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Good day everyone.
Welcome to the Lange focus channel.

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My name is Paul.
Today I'm going to be talking about 

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something that has been all the rage 
recently,

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something called duo lingo.
Now this is a totally free language 

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learning platform.
It has a online desktop version and also

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a smart phone version.
It's something that I haven't gotten 

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around to trying until just recently 
because I've been so busy with other 

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things,
but everyone's talking about it.

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People keep asking me,
hey,

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have you tried to do a lingo?
So I had to get on it and see what I 

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thought of it.
So I started duolingo lingo just a few 

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days ago.
I started with Esperanto.

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Why did they choose Esperanto?
Well,

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I wanted to start with a language I've 
never studied before just so I could try

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out the platform and focus on that.
I'll test out Esperanto and duo lingo at

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the same time.
That was my thinking.

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So my basic impressions of duo lingo is 
that it's a great free resource that you

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can use a,
it's excellent,

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it's motivating,
it's fun,

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but it's not the only thing that you 
should use for reasons that I will get 

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into in a minute.

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So let's just have a look and see how it
works.

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You can see right here,
this is my profile page that's me over 

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here,
Paul Jorgensen.

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And you can see over here on my language
is Esperanto level six.

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Let's look back at this page over here.
The basic theme of duo lingo is 

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gamification.
They want language learning to be like a

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game,
something that can motivate you and keep

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you studying every day.
Because one of the biggest problems with

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language learning is that people give up
and there are not consistent.

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I have a video about consistency.
It's very important.

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Consistency is king had.
You really need to study every day if 

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you want your skills to keep 
progressively improving.

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So they're trying to solve that problem 
of lack of consistency by making it a 

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game.
So if you look over on the left down 

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here,
we have an Esperanto skill tree.

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They have that for every language.
Of course it starts off with basics.

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So you go in here,
this is one skill.

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Then you have a few lessons for each 
skill and then you move on to the next 

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one,
to the next one,

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and as you move down,
you're achieving targets.

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You're getting something called 
experience points.

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So over here,
like my goal is set at 20 experience 

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points per day.
If I get that,

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then I've met my goal today.
I went on a rampage,

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I've got 380 because I wanted to just 
get a lot under my belt before talking 

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about Duolingo.
But if you meet your target,

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it's just like a,
you know,

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you're patting yourself on the back 
thing.

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Yay,
I got,

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I met my goal for my experience points 
for today and you get something called a

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streak.
So I'm on a two day streak yesterday.

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I surpassed my 20 experience points 
today,

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surpass by a long shot.
So if you keep up that streak,

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then you start to get some other rewards
as well.

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The experience points that you get when 
you are on a streak.

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But also when you finish some of these 
skills and when you do some translation 

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services or when you do some kind of a 
time to practice,

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you get these experience points and 
they're basically just a way,

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a symbolic way to motivate you.
But there are these other reports called

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lean gods I've been got from,
it gets whatever you call them and you 

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get these when you finish a new skill 
for the first time.

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And also when you've leveled up to a new
level,

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then you get a certain number of 
[inaudible].

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So if you level up to level four for 
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you'll get four ling got sore.

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If you pass level 10 then you'll get 10 
lingo.

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It's like that.
And then when you finish a new skill and

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you get,
I forget how many exactly,

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you get to mingle or something and they 
build up.

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So when you get enough of this lingo I 
these little jewel things,

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then you can go to the link.
Got Store and you can buy some neat 

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stuff with them.
Now these are mostly just for the 

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purpose of gamification and nothing 
useful.

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You can't order like the tee shirt or 
whatever as far as I know,

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but you can do stuff like this,
a strict freeze.

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So if you need to take a day off and you
don't want to end your streak,

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then you can buy a streak freeze for 
four 10 link dots.

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Or here's a little gambling,
a fun activity,

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double or nothing.
You can bet five lane guts and maybe 

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you'll,
you'll get 10 link God's back if you 

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maintain a seven day streak.

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So it's just basically wagering on your 
own ability to maintain your streets.

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So it's just kind of a fun way to make 
use of this lingo lights.

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Another couple of things.
You can take a time to practice so you 

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can see how well you're doing.
That costs 10 lingo.

