I've dabbled a little bit in the DuoLingo French (just the free version so far, on the desktop), and will get back on it.Yes, the genders just have to be learned, and I struggle with that. (Were noun genders easier in German? I don't know why they would be, but I took two years of that and don't recall having such difficulty with it.)The thing that boggles me about French, though, is pronunciation, both hearing and speaking. That's a whole world unto itself.
Quote from: ChasSmith on November 12, 2024, 06:36:24 AMI've dabbled a little bit in the DuoLingo French (just the free version so far, on the desktop), and will get back on it.Yes, the genders just have to be learned, and I struggle with that. (Were noun genders easier in German? I don't know why they would be, but I took two years of that and don't recall having such difficulty with it.)The thing that boggles me about French, though, is pronunciation, both hearing and speaking. That's a whole world unto itself. I have a good sense of pronunciation. How, I don’t know. And a decent ear for it. Duolingo certainly pounds it into my brain. But as soon as I hear people speaking in real time at full speed, forget about it.
DR Rodzinski I think it is great you are learning French.
Meanwhile, Trump voters did the exact opposite of tripping the light fantasic... they supported the dark abysmal.
Crazy good 5-year-old playing Mozart.https://www.upworthy.com/5-year-old-italian-piano-prodigy-rocks-mozart-at-international-competition-and-holy-cow-rp
And while I'm giving out prices:$2.54 / $2.69 (BJ's credit card price, everyone else's price) at the pumps. It's been holding there for several days.
