"το καλό ποπ κορν"
Translation:The nice popcorn
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I imagine compound words just aren't as big of a deal in greek. Compound words are mostly a germanic thing, but can exist in other languages around the world. Not every language necessarily has them, or instinctively uses them.
They marked me incorrect for that. Only difference is that I had the accent mark (πόπκορν).
No, Duo doesn't mark answers wrong for accents, capitals, punctuation. There must have been another problem. We can't see your answer. So you should have made a screenshot or sent a Report.
Yeah. That's why I was surprised I was marked wrong. Maybe I should have reported it. But perhaps I had a typo on there somewhere. I recently started using Gboard, which I am finding more difficult to type with accurately. But it allows me to have more than 4 languages, so it's an acceptable trade-off.
All I can figure out is that, as a Hellenic transliteration of a fairly short English word which we probably all know, which repeats one consonant and one vowel, it will help in learning π, ο, κ, ρ, and ν and in recognizing them by sight in other words.
Yes. As an example of the use of π. Like in my English speaking elementary school, when we learned the alphabet, we had a picture if a cat with C, c, cat.
the popcorn can be good or bad but not nice, therefore the translation seems incorrect.
I've seen too much kaomoji and now when I look at ποπ I just see an emoticon of a person crying
The audio effing sucks. In comparison to their other lessons which are more precise, like their spanish audio.
"Thegoo dpop cor n" was surprisingly correct. Duo doesn't care if there's no or wrong spaces
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I really struggled to get this with the synthesised speech. The 'π's sound like 'κ's & it sounded like one word -> 'κοκόρν'.
It depends on your internet device. If you are on an iPhone or iPad, under “Settings” go to general>Add new keyboard. You can select from there (also includes fun stuff like Russian, Chinese, as well as many European languages that have special accents, etc). Then, when you want to use a different keyboard, you click the globe key and gives you a list of the keyboards you have loaded, you select Greek. To go back to English, click the globe again (between the microphone and 123). I’m guessing android has some similar setup process, but I’m not sure what it is. If you are on a computer, I can’t help other than to tell you to google “alternate keyboards on a Windows PC (or Mac)”
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Whoever they had narrate this sounds like he had one drink too many.
You should notice the title of this Skill..."ABC". It is intended to familiarize learners with the Greek letters. How many new words do you think we could use in this first Skill? Therefore, we chose some words that would sound familiar. No literary or informative goal was intended. There are another 90 Skills and I assure you you'll get much more informative and useful sentences.