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[nekare]

I started using Duolingo to learn French last week, I’m really liking it! I can now say ‘she has a cow’ AND ‘she is a cow’. SUCCESS. (I really thought the examples said she is a cow at first and I was all like say whaaat, but I then I heard a tiiiiiny tinny ‘a’ in there.)

It would be going a lot better if the French hadn’t randomly decided they just wanted to pronounce like the first three letters of a word and infer the rest. WHY. How the hell am I supposed to tell singulars from plurals if I can’t even hear the s at the end??? Anyway, apart from that I think it’s going ok. A lot of it it’s like Spanish and the rest sounds a bit like English so it’s cool. I can’t imagine how weird it must be to learn coming from, I don’t know, Chinese or Russian though. Also, to my Mexican mind more than one accent per word is overkill.

I can’t wait to get to a point where I can get reading Harry Potter in French! :D i've heard that Voldie's middke name is Elvis in that version, and I can't wait to get on top of that

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[nomelon]

If you can get your hands on it, I found pimsleur approach audio stuff very useful when I was learning french. There is enough translation that you know what's going on but it's minimal compared to other audio learning I tried and I found I learned fast with them. As for singular and plural, you have to get that from the preceding word amd liaisons! Good luck!