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You can take a quiz,
a progress quiz,

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and that costs 25 lingo.
So all these things that you can buy 

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with those lingo that you earned.
There were also a couple of additional 

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items available on the smartphone only 
and you can buy some special clothing 

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for the duo mascot,
a mascot and duos an hour and you can 

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buy some clothing for him.
So when he appears on your screen to 

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congratulate you on a job well done,
he'll appear in his new updated closing.

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That's another reward you can buy with 
your lingo.

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So again,
it's just a fun thing to motivate you.

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Having things like experience points and
rewards for your successes,

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that's something that will appeal to a 
lot of people who are into role playing 

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games or video games,
that kind of thing.

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And it's really expanding language,
learning into off all new audience.

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And I think that that's really great.
Another element of duo lingo that helps 

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motivate you in a game like way is that 
you can connect with your friends and 

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you can follow each other's progress.
So you can see how much they've done 

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today,
how many experience points they've 

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gotten today.
And if you've got more than you can call

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them out on that and you can challenge 
them or you can make bets with each 

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other,
that kind of thing.

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So it's really good just to keep each 
other accountable.

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Some people don't need that personally.
I don't really need that kind of 

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accountability,
but some people really do.

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And for them it's great.
Okay.

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So getting into the actual language 
taught and the learning method,

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I really liked the order of the language
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It's a very logical,
and it starts from the beginning and 

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progress into the more advanced material
starts with very basic sentence 

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structures,
like a basic vocabulary,

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like uh,
the translation for men.

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Okay.
Veto,

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right.
So that's correct.

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Yes.
I know what's correct.

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So continue me and the STSV.
I am not you.

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That's what that means.
I am not used to put that in.

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Check it.
Get lost a CC cleaner.

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Don't need you.
Right.

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So that's correct.
Let's continue.

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LACMA,
marbles,

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and that means the boy.
So it's just basic vocabulary and it's 

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just basic sentence structures.
Like,

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I am you,
I am not you.

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I am a boy.
I am a man starts with very simple 

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stuff.
Just a equals b sentences.

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Yes.
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go back.
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and then it progressively gets more of 
advanced start building up some more 

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basic grammar and some basic vocabulary.
The accusative,

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plurals possessive,
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animal vocabulary,
country vocabulary.

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So it's very basic stuff.
But as you get down here,

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then you get more into the advanced 
grammar,

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more events,
topics,

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health,
travel,

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education.
So it,

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it looks quite good.
I haven't gotten through all of it yet,

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but I'm a third of the way through or 
something.

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And I think the order that they teach 
the language and it's quite good,

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the selection of vocabulary is quite 
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And the sentence,
it gets you to produce our,

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well,
not totally natural there.

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They're basic and they are the sentences
you should be learning at this level.

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I think.
So let's go into another skill that I 

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was doing more recently.
We'll just kind of,

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I'll redo it and walk through it with 
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So this one Bonai Pat Toi have us long 
Gyne Tago in.

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So that means I know what it means.
Literally.

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I don't know what they're trying to say,
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days.
What the heck does that mean?

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I'm not quite sure,
but that's what it says.

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So when you are looking at a sentence 
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sometimes you have to translate it and 
sometimes from Esperanto into English,

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sometimes English into Esperanto.
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a word or um,
just look for vocabulary matching,

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that kind of thing.
But under each,

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each point there's a link here.
You can discuss the sentence with your 

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peers.
You can look down here and discuss and 

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ask questions about the sentence.
Like this one,

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people are saying,
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Cause they don't know what the message 
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What the community interactions kind of 
neat gives you a chance to discuss 

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things and get further clarification if 
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Vito Estos Bella.
Okay.

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So that means,
oh man is handsome.

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So that's another very basic sentence.
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oil,
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right?
Veto a with the J at the end.

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If your toy men are handsome.
So it gives you the correction down here

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at one thing I don't like is that it 
doesn't give you a chance to enter the 

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correct sentence if you get something 
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There's actually,
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psychological reasons behind this that 
you should have a chance to correct the 

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mistake.
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when I'm teaching my students,
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I always have to give them a chance to 
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I don't want to leave them hanging.
It leaves a kind of open loop where they

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feel like they've failed and they 
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So it just,
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dissatisfaction.
I don't like that.

