Duolingo Progress with spotlight on Norwegian

  I am making progress with Ukrainian, Norwegian, and Finnish with a higher accuracy in Korean

Can you recognise any words that I learned?

Can you translate any of these words to English or your target language?

 My grandmother's grandfather was Norwegian and he migrated to Australia.  I first tried to learn when my cousins came over from Norway, but found Duolingo as an adult much more accessible to go step by step.  My kind relative tried to show me the alphabet which was really interesting as a ten year old.  But there was no other resources available for self-learning once she left.

Norwegian -	Katten spiser musen,

Part of speech	Translation
	English - The cat ate the mouse.

 Reflection: Katten and musen both show how both the noun and the definite article are combined into one word. In my experience verbs in Norwegian are not conjugated.  But I also wonder if they show tense and if not how is it indicated to the listener or reader.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - mouse German - Maus Danish - mus Dutch - muis Swedish- mus Norwegian - mus Yiddish -מויז moyz Italiano - topo  Francais - Souris Romanian-mouse Haitian Creole - sourit Esperanto - muso Latin-mus Welsh - llygoden Irish - luchóg Scottish Gaelic - luchag Zulu - igundane Hawaiian - iole Swahili-panya Czech - myš Hungarian-egér Polish-mysz Ukranian-миша mysha Turkidh Turk-fare Indonesian - mouse Japanese-ねずみ Nezumi Korean -생쥐 saengjwi Hindi -चूहा chooha Vietnamese- con chuột Greek- ποντίκι pontíki Russian мышь mysh'

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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.

Hungarian - A magyar  tanár bent van, az angol diák pedig kint.

Part of speech holo	Translation
	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 Deutsch- d Danish Dansk- og Dutch Nederalnds- en Swedish Svenska- och Norwegian Norsk bokmål - og Italian Italiano - e  French Francais - et Romanian Română-și Haitian Creole kreyol ayisyen- epi Esperanto - kaj Latin-et Welsh Cymraeg- a Irish Gaeilge- agus Scottish Gaelic Gaeilge- agus Zulu isisZulu- futhi Hawaiian ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi- a Swahili Kiswahili-na Czech čeština- a Hungarian Magyar-és Polish Polski-oraz Turk Türk-ve Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia - dan Japanese 日本Ni hon-とTo Korean 한국어 hangug-eo 그리고 geuligo Hindi हिन्दी hindee तथा tathaYiddish יידיש eydish און aun Ukranian українська ukrayinsʹka-і i Vietnamese Tiếng Việt-và 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 Indonesia- kakek 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 Việt- ông nội Greek Ελληνικά Elliniká- παππούς pappoús Russian Русский Russkiy дедушка dedushka

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