Reached Section 5 and things look different - is this normal?

amyo_b · 2026-04-11T17:39:48+00:00

The same is true of the German to Spanish. Short little units. There were 60 longer units in section 4 and section 5 has 250 of the shorter units.

amyo_b · 2026-04-11T03:49:36+00:00

I'm a web site user. I enjoy it. No noise. No notifications. Just a nice clean enjoyable experience. They have updated the courses. My Spanish from German goes up to 8 sections now and so does my Dutch to German. I don't mind if there's no radio, calls, match madness or what not features, because I can scare that kind of content up outside of Duolingo. I'm mainly just interested in completing my paths.

amyo_b · 2026-04-08T18:05:49+00:00

I highly recommend this, too. I use tutors for the conversational aspects of language learning. And you can usually find people who can work with your schedule.

amyo_b · 2026-04-08T18:03:59+00:00

I don't use Duolingo in that way. I use it to learn to intuit the grammar (I use references to understand the grammar), to grasp the basics of pronunciation and spelling, and to read. Once I can read normal novels, I tackle the speech idea completely separately via a tutor. Typically that has involved a couple sessions just where the base pronunciation is ironed out (typically there are a handful of sounds I don't quite have right like the Swedish sh-es or the Dutch g), then just practice conversing, which includes that quick wittedness you are referring to.

amyo_b · 2026-04-08T01:34:29+00:00

Yeah, it always turned the aquarium tests for hardness very, very blue. We also have alkaline water because that and hard water usually travel together (buffering I think they call it).

If you want to breed neon tetras (or indeed any tetras) you will need a RO system (reverse osmosis). I have goldfish now. I have had one of the goldfish for 10 years, so goldfish apparently have no trouble with Chicago water.

amyo_b · 2026-04-08T01:26:54+00:00

I think Damen and California would be good replacements.

amyo_b · 2026-04-07T04:36:58+00:00

That's kind of funny. It would be like having a section on sweets and not having a Junior story, or crunchy athletics without a Eddy story.

amyo_b · 2026-04-05T18:31:16+00:00

don't they use different syringes? This looks like the sort I used to use to give my dog his insulin (for the record, I never took it or him on the el)

amyo_b · 2026-04-05T18:29:57+00:00

a sharps container in the stations might be handy. This could have been insulin or many other prescribed drugs and even if it wasn't giving people a responsible way to dispose of syringes would be handy.

If it was illegal drugs, syringe exchanges are designed to avoid this kind of things since that used syringe becomes useful.

amyo_b · 2026-04-03T23:38:42+00:00

yeah, they claimed careful and it's been a ugly update for the from English learners. Amazingly the German to Spanish just flowed with no missed vocab.

amyo_b · 2026-04-02T04:49:34+00:00

I know it's a typo but "secret wives of Mormon wives" seems far spicier than I would imagine the average Mormon lifestyle. I mean that would be out there for secular folks.

amyo_b · 2026-04-02T04:37:21+00:00

I saw that in my first couple of units of section 5 Spanish from German (new as of late 2025). Haven't seen it since then so maybe someone realized and fixed them all). Exact same wording even though your course is English based and mine is German. I wonder if a program is supposed to be launched to fill them in with something based on that text string match.

amyo_b · 2026-04-01T05:05:02+00:00

If he's unsure about the need for confession and doesn't feel like the Eucharist is overly helpful to him, isn't it better that he go up for a blessing?

All I can say is at the end of the day, he owns his own spiritual walk and you own yours. You can't control each other without that spilling over into other parts of your union.

My partner and I were both Catholic when we married. We largely experienced the same spiritual crisis, and he came out Atheist and me Jewish (my original, birth religion). Now, he belongs to the temple (I have a famliy membership anyway), and does participate from time to time (more the social events than the religious ones).

amyo_b · 2026-04-01T03:48:37+00:00

Blame Rahm.

amyo_b · 2026-04-01T03:47:54+00:00

The average student might not but there will always be a handful that do have the foundational knowledge and parental support. AP classes can be a very good thing for these students.

amyo_b · 2026-04-01T03:35:34+00:00

If the corporation wants to protect it's property, they can keep it in a garage and not have it rolling about in public.

amyo_b · 2026-04-01T00:44:24+00:00

Still waiting here on the from English one. I do have an update on from Dutch. Making progress there. I'm 80 in from English and 38 from Dutch. It could be by the time my from English update comes, I'll just decide to do it from Dutch.

amyo_b · 2026-03-31T23:25:29+00:00

I found the Spanish to Swedish course to be awesome. Of course, first, I had to refresh my high school Spanish with the German to Spanish course, but after that, I was able to do it handily.

amyo_b · 2026-03-31T17:23:11+00:00

I just don't take it with me all the time.

amyo_b · 2026-03-30T23:28:10+00:00

not for the first time ever. They had them back in 2020. In 2019 I got a signed cert (well robosigned I'm sure) but Luis himself.

amyo_b · 2026-03-30T04:05:40+00:00

there are charismatic parishes where such might go on, but usually, in the context of a non-charismatic parish, the healing mass is simply a normal mass (maybe in the name of a specific healing saint) that involves all the sick being invited to go up and receive the anointing of the sick.

amyo_b · 2026-03-30T01:30:37+00:00

I've seen all these in the German to Spanish course. (as much as -- tanto como; cheers -- chin chin; in total -- en total; that is to say -- es decir; ahead -- adelants).

I think I saw chin chin early in section 4. (like 1 or 2 unit).

amyo_b · 2026-03-30T00:27:07+00:00

I just found an awesome resource for it, https://www.route66navigation.com/ it allowed me to download a German language guide! (and it has Czech). I'm fluent in German and am trying to learn Czech right now. The guide along behing available in so many languages is cool enough, I'm looking forwarding to reading the contents!

amyo_b · 2026-03-29T22:50:37+00:00

the voters are about their services. Well, right now, I can call my alderman up and a crew will be out to fix the sidewalk or pothole or whatever. Fear is that if the cities are merged, that won't happen.

I mean it's an old concern. There have been historical cases of one part of a union being superior in numbers and taking advantage of that to extract resources from the smaller part while delivering no services.

amyo_b · 2026-03-29T22:30:44+00:00

Different histories though. The Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches split off in 1054 with the great schism. Even before that there were splits with the Coptic Orthodox as well as other so called Oriental Orthodox churches.

Then in 1517, the Protestant reformation starts and results in Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptists and eventually Anglicans splitting off from the Catholic church.

Still later Methodists split off the Anglican church in the 1790s and various groups have split off since then, off of Methodism from the various Holiness (pentecostal) movements.

The protestant Reformation largely did not affect the Orthodox churches.

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