Can I pass the Russian tests on Duolingo? Also with my thoughts on the site.
2021 ж. 6 Нау.
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In this video I try the Russian milestone tests on Duolingo and also give my thoughts on the website.
I mainly spoke in Russian during the test because it helps me answer the questions, I made subtitles though.
I used the site when I first started the language and it made me so frustrated that I almost quit. It's so strict with the answers that it wants that even though I can make a whole video only speaking Russian I still can fail these questions because I didn't use the word they were thinking of.
It's a great website if you want to become a translator because that is basically all you are doing. I do find it ridiculous that you can fail a Russian test for not using correct English grammar.
I think Duolingo is a good starting point for learning a language but once you realise how inefficient it is, you become better at learning
It's good for practicing for maybe 5 or 10 minutes but it can't be your main way to learn. There just aren't enough words.
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Why is it inefficient ?
@@Fer-fy8dx It's good for learning occasional words, but not more than that
@@emeraldquest1832 I mean I use it myself and Duolingo teaches grammar and all the cases. I’m almost halfway through the course.
I'm native Russian and I tried to Russian on Duolingo for fun. I've spend about an hour to fully complete it but sometimes I had weird errors and the pronunciation of the several words were quite strange.
I'm a generational speaker and I did this too! I thought some of the pronunciation was weird in some places too, but I guess that's because Russia is so big each region develops its own accent! For example, I pronounce молокo as малако.
@@mariakochanova4180 What's a generational speaker?
@@mariakochanova4180 чего? «Малако»? 🤣
My first language is English and I'm actually learning Russian on my free time. One thing I use to study is Duolingo and even I notice some weird pronunciation of some Russian words
@@mariakochanova4180 eeeeeextremely late reply but that is how it should be pronounced, when the letter "о" is in a word in russian, it's usually pronounced more like an а
Im french and im nearly billingual with english. I just started learning russian and duoling is actually so easy to use! I think its really good for someone that has no clue about a language. Gives you enough to at least have a basic conversation. And they teached me how to get coffee so its a win for me 😂
It can be a useful website, you can learn lots of words and it's free. I'm glad it's useful for you, I just find it way too strict and frustrating.
Hi dude, I know it's been 2 years since you posted this comment but wanted to help you out really quickly... "..... And they taught me" Not ...."and they teached me"
Whoa there! A native Russian here. Surprised how little subs you have. Great work on all the language learning/explaining! Duolingo *is* pretty strict with answers, but that's only because it wants you to understand all the tiny differences and some not-so-obvious things about the language you're learning. The difference between "the" and "this" is that the latter specifically means "этот/эта/это" while the former only implies that both the speaker and the listener know which object you are talking about, i. e. "this chair" - "это кресло", "the chair" - "кресло [, о котором я уже говорил раньше]". At least, that's how I would explain it. Sentences like "Whose sister is she?" would translate into "Чья она сестра?" rather than "Чья сестра она?". I believe Duo marked your answer as incorrect just because of the word order. It would be fun to see you continue this self-torture. P. S. Have you ever considered Japanese? I've been learning it for ~6 months on Duo and, save for some "inconveniences", I'm mostly satisfied with everything. Or should I say, 日本語を勉強するのが好きです。
Thanks, yeah it can take a while to get subs on youtube. I'll probably make a series out of this and see how far I can go. Half the time when I use duolingo I feel like I'm taking an English exam and I find it way too frustrating. No I haven't tried Japanese other than trying to learn Hiragana for a few days. Learning kanji is what intimidates me about that, if I learn it I would probably learn Chinese first to make it slightly easier.
@@languageswithtom2634 If the symbology is what’s getting to you may I suggest Korean? I learned a bit of Japanese from my Japanese grandmother but picking up Korean for me was much quicker, especially the writing.
