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DODUOLINGO: Learn a language for free (and win PRIZES!)
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Posted: Sat, 09/04/2016 20:01 (8 Years ago)
WELCOME TO DODUOLINGO!
If you've stumbled across this thread, there's a pretty good chance that you're currently incredibly bored. Maybe you've just finished interacting with everyone online and are reading through the forums looking for something else to do. Or maybe you're just browsing the forums while waiting for an auction to end. Maybe you're a new user and are just looking for some fan clubs to join, or maybe you just happened to randomly run across the thread in my "About Me" section. In any case, I have something that you may be interested in doing: learning a completely new language!
Now, you may be thinking, "Why would I want to learn a language?" Well, for starters, fluency in multiple languages is a useful skill. Learning languages is productive and can be fun, and is overall a good use of your time. I understand if you don't want to spend so much effort and time doing something unnecessary and unexciting, but honestly, if you're on this thread right now, you most likely have nothing better to do.
Or maybe you're wondering "How am I supposed to learn a language at home on my computer?" Well, many of you have probably already realized this based on the (horrible pun in the) title: using the popular language-learning app Duolingo! It's fun, (debatably) easy, and free, and it's a great way to spend those extra minutes of boredom that you have right now. Duolingo will not bring you to a completely fluent level, but it does teach a good amount of material to beginners. So why not try?
Also, many of you may be thinking "If I wanted to learn a language, I could've learned it on my own. Why create a thread for this?" My answer to that question: I will be giving out PRIZES to you! Some people have always dreamed of learning a language, but have lacked the motive. Well, I'm here to provide that push for you! I will provide some prizes for successfully learning, and those prizes are listed below.
Now here are a few rules:
1. The language that you are learning cannot be your native language. Although I don't really care that much about what I own on this site and wouldn't really be too angry about giving away free prizes, I only intend to give prizes away to people who are actually trying to learn something new. Also, I will be tracking your progress, so I will be able to see if you skip ahead to the end of the course directly after starting.
2. Preferably, the language being learned should be something completely new for you. However, it would be OK if you used the website to continue learning a language that you know very little of.
3. Please do not be rude. I understand that some of you will be keen to undermine my authority here due to the fact that I can't speak many languages myself, but please respect the fact that I am the one who will be giving out prizes here and that I can make up the rules. If you can't respect that, you can go learn a language yourself.
4. All other PokeHeroes rules apply. Have fun!
Here is how you can join my little "club":
Step 1: Create a new account on Duolingo if you haven't already. Pick a language to learn. The languages offered for English speakers are Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Irish, Turkish, Russian, Danish, Norwegian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Polish, and Welsh. In the near future, there will also be courses for Vietnamese, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Czech, and Romanian if you're interested in learning those. There are also upcoming courses for Swahili, Hindi, Klingon (yay), Korean, and Indonesian, but those won't be here for a while.
Step 2: Join the classroom here.
Step 3: Fill in this form and post it below:
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I want to learn a new language!
Username: _______________
Native Language: ______________
Other Languages Currently Spoken: ____________
Language That I Want To Learn: _____________
Preferred Prize: _____________
Have you joined the classroom yet? Y/N
Anything else?
Step 4: Learn the language! I trust you to be honest with me and assume that you won't lie about your current ability to speak it. Besides, I'll be tracking your progress (occasionally), and if you seem to be moving unnaturally fast (or finish a course in 2 weeks or less), I won't give you as many prizes.
Step 5: Occasionally, I will post an activity check, where I will ask you to fill me in on basically how your language has been going and how you're liking Duolingo. Format may differ from time to time, so see the individual posts for instructions on how to respond to these.
Here are the prizes you can choose from:
2. Another shiny/special Pokemon - look through my boxes and see if there's anything you'd like there. Don't ask for anything that would be worth more than around 150-200k though, because I will not give that to you. This can also only be obtained after finishing or making good progress in a course.
3. 10-20 PD for each experience point you get in Duolingo. Shoot me a PalPad message or a PM every time you want to withdraw your "balance". I will send the money as soon as possible. However, if you practice the same basic skill over and over again to get large amounts of experience points quickly, I will stop awarding you with PD.
4. Nothing :). I'll just learn a language for the fun of it!
Members of Our Duolingo Group:
1. Popplio - Norwegian - Doduo --- Semi-Active
2. Quinn - French - Doduo --- Semi-Active
3. DarkParkai - Spanish - Doduo --- Inactive
4. awesomegokul - German - Doduo --- Inactive
5. poland0202 - German - Doduo --- Semi-Active
6. Viki123 - Italian - Any --- Semi-Active
7. Aristocraft - French - Doduo --- Inactive
8. ImmatureGuy - French/German - Any --- Inactive
9. Litten - German - Doduo --- Inactive
10. Rogue_Of_Heart - Norwegian - Doduo --- Inactive
11. Skitty - Italian - Shiny --- Active
So yeah, that's all I have to say here! I understand that many of you are probably interested in learning Japanese (being Pokemon fans), but unfortunately, that's not offered on Duolingo. Sorry about that :/...
Also, you can offer to be a prize provider if you feel like it. It might take a while for me to obtain so many Doduos, so it would be useful if some people were to help me with my hunting. I can pay you for each Doduo you provide, or if you'd rather, you can provide them for free. You can apply using the form below:
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I want to hunt Doduo for you!
