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Nov 8, 2022

Duolingo Progress with Hungarian & Ukrainian

 Spotlight on Hungarian



I have been enjoying working on Hungarian. It has occasional accents and I am still learning the influence of the accents on pronunciation.
Part of speech holoTranslation
English - The Hungarian teacher is inside and the English teacher in outside.


 Reflection: az, what ia nice, simple, short word for 'and'.


   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 
English - uand German DeutschDanish Danskog Dutch Nederalnds- en Swedish Svenska- och Norwegian Norsk bokmål - og Italian Italiano - e  French Francais - et Romanian Română-și Haitian Creole kreyol ayisyenepi Esperanto - kaj Latin-et Welsh Cymraega Irish Gaeilgeagus Scottish Gaelic Gaeilgeagus Zulu isisZulufuthi Hawaiian ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi- a Swahili Kiswahili-na Czech češtinaa Hungarian Magyar-és Polish Polski-oraz Turk Türk-ve Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia dan Japanese 日本Ni hon-To Korean 한국어 hangug-eo 그리고 geuligo Hindi हिन्दी hindee तथा tathaYiddish יידיש eydish און aun Ukranian українська ukrayinsʹka-і i Vietnamese Tiếng Việt- Greek Ελληνικά Elliniká- και kai Russian Русский Russkiy а такж a takzhe

   Spotlight on Ukranian


I am interested in learning Ukrainian since it has been on the news as Russians invaded Ukraine and Ukrainians had to evacuate.  I am really impressed that Duolingo has ensured that all Ukrainian learners do not add to Duolingo's profits.  They are adamant to not profit due to international conflict and war. It is details like this that make me happy to support Duolingo as ga paid subscriber when they have a humanitarian to make languages universally available to all and free.

Ukrainian - де дідусь  de didusʹ
English - Where is grandfather?

 Reflection: де the first part is "Where is"  , дідусь he second part is grandfather? I wonder why дід is missing the ending усь in the Duolingo example.


   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 
English - grandfather German - Deutsch - Großvater Danish Dansk- bedstefar Dutch Nederalands- opa Swedish Svedska- opa Norwegian Norsk Bookmål- opa Italian Italiano - nonno  French Français - grand-père Romanian Română-bunicul Haitian Creole kreyol ayisyen - granpapa Esperanto - avo Latin-avus Welsh  Cymraeg- taid Irish Gaeilge - seanathair Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig na h-Alba - seanair Zulu -isisZulu umkhulu Hawaiian ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi - kupunakāne Swahili Kiswahili -babu Czech čeština - dědeček Hungarian Magyar-nagyapa Polish-Polski Dziadek Turkish Türk -Büyük baba Indonesian Bahasa Indonesiakakek Japanese-日本Ni hon おじいさん Ojīsan Korean 한국어 hangug-eo 할아버지 hal-abeoji Hindi हिन्दी hindee -दादा daadaYiddish יידיש eydish- זיידע zeyde Ukranian українська ukrayinsʹka-дідусьdidusʹ Vietnamese Tiếng Việtông nội Greek Ελληνικά Elliniká- παππούς pappoús Russian Русский Russkiy дедушка dedushka

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