@@languageswithtom2634 ну, с другой стороны, своим английским ты объясняешь нам, русскоговорящим, как правильно писать эти предложения именно на английском :D (вообще я заметил, как сильно проседает знание английского среди англоговорящих в сравнении со знанием русского у русскоговорящих, у вас такой плохой уровень образования или в чём может быть проблема?)
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="286">4:46</a> is wrong actually. Not "пюрей" - "пюре".
They let you away with some spelling mistakes once you have the general word.
not ""пюрэ"?
@@DianaT-ph6iz sometimes foreign words get loaned with e but pronounced with э, like шоссе
Most useful Duolingo phrases in Russian: "I will draw a bear on the desk, and then I will quickly go home." Я нарисую на столе медведя, а потом быстро пойду домой. "Люди во всём мире принимают душ, и только ты не хочешь." People all over the world take showers, and only you do not want to.
I'm 10 hours into Duolingo Russian and the sentences are not useful at all.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I tried Russian on Duolingo and failed miserably. And I'm a native Russian
Duolingo doesn't test how good you are at Russian. It test how good you are at translating Russian to English and English to Russian and in some situations how good you are at reading the mind of the people who made the test.
@@languageswithtom2634 Yep. And that's pity. Though even Duo moderators say that you should use the site as a supplementary resource, not as the main one (Translation: Duo is not a teaching site, it's a language related game). Also, some constructions there were pretty strange, though grammatically correct. As for voices... I don't even want to start talking about this. Sometimes to answer correctly you must ignore the audio, or turn it off. For example, they don't use intonation to mark questions. As you know, in case of general questions intonation is THE ONLY way to dstinguish a question from a statement in Russian. And considering that in English it's not the case, I had to turn off the audio in the end to prevent myself from making mistakes. Japanese is even worse on Duolingo . Due to the fact that Japanese and English differ drastically (much more than English and Russian), pure computer based approach doesn't work well there, especially considering that Japanese is a higly context-dependent language. I also tried German and it worked more or less. It may be related to the fact that German and English are closer related... or due the fact that German is my weakest language and I just wasn't able to see what was wrong there )
Дружище, отличная работа! Продолжай в том же духе 🤎
You seem so chill! I'm learning Russian and Spanish right now, and Duolingo is great for getting the basics, and building up the routine of learning. It can be finnicky with only taking specific words, but that helps me personally because I recognize mistakes. Especially in terms of accents for writing.
as a fluent in russian i am very surprised with your high skills in russian although duolingo is not the very best place to learn russian lol
Thanks and yeah I didn't use duolingo at all to learn it. It was just an interesting video idea. Most of the time I read books, watch tv series and have conversations.
"Привет, лошадь" прозвучало очень странно х)
Это Duolingo, предложения обычно странные
@@languageswithtom2634 я знаю
i'm "learning" japanese on Duolingo, and as it doesn't provide japanese course for russian (who i'm) -> i go japanese course in english. And it sometimes challenge my english in a more harsh manner then japanese :D hahaha
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="305">5:05</a> There the subtitles say “Hello bear”, but лошадь actually means horse
I have no idea why I wrote Bear, thanks I've changed it
Wow! Your channel is very underrated. I just started using duolingo to learn Japanese, and it is getting a bit frustrating. The reason for that is because every time I finish a lesson, I forget most of the words and handwriting becasue they didnt introduce it separately.
I’m learning Russian and for me there’s a separate tab for me where u can learn the letters separately but I’m not sure if u have that, just try playing around with it or something
Nice, you got decent level, you speak confidently which is really important, молодец. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="786">13:06</a> yeah that was fucking dumb, the most correct answer is "Чья она сестра?", but yours is acceptable too since as you know words can be in any order in Russian
i think it would accept both, «чья это сестра?» and «чья она сестра?», but «чья сестра она?» isn’t grammatically correct.