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I would prefer if they change so that 
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right here after you have gotten it 
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That's just a psychological thing and 
educational concept that I think is 

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important.
I hope they can fix that in the future.

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But anyway,
moving on,

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Julep has sona,
it's dust.

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Malibu owner is the person in bed.
That's what it means.

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Is the person bad check it being yes.
So you can see as you get them correct.

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Then this progress bar starts moving 
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And when you reach this area,
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skill.
But the exercises are slightly different

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on the smartphone application.
It's not always entering them in a box.

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Sometimes they have a bunch of tabs with
words on them and you can arrange those 

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words.
So you're practicing the syntax.

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Some of the smartphone exercises are a 
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Um,
but both of them are good.

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You can do both.
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one thing that you might notice is that 
it's all just sentence translation.

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You're given a sentence and you have to 
translate it or you're given a phrase 

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and you have to translate it or you have
to just complete a sentence with a word 

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like that.
That duo lingo is great for learning the

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basic sentence structure of a language 
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basically for making sentences.
It's similar to something like the 

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Michelle Thomas Method,
which I think is useful,

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but it's kind of limited because you 
just learn how to translate into your 

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target language basically.
So it's not really giving you the 

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interactive skills,
it's not teaching you the discourse 

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skills that you need to be able to 
communicate in a real context,

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so that's its main weakness,
but it is good for teaching you how to 

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make sentences.
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another weakness that I think is 
actually quite critical as that duo 

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lingo can't really effectively be used 
offline.

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I was in Philippines just this week and 
in Philippines they don't have reliable 

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internet.
With your data connection with your 

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smartphone or on even on your laptop at 
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often there's an inconsistent wifi 
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so it made it really hard and almost 
almost pointless to use duo lingo when I

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was out on the go,
especially with my data on my smartphone

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because you just walk 10 steps and 
you're out of range or you,

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you turn a corner and you're out of 
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you sit in a coffee shop and you're out 
of range.

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So I would have to sit there and wait to
know if my answer was correct or I would

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know it was correct,
but I would have to wait for the next 

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question to load until I got into range 
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trouble to even bother.
So I really didn't bother with duo lingo

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when I was in Philippines this week.

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So that's just one thing that I think 
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especially if they want dual lingo to be
a truly global service.

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They're going to have to make it so that
you can do it offline.

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Like you can download some of the levels
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skills,
do them offline,

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and then you can upload your progress 
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I think that's really important.
They really need to do that.

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I know that some other applications do 
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so I hope duo lingo gets on top of it.
That will be really useful for people 

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like me who travel and really useful for
people who are in developing countries 

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or places where there's inconsistent 
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But in conclusion,
I think duolingo was an excellent free 

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resource,
especially because it's free.

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I just think that that's really cool 
that you can get the service for free 

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and then maybe an exchange volunteer,
you're a translation services just as a 

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gift back to them.

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I think that that's a really cool way to
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Using crowdsourcing in exchange for some
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I think that's awesome and it just shows
where we are in 2015 it's an awesome 

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online economy as far as I'm concerned.
So I think if duo lingo balances the 

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skills taught a little better,
if it gives you more opportunity to do 

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some kind of simulated interaction,
like some question and answer exercises 

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and that kind of thing,
it gives you a little more listening 

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practice,
then it will become even more useful.

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So I hope they keep expanding the 
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but even as it stands,
it's great.

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It's a fun way to just practice on the 
go.

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It's a fun way to dabble in a new 
language a little bit.

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If you want to see what it's like,
it's free.

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It's easy to start.

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It's fun because of the game of vacation
features.

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So I think Duolingo is on the right 
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pretty awesome.
So I hope you try it out.

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Thank you for tuning into length focus.
This is Paul.

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Have a good nights.
See Ya all over the world.

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There are people who speak closely 
related forms of communication.

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Sometimes they are called different 
languages.

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Sometimes they are called dialects of 
one language.

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So how do we decide which one they are?
Sometimes there's some disagreement 

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about which one a particular form of 
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Is it a dialect or is it a separate 
language?

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Putting them off into the future after 
you finish achieving this current goal 

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right now,
for example,

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getting really good at French in the 
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Beyond that,
you can see the next goal in front of 

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you,
which is to start learning Spanish or 

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whatever your language of interest.
Yes.