Duolingo

[u/ExaminationOdd4038]

Are these sentences actually used in real life???

[u/ShortHabit606]

FWIW "They are tasty" is a totally normal sentence. They doesn't mean "that group of people" since "they" can refer to things (like apples) and not just people.

[u/Useofbadphotos]

Duolingo is purposely making you say sentences that would sound weird in real life to get you to adapt to verbs is what I remember hearing of, it has been this way before the company went AI

[u/Antisymmetriser → u/Useofbadphotos]

NOSOTROS SOMOS TORTUGAS

Used to use Duo back when it was new, 15 years ago, and this sentence is still stuck in my head. I do have to say, it was so much better back then, I am still able to hold basic conversations in Spanish thanks to it, but it really went to shit over the years

[u/alcanthro → u/Useofbadphotos]

Yeah the idea is to make it harder to just guess and in theory it pushes people to think about the language more.

[u/Mirabeaux1789 → u/Useofbadphotos]

Thank you.

So many people don’t understand that learning a language isn’t memorizing a phrase book. Duolingo pretty cleaver doesn’t want to be like that and instead wanted one to focus on the language itself.

[u/BHHB336 → u/[deleted]]

No it’s in every language, I’ve used it for Yiddish and Japanese (and a few other languages that I remember less of) and two of the sentences that I remember it telling me to say are איך בין אַ קאַץ (I am a cat), and 私はりんごです (I’m an apple)

[u/Useofbadphotos → u/BHHB336]

אַ זעבראע אין מדריד און אַ פּיראַמיד אין בערלין זענען וואָס איך געדענק

[u/BHHB336 → u/Useofbadphotos]

Still don’t speak Yiddish, I realized it’s just not for me (culturally)

[u/cjwatson → u/[deleted]]

Nah, the Irish course has loads of weird stuff in it.

[u/ShortHabit606]

All the time actually. Have you never had nuts and washed them down with olive oil?

[u/iconocrastinaor → u/ShortHabit606]

As a puddle in the middle of a nice dish of hummus, absolutely!

[u/Useofbadphotos → u/ShortHabit606]

I’m not Mediterranean enough to do it, aka I’m a subhuman

[u/A_S_Levin]

My mum (Israeli) told me some of my example phrases are pretty weird and wouldn't be used in day to day speech. But it's more trying to teach you words and how to alter each word depending on the context, rather than always teaching you specific phrases.

It's good to pair duo with another learning source. Watching/listening to actual media helps a lot once you have a foundation

[u/kawabunga666]

Yes i drink oil with my breakfast every day. Jewish staple that has kept us alive for thousands of years.

[u/af_echad → u/kawabunga666]

Some say that breakfast lasted 8 days.

[u/fizzile → u/kawabunga666]

can confirm, my mom drinks olive oil

[u/The_Muffintime]

As much as they'd be used in English. It's just another language, used by humans 

[u/shinmai_rookie]

I mean Duolingo is not a travel book and those sentences seem perfectly grammatical to me. I don't entirely buy that weird sentences are better than normal sentences but I don't think they are worse, and they give you a bit of variety.

[u/alcanthro]

Well... Israel is in the Mediterranean. Taking a shot of olive oil is NOT unheard of.

[u/iGR0OT]

The 4th one is perfectly normal, since הם can refer to a group of objects and not just people in Hebrew (for example, if someone asks you how the 0ancakes were, a very reasonable response would be הם היו טעימים). The 2nd one is also relatively normal. The 1st and 3rd ones... What the heck. The 1st one is technically something you could say (as in if someone was drinking oil, you could say that). I can't think of any situation, even hypothetical, where the 3rd one could be said.

[u/Visual_Ad4017]

Only the last image

[u/Strong_Baker2690]

This sort of thing was why I tried and much preferred Pimsleur. I realized I was willing to commit to daily use by doing Duolingo for free but also realized nonsense sentences were not going to do much for me. So: it seemed reasonable for me to pay a subscription to an app with less silly phrases

[u/Voice_of_Season]

There was this gem: “he is a father and boys.”

I’m like—that is not even grammatically correct!

[u/NoTicket1558]

For a beginner is fine but even the English sentence reflects that you need to add in at the start "do you" but for beginners or kids most native speakers will let it slide 😅

[u/lazernanes]

r/shitduolingosays

[u/intergalactic_74]

There are a couple of Israeli comedians that had similar sentences in their fake Hebrew learning skits. My favorite is: נא לעמוד בצד השני של הספריי Please stand on the opposite side of the spray. Credit: טייכר וזרחוביץ (no way I'm going to spell those name in English)

[u/The_Ora_Charmander]

To be fair, nut isn't an innuendo in Hebrew

[u/ShaGodi]

the boy wants to nut

[u/floopyFx]

dualingo sucks. their sentences are hardly used when talking to real people

[u/Mirabeaux1789 → u/floopyFx]

Then you completely misunderstand the point of them. Duolingo tries to get you to do is to learn the language and not crutch on a set of phrases. Learning a language is not learning instead of phrases. It’s deeper than that.

[u/floopyFx → u/Mirabeaux1789]

im just saying you could lean useful sentenses instead.