Native Korean Speedruns Duolingo Korean (but it gets heated)

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Hi can we be friends 🙈

Or “The baby’s cucumber” and “The fox’s cucumber” 😟

I can skip a few lesson because I've learn a bit korean long ago. The first weird sentences I got from my level is The baby bites the snake. I was so confused, I gave it few minutes to read it again and again to make sure I didnt missunderstand the sentence. And turns out duolingo does make weird nonsense sentences.

Oh, yeah, I'm the same way. I may not be able to say hello and thank you in Korean, but I can say cucumber, fox, or Chicago. Very usefull, hahaha :D

@@Mirrored33 fox's cucumber rather sounds sus💀

와 우이!?!? 😂😂

The fly is not in the sugar either

how do you say it

@@Anna-tm6yn La farfalla non è nel burro

Thats correct

Nice, my dumbass can say "Una mela" 🤪

lmaoooo me too😂

I hope you didn't forget about the fox's apartment key and cucumber milk 😂

@@christinarader7275 lmao

@@christinarader7275 HAHAHHAHAH 여우의 아파트 키, 오이 우유 😭

@@valdrse at this point, seeing 우유 and 오이 is just ✨traumatizing✨ 😂

*the beginning of an anime villain*

@@noof2892 No, it's the first half of a trash isekai title. Probably ends with 'which caused me to be reborn in another world where she's apparently the Demon Queen.

@@RpiesSPIES makes perfect sense

What

My goofy ahh mother stabbed me in the back with longhorn steakhouse knife

Girl fr. That’s what I’ve been doing for the last few weeks like give it up Duolingo gosh🤨

Right? 😂😂😂

It was bec of this why i answered "the woman's milk went to the company" and didn't think it was wrong 😆

I've learnt the importance of commas as it made me learn "child, milk"

@@bom141 deadass 😂 I’ve learned “baby’s cucumber” 😭

Omg if that happened that would be so funny!
A bunch of bots and people who use Google translate to make the app arguing with a native speaker would kill me

They are not wrong they are just not normally what you would say😂

They argue with natives all the time. I corrected them on my language and had them argue with me. Legit don't know what they're doing

@@Halo.fi_161you do realize that native Koreans made the course right?

@@Frost75k i'm assuming the questions are generated using AI, so there's definitely going to be some incorrect sentences

Would you not recommend it for learning Korean or would it be better to learn alone

@@holyparz7095 the best way to learn a language is by practicing with other people (preferably native speakers) so i wouldn't necessarily recommend studying alone all the time unless it's for reading/writing purposes

I reported everytime I knew I was just as right as the answer it gave 😡😅

I’ve found this with a lot of the apps I’ve tried …I wish they would really break down the sentences more and show us more in depth

@@holyparz7095 I think it’s best to use as many different resources as possible such as, books, apps and places like KRplus and Instagram

I felt this. As a math teacher with a Master's some of the stuff we cover and how we are to present it is like wtf. I ignore some of that stuff honestly to not deal with parents so much because sometimes common sense should prevail.

@@filth_nasty its good to know that even the math teachers know how dumb the curriculum is pfft.

YES. You described it perfectly

*common core be like:*

"Is this a triangle? If so, how do you know?"
Bruh, just fucking look at it!

wo ching hao yo bing chilling

lmfao

네 , 저 도 한국어를 베웁니다 sorry if theres a mistake

@@enlightoa um....why sorry??

@@PramanCoolGames
GUNS, OIL, FREEDOM, AND OBESITY
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Somehow I'm left with 'You could make a comedy routine out of these.'
"Yes, teachers teach...No matter how much the politicians try to stop us."
"Yes, potato chips are made of potato....most of the time."
"Yes, my dog is dog...Even after that mess with the hyena."

They meant that the word "economic" means "about the economy". Still very oddly worded!

The grassy, green grass

The damp towel is damp, dont use it

Yes my milk is cucumber.

Pickle Rick's milk before Pickle Rick was pickled? ;p
But, yeah, Duolingo does a lot of their silliest phrases solely as a means toward grammatical structure, like possessives for that set.