Username: ______________
Price per Doduo: ____________
Will you also be learning a language? Y/N
Anything else?
Hunters:
1. Me (of course)
2. smerp (?) - 150k PD
3. zagisov - Free!
I'd prefer to limit the size of this group to underneath 20 people, although a few more wouldn't hurt. However, I'm not really expecting that many more people to actually sign up, as I already have 12 members and my thread is beginning to lose attention.
Happy language learning!
Posted: Sun, 10/04/2016 16:10 (8 Years ago)
Username: Zagisov
Native Language: English
Other Languages Currently Spoken: None
Language That I Want To Learn: Spanish
Preferred Prize: Doduo
Quote from smerp
"My second Pokemon is a BIDOOF?!? Really? A BIDOOF?!?! Yuck, what a pathetic waste of a Pokemon... I'm releasing it."
Posted: Sun, 10/04/2016 16:26 (8 Years ago)
Posted: Sun, 10/04/2016 16:32 (8 Years ago)
Username: -Kei
Native Language: Malay
Other Languages Currently Spoken: English,a little bit of Japanese and Arabics.
Language That I Want To Learn: German
Preferred Prize: sh. Doduo
Anything else?:-
Now, I'd say that's a task well taken care of! Uh… were you expecting something more?
Posted: Sun, 10/04/2016 16:39 (8 Years ago)
Username: CelebiFTW
Native Language: Danish
Other Languages Currently Spoken: A bit Swedish, English.
Language That I Want To Learn: Norwegain (I have to learn it, we are almost neighbours)
Preferred Prize: Doduo
Anything else? Im proud of that you can learn Danish. Don't know why.
Posted: Sun, 10/04/2016 17:44 (8 Years ago)
Posted: Sun, 10/04/2016 17:48 (8 Years ago)
Username: Monochrome
Native Language: English
Other Languages Currently spoken: Spanish
Language I Want To Learn: German
Preferred Prize: 10-20 PD
Anything Else?: None~
”Hello There! I am Alter Ego, your technological guide!"
Posted: Sun, 10/04/2016 17:52 (8 Years ago)
By the way, I created an assignment in the classroom: to get 50 XP by April 23. You can ignore this if you want to, but it shouldn't be too hard to accomplish. Good luck with your learning!
In case you haven't already, make sure to join the classroom at this link so that I can track your progress and give you prizes. Thank you again for joining my little club!
I just edited my main post to include a new section about providing Doduos. Also, I added a new line to the sign-up form to make sure that people join the classroom that I have set up. However, you do not have to change your posts to reflect the changes in the form if you have posted already. Feel free to take a look!
Posted: Mon, 11/04/2016 01:32 (8 Years ago)
Username: smerp
Native Language: English
Other Languages Currently Spoken: some Spanish
Language That I Want To Learn: I've always wanted to learn Ukrainian (my grandfather was born there) OwO
Preferred Prize: I'm not sure yet, can I decide later? I'm new here and don't really know the value of things yet.
Have you joined the classroom yet? Yes
Anything else? If you give me the resources necessary I can hunt for shiny Doduos for you. You would need to teach me how though.
Posted: Mon, 11/04/2016 01:58 (8 Years ago)
Wow, this is a much larger turn-up than I was ever expecting! I seriously thought that not a single person would join.
Posted: Wed, 13/04/2016 14:41 (8 Years ago)
~I want to learn a new language!
Username: Quinn
Native Language: Portuguese
Other Languages Currently Spoken: English and a bit of Spanish
Language That I Want To Learn: French
Preferred Prize: Doduo
Have you joined the classroom yet? Yep
Anything else? -
Posted: Wed, 13/04/2016 14:51 (8 Years ago)
Username: DarkZorua
Native Language: English
Other Languages Currently Spoken: English, French
Language That I Want To Learn: Spanish
Preferred Prize: Doduo
Have you joined the classroom yet? Y
Anything else? Thanks so much! I forgot I had an account!
Posted: Wed, 13/04/2016 17:47 (8 Years ago)
Username:awesomegokul
Native Language:Tamil
Other Languages Currently Spoken: Telugu,Hindi and English
Language That I Want To Learn:German
Preferred Prize: Doduo
Have you joined the classroom yet? Yes
Anything else?
Posted: Wed, 13/04/2016 23:51 (8 Years ago)
I will add all of you to the list.
2 more spaces left until I reach my (temporary) capacity! I didn't expect to get anywhere near this point...
Posted: Thu, 14/04/2016 02:23 (8 Years ago)
Username: poland0202
Native Language: English
Other Languages Currently Spoken: Polish
Language That I Want To Learn: German (and French but I'll work on that another time)
Preferred Prize: Doduo
Have you joined the classroom yet? Yup
Anything else?
Posted: Thu, 14/04/2016 19:54 (8 Years ago)
Posted: Thu, 14/04/2016 19:59 (8 Years ago)
Username: pastelpookivil (to be changed to Nymphiramii soon)
Native Language: English
Other Languages Currently Spoken:
Language That I Want To Learn: French!
Preferred Prize: 1 or 2 ovo
Have you joined the classroom yet? One second, lemme do that too XD
Anything else?: nope uvu
Posted: Thu, 14/04/2016 20:03 (8 Years ago)
Posted: Thu, 14/04/2016 20:05 (8 Years ago)
The Lost Darling
Posted: Thu, 14/04/2016 20:07 (8 Years ago)