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And no typos allowed or you start from zero! Because as everyone nows, real native speakers never make typos
by barrell 4y ago
And no typos allowed or you start from zero!
Because as everyone nows, real native speakers never make typos
- meatmanek 4y agoI fell off the Duolingo bandwagon a while ago, but the SRS app that I still use (Tsurukame) lets you mark an answer as correct if you make a mistake; it's super handy. I imagine Duolingo doesn't let you do this because of its gamification -- people would just cheat their way to the top of the leaderboards. On SRS apps where the only goal is learning the content, the only person who you harm by being dishonest is yourself.
- barrell 4y agoI don't know Tsurukame but iKnow.jp had the same functionality and it was game changing for me! Immediately any SRS without became unusable
- b3orn 4y agoDuolingo gives you a pass on a lot of typos, but it's somewhat inconsistent, probably the only consistent one is diacritics. I'm learning French and sometimes you get a cloze with two options, for example gendered adjectives, let's say petit and petite and no matter which one you choose it's marked as correct, because the wrong one will be detected as a typo, but as I said, this is an extremely inconsistent behaviour and you never know if something will be detected as a typo.
- LorenPechtel 4y agoWhile I don't know the innards of it I suspect the typos are preprogrammed. Note what frequently gets marked wrong and have a human decide if it's a wrong word or a typo. You could also do a string distance comparison--if it's distance from the right answer is 1 but it's at least two from any wrong answer it's probably a typo.
- watwut 4y agoduolingo is fairly permissive with typos