Literally I'm learning Korean rn and these phrases are always coming (and I'm tired of seeing and hearing these phrases Every single day)😅

same omg wtf is that. 😭

everytime i type cucumber in my phone it always suggests milk after

@@ChaoticGoodThings …… what? How… ??? I don’t know what school you’ve been taught at but I’ve never been taught like that in the US, lol. 😂 All the phrases used makes sense and were actual logical sentences…

90% ofanguages work like that including Hindi, English is just weird

The grammar is also wrong it’s das not der

@@peachyskeleton7484 ah ok 👍

Hallo

Das ist zu lustig

Dude sometimes I feel like they themselves don't know the particular language😭

Now I'm interested in learning Hungarian but first i gotta finish Japanese + Russian lololol

I gave up on the Hungarian course after I got "The telephone is in the house in the afternoon"
Why would that be a recurring event?

Do you remember the actual sentence? I’m Hungarian and I’d love to know lol 😂

bro😭😭😭😭

Perhaps you could contact the Duolingo team and tell them that some sentences/phrases are not native or would sound weird if used in real life. Perhaps they'll get back to you for input on how to improve the course for others! :)

Wow, I’ve been waiting for the day they added Haitian Creole on Duolingo!! Im beginner level from learning on my own, I’m glad I saw this comment, tfs 💖

Yeah, that's something I like about Duolingo, even with its faults. I've been learning Japanese via it and while I'm learning a lot and enjoying it in the year and a half I've been doing it, even I've noticed mistakes in it or really weird grammar, which my friends and I love to send to each other. I'll never forget the first time I got "sumimasen, watashi wa ringo desu" (excuse me, I am an apple).

@@SomeOfTheJuice Apparently "excuse me, I'm an apple" is something Duo uses in a lot of the language courses, as like a funny/cute thing. But certainly not a practical one

Any tips for someone working on learning Haitian Creole? I'm working through those lessons along with Yiddish.

That's why I think it's best to learn a language from a native speaker. It can be both an actual person or watching tv shows with that language.
I've learned a lot from watching for e.g Japanese shows and movies in the original language with subtitles and also watching language learning videos on KRplus by native Japanese people. Talking to a native speaker where they can help you with the pronunciations and grammar

Do you mean the Fulham Boys?

If you look into the English test that Korean students take, it actually has nothing to do with the English at all. The Korean students taking that exam also don't know a majority of those English words, they just know how to take that exam. That exam is virtually the exact same every single year with a few phrases mixed around. The students don't need to know English, they rather just need to memorize the questions and be able to quickly answer them. It's like being given the answer key to a test prior to the test, all you have to do it memorize the answers and you never really have to read a question. Obviously that is a simplified version of the exam, but I would encourage you to look into it, it is a super weird thing they do in Korea.

ahh korean englishman!

Learning English anywhere other than countries that ACTUALLY speak the language can get a bit uncanny at times. The Korean way, that I've heard at least is the most obvious example of what NOT to do when you're teaching English to aspiring students.

bruh just google translate

I always do it when learning a new language. after some time i ended up with. laptop - polish, server - english. pc - russian, phone - korean ;)

wow, I had changed my changed my siri lang to korean to check something and forgot and then started maps and it started giving directions in korean. Haha. I changed it back then.

​@@polanski2399 if you don't know the language and it has a different alphabet in Korean it is insanely difficult to just do that its a terrifying experience (I accidentally put my phone in Chinese once, thought it was gone forever lol)

Lol the only reason I know the word for hydrogen is 水素 is because of all the Detective Conan I used to watch.

When did you do the course? Because I had almost the same outcome as you and none of these sentences occurred, not even remotely. Maybe they updated it? I heard the Korean course got an update recently, so maybe the Japanese one as well?

@@evaundele123 I did it about a month ago, so pretty recent I'd say. It also goes down to unit 6 unlike Korean (as shown)

@@Himlichkun Hmh, okay, weird. I also started Duolingo about a month ago, so I suppose it should be the same version

@@evaundele123 that's strange. I may be confusing unit 6 questions with the test though. I went straight to the 6th checkpoint to unlock everything after I was placed in unit 1 lol.
Still though, some of the questions in the placement test were pretty tough on mine. A couple proverbs and decently strange sentences

If the Korean sentence use "아기" then "baby" is right. It would have to be "아이" to be "child". I think they use weird but logically valid sentences to keep your interest and get you to focus also on the syntax such as 에서 vs 에게.

what sources do you use?

