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Stop introducing new material that we have to literally translate word for word and miss it! OMG.
Learning systems like duoLingo don't ship with a textbook to introduce new material. As a result, your first time into a new section will always feel like a pre-test. If you always passed the pre-test 100%, you wouldn't need duoLingo.
Personally, I never count on getting all the hearts during my first pass-through; though I work hard to get all the hearts afterward. I take the emotion that accompanies heart loss, and try to invest it into strengthening the memory.
I agree; if you lose a heart, that's just motivation to study harder. You can always look it up somewhere else if completing each lesson with full hearts is really that important, or just retake it again after learning what the word means.
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Don't know where this heart losing or earning comes from as learning from DuoLingo on my smartphone has never used it as incentive to learning???
No hearts for me, either. :-) Here's one for YOU, though! ❤
Wow! Do most of you jump straight into "test" mode to jump to the next level instead of doing the 15 to 25 exercises in each level?
I usually complete all the exercises in each level, especially in the first 3 level in each topic. Rarely do I take the test mode.
Maybe I'm seeing things in a different place from where you are, but what's wrong with this sentence that isn't an issue with all of the others?
Do people use this phrase in Italian as a equivalent to "see you later" i.e. as a parting word? So, I could say "ciao" or "a domani" (if I will be seeing the person the next day)?
Yes; see you later is actually "a dopo" or "ci vediamo dopo", but you can use any time (e.g. "a stasera").
Thanks! How about "a più tardi"? I haven't seen it in Duolingo yet, but I think I've heard it before. Is it a valid variant of "see you later" as well?
This is like the french "à demain". I tried translating it in English as "until tomorrow" - which is not really used but was the best I could come up with - and it was accepted.
I should have gone with my instincts and my knowledge of French as you did, but instead I used a literal translation...and was marked wrong. Grrrrrr
I wrote the same, as I wanted to say 'til tomorrow, but wasn't sure wether the short form would be accepted. My answer however was not accepted. So I'm a little confused why yours was accepted...
I'm still lost. What part does the A play in this sentence. I'm just not getting this.
It's a common enough expression in several western European languages. Adieu. A domain. Adios. A domani. In whichever language, it is a way of saying, "Farewell until tomorrow." Only, without the "farewell."
I think there's something wrong with this because when I click the A to see what it means it gave me the same
None of them. The English translation "see you tormorrow" isn't a direct translation of the Italian, but it's the nearest English equivalent of the phrase (given that a more direct translation wouldn't commonly be used in English)
Isn't this considered a colloquialism? If so, shouldn't it be in the "Phrases" unit?
"Til" would actually be Old English :-P It should be either 'til (shortening of "until") or till (to, up to, until). Until was originally a compound of un-till, but nowadays it's so much more used that "till" is considered to be its shortening.
I understand the expression "a domani!" as "see you tomorrow!". But could I ever say "a domani" meaning "to tomorrow"? For example: "lui lascia il cibo a domani" (he leaves the food to tomorrow - he's not eating it today)
Till is where you store money. Til is short for until so should be represented as 'til. Til should be an acceptable answer.
Sorry to rock the boat. Yes, "till" is where you store money and you can "till" the soil. However. "till" as a synonym of "until" is spelled with 2 ts and it is the original word not an abbreviation of until. Just, the opposite first came "till" then "until". "Til" is Old English and Old Norse of course it might also be regional.
Just google "till origin".
Edit I should have written "...is spelled with two Ls...".
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The sun will come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there'll be sun.
Much like "A demain" (same meaning) in French.
Which Romance language is older? Italian or French?
What does the A mean here? I feel like I started seeing it and variations of it but never really learned what it is.
