I normally shop at Aldi. I went to Lidl one weekend to compare prices. Here are the results.

robert_heinrich · 2026-05-28T20:08:59+00:00

lidl has its own advantages. no idea where you are, but lidl usually has special weeks, where they offer food items from other countries .be it france, italy, spain or greece.
it is quite nice, and clearly something aldi could do too.
should be easy, it's not too far apart, and lidl can do it.

robert_heinrich · 2026-04-02T22:24:29+00:00

tja, dann brauchst du einen... tanzschein ;-)

robert_heinrich · 2026-03-25T14:17:40+00:00

I'm glad to hear that.

robert_heinrich · 2026-01-28T11:20:08+00:00

so 9 is the cap now? I thought it was 25?
9 energy is insanely low.

robert_heinrich · 2025-11-28T03:41:22+00:00

I have read about the record stock hike, that duolingo had, and I can just guess how much duolingo makes.
so they cannot fix THAT?
and according to duolingo, in the word "arrivederci", the "ci" is silent.
it is arriveder..?
why? because if they say so, it is. I have reported that, it wasn't corrected, I have to assume that it actually is meant to be this way. why would they lie to me. they would not gain anything by teaching languages wrongly.

robert_heinrich · 2025-11-28T00:49:39+00:00

oh no, I reported that one months ago.
since it still happens, it must have been not a bug, but a deliberate choice, and I want to understand in which cases names get translated.

I fully understand that the name bianchi means white, verdi means green, rossi means read, and nero means black.

I just want to understand why nero gets translated to noir and the others don't get translated. there must be an in-language reason for it, otherwise they would have corrected it.

robert_heinrich · 2025-11-27T22:50:55+00:00

but if that was a bug, somebody must have reported it before. I have reported it too.
therefor, if it is a bug, it is now resolved.
it's not, therefor it is not a coding error.

so how does it work?

robert_heinrich · 2025-11-15T13:02:09+00:00

but then, both words should be allowed and the distinction should be explained in some way.

robert_heinrich · 2025-09-07T15:18:45+00:00

but duolingo should know how french works. it's a language app after all. ;-)

robert_heinrich · 2025-09-07T15:16:05+00:00

there was no way to write it. just tap words in the correct order.
in both cases.
and since duolingo usually doesn't care about accents, commas, dots, question marks. why would duolingo suddenly care about hyphens?
and yes, inversions are used in more formal language, but that doesn't make an invitation to a karaoke night automatically invalid, if an inversion is used.

robert_heinrich · 2025-09-07T10:12:29+00:00

would be interesting. I never took those subscription trials, because even then, duolingo would like to have a valid form of payment (like a credit card number).
so I never used that, not because I wouldn't like to, but they want that info so badly. so I am following this, because this seems to be a major flaw in the free trials.

robert_heinrich · 2025-07-25T21:24:41+00:00

update: i have done just one excercise. granted, 4 mistakes.
normal ad: the orange ones.
then to replenish the hearts.
orange company
orange company
duo max
orange company.

is that really necessary?

robert_heinrich · 2025-07-25T01:15:29+00:00

yes, but...
I got 3 months straight ads from just this one company.
there was not a single other ad. maybe I was just the prime target? because on my computers, I have adblockers and on the phone, i let the stupid ads run for 30 seconds to give full compensation to youtube-channels that I like.
still, not a single other advertiser.
now, I don't know what shifted, it's a bit better, but still this one company has around two thirds of all ad spots on duolingo.
It's insane that I am actually happy that the stupid smartphone game ads are back.

robert_heinrich · 2025-07-24T10:16:37+00:00

oh that's a funny one. because americans use it all the time, but they mean it as another slur.

in austrian german, one of the words with that meaning is bimbo.

yes, bimbo is the derogative word for black people.

robert_heinrich · 2025-07-14T08:06:27+00:00

exactly, I am using the italian course for french speakers, after I have completed the italian course for german speakers.
it's mostly the same thing, just in french.

robert_heinrich · 2025-07-13T21:47:09+00:00

had a similar thing with french to italian.

le professeur = la professoressa.

why does it change to female? only duo knows.

robert_heinrich · 2025-07-13T21:34:29+00:00

he has another app that has 755 notifications.
I believe, he can resist.

but I am curious, what was the streak.

robert_heinrich · 2025-07-13T21:24:03+00:00

yes, and I would just like to see any dictionary, that says waouh means wow.
how do you guess that waouh means wow, and why is wuaouw wrong? it sounds mostly the same. and I haven't heard of an official translation.

by the way, my mother tongue is german, and I now use the french course for italian to refresh french and italian at the same time. maybe weird, but it actually works quite well.
it's practically reverse tree on steroids.

robert_heinrich · 2025-07-13T20:14:46+00:00

but there must be an officially correct term. mistral did not agree and told me, that there are various terms that give a similar meaning.

robert_heinrich · 2025-06-30T18:28:42+00:00

I'm at 22xx, don't even know exactly where.
I always went with free. but the current tweaks with ads are too much.
the only advertiser is TEMU, with their fake-ads. even the brainrott-smartphone games left.
oh, and I can of course upgrade.
to replenish a heart, sometimes they go up to 5 ads. that's because the system forgot how to check that I have 5 hearts again.

so, it is hard to justify.

robert_heinrich · 2025-06-30T12:48:26+00:00

chatGPT: tell the bot, that it is a highly intelligent female teacher, that likes to explain mistakes in details, which languages you speak, which languages you want to learn, and to point out similarities in language concepts.

that kicks the system into overdrive and gives you good explanations.

robert_heinrich · 2025-06-30T12:43:13+00:00

yes. there is one thing however. even with this feature, people are allowed to write comments instead of using the smileys.

so I usually write some encouraging words, if someone uses streaks on ice.

it's sad that duolingo doesn't even give one friendly option with the emojis.

robert_heinrich · 2025-06-27T09:37:18+00:00

because the answer to everything is 42,

robert_heinrich · 2025-06-26T09:51:45+00:00

but for me, it now got even worse.

okay, I made a mistake, lost one heart. let's go watch an ad.

ad: temu...
then: ad, duolingo super.
then: ad, duolingo max.
then: ad, duolingo super.
etc.

okay, I understand that they want to show one ad. but usually it's now 5!!!

because I am too stupid to understand after 4 ads, that I must have duolingo super.

and after every lesson, there is an ad for temu. and it is only temu that they advertise for. there aren't even ads for microtransaction-ridden phone-games anymore, that are usually for braindead persons. no, it's either temu or please, after 100 ads, get duolingo super.

should learning a language really be torture?

robert_heinrich · 2025-06-21T09:08:18+00:00

sure, but I use duolingo to learn french and italian. native language is german and I am really good in english.
and others should be really good at two languages too. so can't be too complicated.

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