Can u tell me Ur source

@@bubblesgirl5163 I quite like TalkToMeInKorean range of textbooks and video material.

just by watching this video i can tell duolingo teaches a lot of useless vocab, you'd be much better off finding another resource

honestly if you set aside like a day to learn Hangul, it is much easier than you would thing, i legit picked it up in like two days just by repeating the structure and thr characters non stop

it honestly does lmfao. my teacher uses it for french (i’m in the highest level of french i can take at my school) and sometimes i’m so confused on what it’s trying to say. One time I remember I hadn’t practiced for so long that Duolingo emailed me saying something along the lines of I get that you hate me because you’re not practicing anymore so I’m just going to leave you alone and I was flabbergasted how could an owl do this to me gaslight me like this😭

"That owl looks murderous" Lol, the best description ever

@@KayUncut That's hilarious 😭 a manipulative owl

@@KayUncut I thought you said your French teacher used Hangul? I might just be slow

What do u mean?

?????

JAPANESE OR NO KNEES

oh no😨🍋🍋

have you contacted Menchetti & Sons? Thanks to them I won $150,000 for all the damage that Duolingo has caused to me and my family

Haha same, I'm not a native English speaker, but the Korean course was not available in French... I get so mad when I make such stupid mistakes and lose lifes over things like " Pittsburgh" (why do we even need to learn these random towns name in Korean anyway huh)

right, nobody even spells it doughnut anymore, I forgot that was even a real spelling.

weird. That's the British spelling, if I remember correctly. But also doughnut is super clunky so most people just use donut.
(America had printing presses or smth pay by the letter, so there are a number of words where the American spelling is shorter. Color vs colour, estrogen vs oestrogen, traveled vs travelled, stuff like that. I think it was both printing presses and telegraphs.)
Funnily enough, I had "donut" and all of the other British spellings get flagged as wrong. Weird b/c I feel like that's the only one that pretty much all English speakers agree on.

Both have been correct for as long as i used it (maybe a few months)

i just realized, when i spell doughnut, i go to this version, but when i think of it, i think donut

he did 2days* ago actually, it’s here : krplus.net/bidio/gZF6dXOshZqsqoY

yeah i kinda hate they switched up the course half way and had checkpoints for subjects i didn't do and i'd never seen the words

@@taehofu omg exactly what is here/there fr

Seems like something you would say watching Vincenzo 🤣

@@NaturalAegyo ehh vincenzo has more s t y l e

@@rickpervez322 The tailor literally was stabbing ppl with his scissors! ✂️

Duolingo was not made to teach Korean that would be the problem lol, its focused on teaching English to other languages, in the Spanish to English lessons there are 198 courses

To be fair, if you’re ever in a situation where you need to tell someone not to eat the baby, you’ll be INCREDIBLY glad you learned it.

@@flynns5807 that's true 🤣

Wait, so you're not an apple? Are you sure?

@@cristinacrespomorillo6082 until you asked me I was. Now I'm not. What if I am an apple?

I already know how to read some Korean words, and write them!

👁️👄👁️

is this a widely used thing in korea? do people in SK know that others calculate age differently because i had no idea until recently that this was a thing it’s so interesting haha

ok

@oi oi Yes I wrote in the video that Koreans still use “Western age” for legal documents, etc.

You can cheese your way into being older

i’m learning russian and some of the first words they taught me are sushi, taxi, and mashed potatoes. so specific. like, maybe i should learn how to introduce myself first??

@@alexmun7391 Nah because the restaurant workers and taxi drivers don't need to know your name! Eating and getting to safety is more important than building bonds with other people!

@@alexmun7391 it's basic words to get your vocabs started... that's the whole point lmao
then it ramps up to simple sentences and sentence structures

I alr knew Duolingo wasn’t teaching me what natives speak so I looked up some Chinese slang, stuff like that to replace the formal and unnecessary words Duolingo teaches

@@alexmun7391 I started taking Korean on duolingo and the first word they taught me was cauldron ☠️ “가마”

VOUCH

They meant that the word "economic" means "about the economy". Still very oddly worded!

forgets to mention the regional differences in Irish as well. As of now the course uses a lot of Ulster grammar rules and they have only the one voice (who i also reckon is from Ulster). Speaking of grammar, doesn't really explain it well enough, the only reason I'm able to get so far is because I'm from Ireland and had the education system teaching.

@@estrand6043 Yeah I had actually typed a whole bit about how it doesn’t explain lenition and it’s inconsistency /complete lack of any details whatsoever with sentences involving the word Teastaíonn vs like an “an bhfuil an t-airgead uait?” Type sentence, but decided to keep my comment short haha.

