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@Stahesh

The problem is they will mark sentences wrong If you do not use the correct choice of "a", "an", "the", "this", "that", "those" or "these" but Duolingo does not understand that translation correctly and it is really annoying

You sometimes can not tell if a word is singular or plural without a number but duolingo makes you choose a singular or plural version of the word

So it makes you select a lot of very specific English translation choices where the translation is ambiguous

@Stahesh

The problems with the grammar are going to be the same no matter which dialect

The pronouns do not have gender in Korean

There are no words that translate as "a", "an", or "the" in Korean

Words that Duolingo translates as "this", "that", "a", "the", "those", "these" are misunderstood because they have special meanings that have to do with the location of objects that can not easily be translated to a single English word

@Stahesh

So for Korean there are different dialects in South Korea but there is a official standard dialect

Some of the compound vowels used to be pronounced different but in the standard dialect there are multiple compound vowels that make the same sound

The problem with Duolingo is not the dialects but the grammar

@Stahesh

He seems to think the definition is different from what I said but it is still different than the way duolingo uses words based on spelling variants of these types of words

Some of my previous comments about Y, G and J location words might have been wrong but Duolingo is also wrong

I maintain that I am correct to the best of my knowledge about the other points however

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzg8p8eaWRc

Here, (Over)There in Korean Explained Clearly!

Korean Ryan

@Stahesh

Picture with Korean words and English explanation from first video link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKvhEZIWttU

Picture of other related Korean words similar to what I called

Y, G and J in second video link

There are a whole class of words with variant spellings on these used on Duolingo with slightly different spellings and meanings that I believe Duolingo gets wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzg8p8eaWRc

@Stahesh

He confirms my point that the words are based on the location of the object in three categories

1 Near the speaker

2 Near the listener

3 Far away from the speaker and the listener

Duolingo does not seem to understand this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKvhEZIWttU

This, That in Korean Explained Clearly!

Korean Ryan

@Stahesh
I would still say overall the Korean is very good

The entire first unit is in very honorific style for talking to someone older than you

You can also take a class for Korean people learning English

If you take this class then you will still learn Korean as they have you translate English sentences into Korean and Korean sentences into English

But It is in a tone like the tone a Parent uses to speak to a child

They do not use a neutral tone between two people of the same age so far

@Stahesh

You can mark a word as plural in Korean

But there is no way to mark a word as singular in Korean without using the number 1

Any word without a plural marking and without a number could be either singular or plural when translated from Korean into English

Regarding Gender

The pronoun that translates from Korean into English as He can also translate into English as She

Same with ambiguity as to him or her when translating

The gender is unknown and not specified in Korean

@Stahesh

In Korean instead of

this, that and those

There are three kinds of words

Y words
A word meaning the object is near the speaker

G words
A word meaning the object is near the listener

J words
A word meaning the object is far away from both the speaker and the listener

Y
A location near the speaker

G
A location near the listener

J
A location far away from both the speaker and the listener

@Stahesh

Just so you know in the Korean on Duolingo which I believe is one of the languages you listed that you studied

It does not get the following correct

The use of the following English words

"a"
"an"
"the"
"this"
"those"
"these"
"that"

It gets wrong

singular vs plural

It gets wrong

masculine and feminine

In korean

There is no Equivelent to the English words, "A" "An or "The" in Korean

There is no way to mark words as singular

Pronouns have no gender

@Scubbie

Alex Jones said he was married to guest speaker who is also supposed to be male

@Indignation

The Baal Shem Tov, the 18th century founder of Hasidic Judaism, notes in his ethical testament, Tzavaat HaRivash, that the swaying in prayer is similar and connected to the act of copulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuckling

https://imgflip.com/gif/8x4gyh

@Gonzo17

Why did he do that