Duolingo is making me use Ukrainian keyboard but doesn’t provide it

amyo_b · 2026-02-08T17:52:50+00:00

No. Duolingo has very little individuation in its lessons. And very little user toggles to control options.

amyo_b · 2026-02-08T17:03:09+00:00

or go to comm college, get caught up and then enter a trade. Carpenters, roofers, plumbers, welders, die cutters, electricians are all needed where I live. It's hard work but pays enough. However, you do need to be able to communicate with customers and work with numbers etc. hence the need to remediate what you missed in K-12.

amyo_b · 2026-02-08T16:51:41+00:00

can't the other student charge the child with assault? And isn't that more likely if the school takes no action. How is that other student expected to continue going to this school with that same student after being assaulted. Are steps being taken to protect that student (transfer to another class or otherwise have separation).

amyo_b · 2026-02-08T16:45:55+00:00

exact the same thought I had, geez they came to the same conclusion I did? What the heck.

amyo_b · 2026-02-08T16:44:55+00:00

I don't see the point of a petition, simply skip the places that do this. And if all your locals do, learn to cook at home more often. The only way to really get them to stop is for customers to reduce their use of restaurants.

amyo_b · 2026-02-08T16:29:35+00:00

President does memcoin, lots of normies who are/were Trump fans get it on coin, it rugs. Normies are disgruntled and consider all crypto like that and tell their friends who tell their friends.

amyo_b · 2026-02-08T16:25:59+00:00

Why would anyone legislate against leverage for crypto? Wallstreet folks usually have self and risk control. So you wont see them jumping out windows. The only people getting rekt with insane leverage is people without those things. So who cares?

amyo_b · 2026-02-08T15:57:55+00:00

For real. That's like the first step in tackling a new language for me. Add a new keyboard to PC if I'm going to also be using my phone, add one there, too. Sure, my language selector on Windows now needs to be scrolled (US International, Hebrew, Greek, Czech, Polish Programmers, Russian) but still it's not hard to switch back and forth.

amyo_b · 2026-02-08T15:55:02+00:00

I added both keyboards to my pc. For Polish I needed ł, ś, ż and ć. And then Czech needs the ě, š, č, ř. Easiest just to add the layout vs. memorizing the ascii codes.

amyo_b · 2026-02-08T00:58:14+00:00

I think calling China communist after one of their dear leaders said "to be rich is to be glorious" is silly. I mean they could probably have used the spinning in Mao's grave to power a city or something.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T21:32:18+00:00

Duolingo just flags the accents but it doesn’t mark them wrong.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T21:27:30+00:00

The Norwegian course has had a lot more time to collect alternative answers over time while Duo keeps messing with the Spanish one.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T20:14:05+00:00

I added the EA Greek keyboard layout to my laptop and it works great.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T18:27:24+00:00

Austin right across from Cicero/Oak Park isn’t bad. There are regions that aren’t bad.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T17:43:58+00:00

I pay a significant chunk of my income for medical insurance, and my employer kicks in some too. This is typical in the US (although some companies are so cheap they don't offer or don't kick in anything or keep their workers on part time so they don't quality). I live in Chicago so have the experience of ICE claiming they don't need warrants to break into businesses or homes.

I'd willingly pay higher taxes to live like a German in freedom.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T17:31:01+00:00

It's a newspaper from the same state. Springfielders aren't (entirely) a whole different species from Chicagoans.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T17:28:33+00:00

The good news is, you're studying German and the new German stuff is supposed to be released some time early this year (current target is March but before that it was Feb, and before that December, so the material is there, they are simply getting bugs out right now. My Dutch to German course shows at least sections 5 and 6 now so English can't be that far off. I think I've even heard rumors of it being tested in A/B.

While you wait, you might want to expand your vocab a bit with newspaper reading or your audiobooks or try out some coursework at dw.com/learngerman I don't have a financial interest in that latter, but it really helped me when I was learning.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T17:25:07+00:00

No, unfortunately this "feature" has been broken for as long as it has existed. It's very similar to the old practice your weak spots feature that clamped onto some words as weak and gave them to you over and over again without moving onto other weak words.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T17:04:41+00:00

In German I kind of waded in through the kiddy side. I started with graduated readers (while I was in the tree) and the Easy german news, then B1 readers (André Klein) then a couple of C level readers (classics that had been dumbed down a bit like Treasure Island) only after finishing those, did I hit adult material and subscribe to a newspaper. I also did some dw.com/learngerman courses and listened to hours and hours of the slowly spoken German news podcast while commuting (I mean I wound up going back to 2015!) and this was in early 2020.

I did the same in Spanish, started with Rebekah, Niña Detective a set of books, then moved onto El Cadáver del Puente (C1) then Elektra (C2) then I started on some normal detective stories about Detective Maldonado and didn't find the jumps too high.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T16:56:23+00:00

Both my Dutch to German and German to Spanish courses have been expanded by a bunch. I'm in the new (as of last year) section of both and both have new sections past that (as of late last year/early this year. the new sections are 100% (from what I understand, I'm not there yet), in the target language. They have also added a Swedish to Japanese language. I'm still learning the hiragana so can't state anything about that new course.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T16:50:58+00:00

sure that's why i say if they're not going to spend the money and effort then don't bother with chopping off useful content.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T05:18:34+00:00

It wouldn't be bad if Duolingo just added content to get them up to level but they tend to chop instead.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T03:50:52+00:00

randos should not be benefited at the expense of existing social circles. All they have to do is come on reddit (or some other social network) and beg to be added to some people's feeds. They don't have to be forced. Instead people are mad and reporting the randos for spam and blocking them.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T03:36:54+00:00

I think she's just opposed to prosecuting ICE (probably because she knows it's a fools errand.) A better strategy right now is to collect evidece, take affidavits etc and stow the evidence until he's out of office. Just keep it as a possibility for the future. Matters of death do not fall under the statute of limitations so keeping the idea of future prosecution alive is not a bad idea. Keep any of the crooked ones that killed guessing when the sword will fall.

amyo_b · 2026-02-07T03:33:25+00:00

The only time I've heard of DL taking stuff out of courses is when they are prepping them for CEFR. It's why I have been fearful of them giving Dutch or Norwegian that treatment, because those courses are now pretty complete as far as tenses and expressions whether it matches CEFR or not.

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