Où est la plume de ma tante?

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Last year I thought I'd try out Duolingo just to see what it was like. God damn, this is a really fun way to kill time; way better than your basic Match-3 app. "But Amelia, what languages are you"ALL OF THEM.* I'm either gonna become a phenomenal code-switching polyglot or I'll be completely unintelligible for the rest of my life. It's a blast, though! Makes me want to start coming up with Duolingo-style lessons for my latest conlang.

So! I'm BloodyRoseMcCoy on tht site, too. Anybody wanna be language buddies?


*Even French, despite my asethetic distaste for it. Figures I'd be having the most fun with it.

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[redbird]

I'm the Vicki number something or other who just followed you there.

I'm poking at German and French, swapping back and forth every so often. The French is frustrating because I've gotten far enough into the course that the pronunciation, and especially vowels, is making the spoken/listening part difficult.

I'm still learning some of the German pronunciations, too, but I can usually distinguish between the two words it's asking me to tell apart in the listening questions. What I wasn't expecting is that at least the dialect/pronunciation they're teaching is seriously non-rhotic, and also drops l's.

Oh, it will not accept "plume" for "pen," and I had to be well into the course before it would accept "courriel" as well as "e-mail."

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Found you!

I want to get into German, but I'm afraid it will overwhelm my already-silly brain!

The "plume de ma tante" is a reference to Suzy Izzard's

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Found you!

I want to get into German, but I'm afraid it will overwhelm my already-silly brain!

The "plume de ma tante" is a reference to Suzy Izzard's <a href"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2144967852385612">language labs</a> bit! It is burned into my brain, along with most of her work.

[spacewastrel]

One of my friends used to talk about using that a lot! I often wondered what you'd think of it yourself.