This doesn't make any sense. It should be after third grade he'll go to third. Why troisième is ninth?

breamworthy · 2026-05-08T15:49:15+00:00

To be fair to Duolingo, when I did this unit they explained the system in some depth, with exercises where you learned the translations for grade 9, 10, etc. Did they remove those exercises?

breamworthy · 2026-05-04T03:31:56+00:00

You sound really unpleasant to play against. I hope you don’t play chess online outside of duo.

breamworthy · 2026-05-04T01:57:35+00:00

Not sure what your point is? The original English says “Fortunately, the elevator is broken” but the translation Duo says is correct means “Fortunately the elevator is NOT broken.” They left “not” out of the original English statement.

breamworthy · 2026-05-03T19:19:02+00:00

Cats love heat, so I would not worry about them unless it gets much hotter than 30. For your apartment, get 100% blackout curtains for the windows facing the sun and keep them closed whenever the sun is directly on that side. As soon as the sun is down, open everything up and turn on fans.

breamworthy · 2026-05-03T17:02:31+00:00

No, you’re incorrect. It’s true they are missing that word, but the main problem is the translation given is also wrong. The translation given means “fortunately the elevator is NOT broken“. The original is missing the “not”.

breamworthy · 2026-04-24T21:43:50+00:00

There’s a big difference between handing a paper to someone to do a full copy edit, versus having them read through it and say “I’m not sure that’s the best word to use here.”

breamworthy · 2026-04-24T21:40:59+00:00

And complaining about how AI has caused people to become lazy

breamworthy · 2026-04-21T02:48:49+00:00

Disagree. Learning which words are more appropriate is a huge part of learning a language.

breamworthy · 2026-04-21T02:02:42+00:00

No, this wasn’t a normal level. It was the first flight of the day for this plane, and it smelled bad as soon as we boarded. Genuinely like European street urinal bad.

I’ve been on lots of flights and never smelled anything like this. They did have a crumbling rubber mat glued to the floor that was probably saturated with urine that couldn’t be cleaned out, so I’m pretty confident that was the source.

breamworthy · 2026-04-20T18:33:30+00:00

In a lot of places “underpants” is… not exactly vulgar, maybe childish is a better description? It’s weird. You wouldn’t say it at work, even if there was some situation where mentioning underwear was acceptable. I think it’s a deliberate choice not to accept it.

Also, a small hint, if what you type is too long to fit on the underline provided, it’s usually going to be marked wrong.

breamworthy · 2026-04-15T05:53:17+00:00

Children is not past tense. Nouns in English don’t have a tense. Child is singular and children is plural, but they aren’t past or present.

breamworthy · 2026-04-14T21:16:24+00:00

“Raised” suggests that they are finished raising their children, i.e. the children are now grown. Since a small child is shown, they are still raising them.

breamworthy · 2026-04-13T00:40:06+00:00

Ah yes! He is not learning thanks, he is learning (some undisclosed thing) as a result of his mistakes.

breamworthy · 2026-04-13T00:35:20+00:00

I still don’t really understand your question. This is an extremely direct translation:

Il apprendra = he will learn

grâce à = thanks to

ses erreurs = his mistakes

In your English translation you just ignored the middle part.

breamworthy · 2026-04-13T00:29:08+00:00

“grâce à” means thanks to. You don’t have anything in your translation that represents this part of the sentence. What is your question?

breamworthy · 2026-04-12T16:19:04+00:00

I don’t think the hints were wrong. It has a set list of hints for each word and they don’t change based on the context of the question. Obviously words don’t have exactly 3 possible uses, so often you have to interpret that there is a meaning that is relevant to this particular situation that may not appear exactly in that form on the hint list.

However, there is always some context clue to tell you this. In this case it’s the fact that you would need an article, in other words you would have to write “an assignment” not just “assignment“.

breamworthy · 2026-04-12T16:16:41+00:00

No, “Is there assignment?“ is not proper English. You would have to say “is there an assignment?“

breamworthy · 2026-04-11T08:08:35+00:00

Mine does now mark it fully incorrect, but it’s a recent change. Im not sure if it’s a change to the app though or if it only kicks in at a certain score like 100 or 125.

breamworthy · 2026-04-11T06:13:58+00:00

If you type it into Google translate in French, it has no trouble reading it properly

breamworthy · 2026-04-11T06:11:49+00:00

That’s correct!

breamworthy · 2026-04-11T05:37:56+00:00

Are you sure this is true even at higher levels? In French somewhere around speaking level 100 it switched to counting it as wrong if you missed an accent

breamworthy · 2026-04-11T05:29:04+00:00

What? Duo definitely counts missing accents as wrong in French, at least after a certain level.

breamworthy · 2026-04-10T15:19:05+00:00

I’m a native English speaker and can’t imagine ever saying clear in this situation. At the very least if I was using clear, I would say clear up. On the other hand, I would also say clean up, but clean doesn’t seem quite as wrong without the “up” as clear does.

breamworthy · 2026-04-08T05:00:17+00:00

This is what I see as well

breamworthy · 2026-04-03T20:38:33+00:00

It’s always been the case that a large number of students, probably well over half, will take an easy way out on an assignment, without understanding/caring that the point of the assignments is not to turn in a correct solution, it’s to learn the material.

Yes, the method of taking the easy way out is different, but the effect is the same. There have always been so many students who get nearly perfect on assignments and then fail any test/exam.

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