@@danathequeen9428 "чья сестра она?" is absolutely grammatically correct
@@MrKuriIIko depends on the context. For example if we are saying "Чья это сестра?" then we get our answer and after that ask about another girl "А чья сестра она?" then yes, since we emphasize the person we are talking about. We are trying to show that we shifted our attention to another person. Basically "Чья сестра она?" is incorrect unless we are asking the question more than one time
Alternative tittle: bunch of native speakers argue about what is acceptavle in their own language lmao
@@MrKuriIIko It maybe grammatically correct, but the problem is that something correct does not necessarily means it is widely used. (пример тому "одевать" и "надевать", все знают - одевают кого-то, но на устоявшееся "одевай шапку" никто не обращает внимания) For me "чья сестра она" sounds like someone thought of one thing but then suddenly in the middle of the phrase decided to say another thing. Чья это and чья она are both good though.
Greetings from Russia. You did an impressive job. The test was not easy at all, our language is tricky. You are really good.
Native speaker here, you're doing great!
Угадал слово "скрипка" :) На самом деле нельзя сказать "даже если" в том предложении, потому что тогда будет значение "even at times when" (не знаю, понятно ли). В общем, либо "хотя", либо "несмотря на то, что". Классное видео!
согласна, перевод в таком случае был бы “even if”
Another native here and wow, you're great! 👍
Привет! Mate, you speak nicely!
Не знала что англичане учат русский язык. Ну а так успехов вам, в изучении этого языка.
you're pretty entertaining, dude)
Thanks!
@@languageswithtom2634 gonna learn some russian further?
@@torgon2711 Right now I'm not focusing on it and only practicing it every so often to not forget things. But I will do in the future.
@@languageswithtom2634 very good, you can even speak it. im sure you studied it somewhere beyond Duolingo
@@torgon2711 I only used duolingo for about a week at the start and got too frustrated with it. I mostly read books and translated what I didn't understand and then started trying to speak when I could understand enough.
Good job 😁👍
Было приятно смотреть. Спасибо за видео! 😉
Молодец! Ты хорошо чувствуешь язык!!!
This is me with Spanish, it took me two hours to finish the final test, even though I fucking understood everything, it’s incredibly stupid
красава брат, продолжай в том же духе
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="835">13:55</a> это было жестко )
(i know this is late and you probably already know this but anyways) <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="689">11:29</a> they are not the same thing though, "даже если" means "even if" while "хотя" means "even though" also what do you mean by "words like whose in russian are extremely rare" at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="772">12:52</a>? also also чё (what) and чьё (whose) are different words with different pronunciations (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="860">14:20</a>)
Duolingo isn't a primary way to learn any language, but it's a fun game to get you started in a new language. I was surprised to be able to understand some of what's being said in the Russian comments on this video almost exclusively due to playing this game for a few minutes each day. Duo also has forums for most questions where they have native speakers able to answer your questions on grammar, pronunciation, spelling, colloquial uses, etc. When I get something wrong I take my education online (using my computer, not my phone) and find resources that can help me bone up on verb tenses, formal manors of address, or figuring out what patronymics are.
I've been using Duolingo for over a year now and had no idea there was a forum where you could get questions answered. Could you please let me know where to find this?
Me,fluent in russian: 👁👄👁🍿 haha
I tried Duolingo for a while and found it also very annoying, and if English isn't your native language it's even harder. I stepped over to Babbel which brought me a basic level of Russian for simple interaction.
Did you identify мотор properly?
Вы большой молодец. Я бы тоже перевела как "Эта женщина здесь?". Чувак = guy тоже отлично. В предложении "My sister is reading this book even though she does not understand it" вариант с "даже" звучит не натурально, но понятно. С "даже" хочется сказать что-то вроде "Она прочтет эту книгу, даже если не поймет ее". А так, думаю, что ошибка была еще из-за "систра" через "и". "Whose sister is she" ваш вариант правильно звучал бы как "Чья она сестра?"
iconic for knowing the word чувак
One of the things I don’t like about Duolingo is sometimes it’s wrong and I’m right, and it can be confusing because of lack of context.
iconic for knowing чувак
Вариант с «even though” меня самого смутил
«даже если» переводился как «even if», а так правильно сказать либо «не смотря на то, что» или «хотя»
Он скорее всего был бы принят, не допусти он ошибку в слове "сестра", написав "систра".