@@estrand6043 they do that with welsh, it uses like “rydw i” a lot when here you’d say “dw i”
the context used is written/regional

@@roseclouds5838 Does it use sentences you'd never use in real life too? People/language programs prioritize sentences like "The blue girl jumped across a mountain" and then wonder why they can't ask a stranger for a directions after a year and a half of learning haha

@@aguy4247 it just sounds weird and google translated

“But she is underage and this is america.”

“Don’t call saul, call her mother.”

Well, I kind of get why they're being insistently pedantic on the use and non-use of 正在, but such a quality doesn't consistently show across its lessons. Like, why is "What is your name?" 「你叫什么名字？」? 「叫」 is not the same verb as "is".

Yep I have experienced the same while studying German for eg Ich bin kellner literally translates to I am waiter but duo insists to use I am 'a'waiter. I have lost many hearts due to this

​@@adweetiyamohapatra7326 likely because "I am waiter" is not correct in English

There must have been a special tomato then😂

I had that one😂🫂

That means the tomato is beautiful not attractive!

@@HyHwua beautiful is actually 아름답다. 매력있다 is closer to attractive/charming.

The tomato must've turned red after hearing that😭💀

bruh I'm also an english/russian bilingual and was literally just thinking that, freaky

Do it for the content

im fluent in russian/german/english did that once in a mobile app maybe drops or busuu and started to check out russian for fun.. i rage quit after 10 min when thay claimed that (the people = Strana) when its NAROD, i filled in a bug report and deleted the app

@@RedGunBullets they claimed WhAT?? well then, i'm prepared to translate banan = strawberry

Hey fellow English/Russian bilinguals

i am by all means not fluent in Spanish but i am learning it and i think the reason why it’s incorrect with “vosotros” is because it’s typically only used in Spain (correct me if i’m wrong) and duo lingo is probably teaching Spanish from south and central American countries

@@eliana_rj It's a good guess, you're right that duolingo teaches hispano american spanish and I thought that I would get answers flagged incorrect because I answers in Spain's Spanish but nope it actually is pretty good at accepting spain answers too. And in the "vosotros" thing I looked at comments and people that had used "ustedes" had the same issue. Which makes it even more frustating because it's made to accept a variety of answers, so they could easily change it to accept right answers they are flagging incorrect at the moment.

I'm a non native speaker but tried duolingo to see where it would place me from the initial test. It spent 20 minutes asking me very basic questions for translation and then gave up trying to make me get any wrong and decided I must be '40% fluent' whatever tf that means.
I guess I'm used to having to deal with exams that assess Spanish in a really irritating and innaccurate way.

@@alexjames7144 I only really found the problems I mentioned when I started taking the tests for the most advanced levels. I got to level 4 or 5 without much trouble, maybe I could have advanced a few more levels if I hadn't decided to jump ahead. Though I have to admit that I'm a bit jealous that it placed you so far ahead with the initial test because I only skipped ahead 1 level with that. Might be because I got a question wrong because I was going too fast and misread something or made a typo.

@@paulopezbotella7216 I think I'm just used to sitting tests in Spanish and seeing the kind of phrases they use to make it ambiguous and trip people up. But I did note they didn't get particularly difficult at any point and this was about 2 years ago

That’s really interesting to see how different people perceive the same language differently. I’m a native korean speaker who speaks english and french and I find french to be just as simple in pronunciation (compared to english, where pronunciation is irregular) and I find writing in french to be feel more natural

@@minjosof wow, that's really interesting!! honestly, french made so little sense to me as a kid that i skipped the methods teachers use to teach children how to read and memorized every word i came across's pronounciation, meaning and spelling instead of learning the pronounciation of syllables. in a way that probably benefited me because i taught myself how to read and despite how weird my method was, it worked, so the school let me pass the year where they typically teach children phonetics & reading and i could skip a school year 😭😭😭 i would've never managed to learn how to read my native language if i didn't create my own method. maybe it just depends on the person's brain, and someone will naturally be more proficient in a certain writing system?

@@nathanscore yeah, maybe! I was actually also never really taught to read in english or korean, I taught myself at a young age and it’s beyond me how I learned to read😭 I learned french later on, when I was in school but wasn’t really taught to read either, just figured it out after a while. Learning in a structured way can sometimes be more confusing, I 100% agree!

