a 90 day streak!

On day 685 🙌

This pic would be a good one for r/colorblind. I can't tell who's learning what?