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="303">5:03</a> plate - dish - is блюдо? нет? table dish, not a kitchen utensil...what is this programme?
duolingo: 5 more to go and i will let your family Go
Currently studying Russian
The test would be more accurate with parentheses after each sentence)))
How long have you been learning Russian? You sound great
It's hard to say because I started learning it like 6-7 years ago but I only really learned it in a dedicated way for 3 years. Now I just talk occasionally to not forget things.
Удачи в изучении :) "даже если" - действительно неправильно
молодец
Привет! У тебя очень хороший уровень русского!
What keyboard do you use to switch to russian - english?
I was too lazy to learn the russian layout and use a multilingual keyboard. I just use a regular keyboard and use the mnemonic russian layout. It's basically the same as the english layout. Like this: Я сейчас пишу на русском = q sejchas piwu na russkom That's what I'm typing.
@@languageswithtom2634 ти дуже красавчик
@@languageswithtom2634 а ти буде вивчай українською мовою відео? and you'll learn the video in Ukrainian language?
Где Вера Ивановна? и на этом моменте я оркнул)))
I’m learning russian with this app and I love it
Wait bro
Because
You must have a consciousness even for the english 🤬
@@quaesitorveritatis2643 what ?
@@GreatReplacement knowledge for the english(which i haven't)* sorry
You almost have a finnish accent? :D
Токиеже ощущение когда делаю англиский в Duo
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="371">6:11</a> - в этом конкретном случаи я одобряю педантичность. Ведь сказать "парень" правильнее и культурнее. Чувак - это "dude", мужчина - "man". Не зря же это отдельные слова.
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<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="787">13:07</a> nah your version was correct
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="791">13:11</a> Чья сестра она is also right translate, It sounds a little bit strange but it doesn't matter, duolingo is wrong
Nobody says "Чья сестра она". It's wrong
I from Russia so i can help you
Почему это так сложно
А у тебя неплохой такой русский
Хороший русский.
пиуре is mashed potatos
im russian but i have no russian keybored
Bro how do you search in russian?
Действительно, "это", по отношению к сестре - оскорбительно. Видюшка - нормас. Продолжай =)
Но "Чья сестра она" - допустимо, но плохо.
@@tackesi "Чья она сестра" было бы очень хорошо. Возможно дуолинго порядок слов не принял?
@@nightyonetwothree нет, твой вариант - хороший
Вы хорошо говорите про русски, хоть и делаете элементарные ошибки. Вам нужна практика, а не Дуо
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="287">4:47</a> DUOLINGO WRONG IT SHOULDN'T HAVE Й ! Пюре is correct
Почему-то маннеризмами напоминает Pewdiepie. Что-то в этом приятное
*awkward laugh*
Good job, but your accent is something you really need to work on... Good work tho!
I am Russian, it's to funny for me hear how he try to learn my language, Я как смысл жизни)
почему пытается? Он весьма хорошо говорит
You know which is the biggest problem in Duolingo??? Is that if you are not a native english speaking person (at least- not a perfect fluent in english) tha wants to learn russian, in the translation RUS->ENG even if you perfectly understand the russian sentence, you can easily fail because you dont put down the eng tranlation in the perfectly correct order!!!! I tried by a week, and you cannot know how many "porcodio" am i shouting!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Grande. Io infatti sono molto in difficoltà nel continuare i test di lingua ceca (della Repubblica Ceca)
Bro don't play this app, is useless. For my soggettive reason, to the app i'm learning the Czech, the gramatic is a little bit Easy but the problem wich i can't understand which there aren't an ordinary rule
Сидит русский, подделывает американский акцент😂
РОССИЯ СВЯЩЕННАЯ НАША ДЕРЖАААВАААААА
U a bit edgy
давай вивчайте українською мову? там вже