The languages I have formal experience learning are Spanish, Korean, and French
By far Korean is where I have gotten the farthest, in large part for the same reasons you mentioned
I really like the simpler methods of conjugation in Korean that does not change based on the I/you/we/you all/they(singular)/they(plural) system.
Of course in Korean words can change based on honorifics and there are a bunch of different verb endings which is a different kind of complicated, but I think it's easier to remember, or at least more interesting (and English conjugations are the worst of them all lol)
And as a native English speaker I had a really hard time wrapping my head around gender in Spanish and French. Like I understood that it's just a fact of the languages which I had to accept, but the seemingly arbitrary reasons for a parking lot being a masculine or feminine noun really threw me off and made it hard to remember.
Korean reduces the redundancy of things like subject-verb agreement with their conjugation and grammatical gender-less system
Redundancy in language can be useful, but it makes it harder to learn imo

@@nathanscore iirc learning to recognize whole words as blocks, rather than being by syllables, is how many people with dyslexia default to reading. iirc, reading that way is slower, since you look up blocks of words in a massive archive in your brain (which is impressive as fuck), rather than spelling it out.
What's it like when you read Korean? Do you read the words as blocks, or as syllables?
I am not qualified in this field at all, so take my comment with a massive pile of salt. But if I recall everything correctly, it could be possible that you have some amount of dyslexia, and it hasn't been noticed cause your smarts has masked it. It might be bullocks, but I thought I'd let you know, in case it ended up being a useful lead

Duolingo is mostly made up of volunteers, to be completely fair.

@@yurukiiOWO , that explains a lot, including how they can offer the app for free.

Yeah it's definitely a work in progress. It is understandable that a free app doesn't have the resources to make everything perfect, but it is appreciated that they put in at least some effort to help people around the world learn a little about other languages. I think a big way Duolingo could improve is by providing an opportunity for people on the app to actually communicate with each other for a little collaboration.

fr I speak german and I wanted to try german duolingo and I was getting so mad because of HOW WRONG IT WOULD BE like ITS GERMAN its not that hard 😭

@@kendalchen yeah. improvements are made over time to courses by the same volunteers, and from what i remember years ago they'd send out notices that they're looking for volunteers who's native language is the language they need.
the sentence structure is weird because they're likely trying to tackle multiple things at once.
i used to learn japanese on there years ago, and after i was done with their course i just went to watch j-dramas to figure out actual sentence structure. then i went on to listening to news broadcasts, etc. it's good for foundations but that's it.

10:45 oh you actually did it 😂😂😂 good job 👏

Hi

I tried to start from the alphabet through Duolingo. My native friend took one listen to their mispronunciation of every vowel and laughed.

@@creativereader6033 Totally understand and agree! I started with KRplus for studying pronunciation so I could hear native speakers for utmost accuracy, so when I started with Duolingo later on, I was like HUUUUHHH. Drove me crazy!

Muy clave, Duolingo no lo veo tan útil para idiomas asiáticos

@@creativereader6033 they mispronounce the letters?

10+-year online language trainer here. It's so frustrating; Duolingo clearly has excellent marketing and everybody mentions them and I just want to say "MAYBE use them as flashcards," but if they can't even get the pronunciation right I think I will adjust my response when a friend or a learner says they're using Duolingo. I think basically they're the logical conclusion of the old "Teach Yourself" books with the cassette or the CD, only you get more multimedia stuff. I tell people always use a teacher/trainer, and if you can't afford one, find a language exchange partner or a speaking group online.

As a native spanish speaker duolingo isnt to great for spanish. it might just be because duolingo teaches spain spanish and i speak colombian spanish, but there are some weird sentences and words that they teach that would definitely get some laughs in south america

@@kiwii5463 I mean, I know (I'm Honduran). That's why I said decent. These two languages are the ones that pass the most in this app, and still, I have NEVER recommended Duolingo for anything other than bypassing paying the much more expensive TOEFL and IELTs tests. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Well, I'd say it's very important to identify and NOT eat green bread

I'm learning Swedish on Duolingo atm. Thanks for the heads up about it being unreliable as a pronunciation guide, I had my suspicions 🥲

That's really sad but hilarious at the same time. I have a feeling you've given up entirely on learning Hebrew, but if you still want the sounds, here they are:
א = a
ב = b
ג = g
ד = d
ה = h
ו = v
ז = z
ח = hard h sound, ch
ט = t
י = y
כ = k/ch
ל = l
מ = m
נ = n
ס = s
ע = a(same as א, but there's a nuance only Israelis can hear)
פ = p/f
צ = tz
ק = k
ר = r(like the hard h, it's a guttural sound)
ש = sh
ת = t

THIS! I get so pissed when I understand what the Japanese phrase meant and then it rejects the English translation I gave it despite it meaning the exact same thing as the "correct" answer that shows up