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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a similar one in Duolingo Chinese which is like "我喝两瓶白酒,现在要睡觉" or "I drank two bottles of Baijiu (Chinese liquor) and now I need to sleep"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They're just teaching the most important words first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Honestly, it is genuinely useful vocabulary to know how to talk about partying in a language, since if you travel to a country you're likely on vacation, which means you're likely to do some drinking.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There needs to be a Lemmy community for crazy Duolingo prompts; I believe there was one on Reddit. The favorite one that I got, translated from French, “I’m sorry that my dog ate your cat”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I had one that said the pigs are eating the noodles in German.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yea I think it was r/shitduolingosays or something like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that’s funny, but right 😄 When you come to Germany you need this sentence 😋

Today there were an article in my feed to these sentences. Article: How nonsense sentences can make learning easier (German)