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@Lorgar

Gotham city police batman

Glasses like some woman in Adam West Batman

Gotham is in Louisiana when I always thought it was in New York

@yukiame

If you remove animal fat and fiber from high protein foods sometimes the processed food is better for people who exercise a lot but have trouble eating enough protein

Except I would not trust animal products because of mRNA so called vaccines

@Gonzo17

Israeli
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ISIS

@Gonzo17

Do they actually put the guy with the horse in the picture on the original news article

And they are like just accept it Indian people are going to immigrate and do their ancient tradition of doing that thing with horses in your country

@Stahesh @eris

So regarding the borrowed words from English in Duolongo I assume they teach that at the start because they think it will be easier and make native English speakers more comfortable with the Korean alphabet

But as you get into later units a lower percent of the vocabularly is borrowed from English

And Duolingo is not the only teaching material that starts with borrowed words

@Stahesh @eris

Unless a black person or white person was born in Korea and grew up there they are probably not the best to listen to if you want to know what Korean sounds like without a foreign accent and for the class that is going to be entirely in Korean language they could have picked any of the Koreans living in Korea to teach but they picked a black person

@Stahesh @eris

There is a free class from cyber university of korea which starts with a speaker teaching in English and Korean and I think they do not have a Korean native speaker speak it the way he talks I think maybe his parents were Korean but he grew up in the United States and then at a certain point they switched to lessons being entirely in Korean without having covered all the basic grammar points that they should do first.

And they have a black person talking in only Korean

@Stahesh @eris

guppy like the how you say the fish called guppy in English is either photocopies or coffee

A lot of words spelled with a K sound when transliterated into English letters sometimes sound like a G sound in Korean

When they say KimChi it seems to be like approxinately half the time I hear Gimchi and the other half I hear Kimchi and from the same person

@Stahesh

Also Indonesian uses English letters and is in closer to English word order than Korean

Indonesian might be an easier language for beginners than Korean on Duolingo

I do not know because I had more Korean experience so I could get farther in Korean but Indonesian looks like it would be simpler to me if I had no exoerience in either language

@Stahesh

So because the Korean alphabet is easier I would work on it first instead of all three at once

I would do Korean practice before German and Spanish because you already are closer to knowing their alohabets since they are almost the same as English

Once you have the Korean alphabet memorized you can reduce time on it and just maintain it and then pick another language to focus on

Or do not do Korean, Arabic or Japanese at all until you completed the courses in the easier languages

@Stahesh

I mean require if you want to learn faster and to be able to write without a computer

@Stahesh

So to summarize it learning Korean and Arabic Alphabets require writing in a notebook the letters combined with other letters in addition to duolingo and putting in a lot of time up front until the alphabet is learned compared to English letter languages

@Stahesh

I have some typos where I hit one ketter off I assume you can figure it out

@Stahesh

Korean has an alphabetical order for the consonants learn it and write them in that order in the notebook until you can write in alphabeticak order without a guide

Next you can do that with Arabic or Japanese Alphabets but not the Japanese Pictograms

And switch between all three until you do not forget when you switch back to the previousv language

Arabic writing practice has to be done in a special way because the letter changes shape based on whers it is in a word

@Stahesh

I would suggest that Korean is easier than Japanese and Arabic

Do not even study Japanese or Arabic until you learn the Korean Alphabet

Just take a notebook and write each consonant paired with each of the simple vowels

Do not even use Duolingo to learn it other than to remember the sounds

After you can write all the consonants from memory paired with simple vowels without looking at something else

Then you have memorized the alphabet for the first time & you can switch languages

@Stahesh

You have to spend all or none commitment with Korean, Japanese and Arabic

You can skip around with German and Soanish because you know the English Alphabet