u/Cock--Robin

What the title says. As much as I enjoy the app's approach to learning Spanish, the lack of background explanations is frustrating. So I've been looking for something to augment Duo to fill in that gap, and I think I found it- and it's free.

Look for an app called Language Transfer. It's just a series of short lessons where a teacher walks a student through Spanish language rules.

I was trying to communicate to someone that something was "deep-fried", but "Frito profundo" doesn't sound correct to me. Is there a Spanish word or phrase that indicates that something is deep fried?

So for a couple of weeks now every time I finish a section in Duolingo (Spanish) the last exercise is 15 flashcards. However I noticed that I'm getting the same flashcards over and over and over again, for lessons I completed days or even weeks ago. I understand that they would want to throw in an old word every so often just to keep it refreshed in your mind, but wouldn't you think that the end of a section the flashcards would cover the words that you had in that section?

Methinks they have screwed something up. I should be getting words from the last section or two, not words from 5, six, 10, 15 sections ago

A couple of days ago I got an email from DS welcoming me to the premium version (I've been a member for months). And then today I got another email from DS recommending some video series that are supposed to be at my level - but they were super beginner level videos and I'm intermediate.

Did they lose some user data or reset something?

The subject says at all: sometimes I have to stop the video and quit the app before the video is complete, and when I come back I'm at the initial starting page - not the video I stopped. Is there a way to set up the DS app so that when I have to quit and come back it opens up where I left off?

I had to get up and deal with something this morning in the middle of a lesson. Is there a way to pause the rewardstimer if you have to get up and step away for a minute?

When I first moved to Clemson 30+ years ago June Bugs (aka emerald beetles) were everywhere. You'd walk across campus in the summer and it looked like the ground was undulating there were so many on the quad. Then a few years later they were gone. I went for years without seeing any.

Yesterday I noticed that I was getting a second crop from my brown fig tree, and I went to pick a few. The overripe ones were absolutely covered with June Bugs, the first ones that I had seen in almost a decade. Here's hoping they are making a comeback.

My wife and I will be celebrating our 40th anniversary next year, and we have always wanted to spend time in Mexico. I should probably add that when we first started planning such a trip my wife floated the idea of relocating to Mexico permanently. I don't know if she's serious, or if it's just a pipe dream. And, of course, I don't know how y'all would feel about having another couple of retired ex-pats coming to stay.

What we *think* we want to visit: a small town (maybe on the coast, maybe not) that is friendly to tourists in general, and folks from the US in particular, without being overrun with tourists (ex-pats would be okay). I've been learning Spanish this past year, but it would probably be best if I don't kid myself that I would become fluent enough in the next 8 months to really be able to get by solely in Spanish.

We're just looking to relax in an interesting place that would be something other than the typical tourist destination.

Thank you in advance for your help.

I'm relatively new to DS. I'm a CEFR level B1 in another language app but I'm not really sure what that means in DS since they don't track progress that way. In the beginning I decided to go through DS from super beginner on through, but that didn't last long as super beginner was way too easy. I'm currently working my way through the beginner, mostly because I don't want to miss important concepts that DS may build on later, but even beginner level is easier than the content I'm used to.

Those who have made their way from beginner to early intermediate in DS, is there any insight you could give me? Should I just power on through beginner, or is it ok to proceed to the easy end of the intermediate level?

Sardis has been closed for years, but they finally tore down the building today.

In the US the terms "Latino" and "Hispanic" are used interchangeably to refer to people who live in or are from south of the US border. In a recent post in another sub I used the word "Hispanic" to refer to Argentinians, which engendered something of a flame war in the comments. Apparently there is a segment of the world's population who insist that "Hispanic" strictly refers to the Spanish.

A lot of unpleasant things were directed at me personally (arrogant anglo was about the nicest thing said) as if I was personally responsible for US English. (There was also a extensive discussion from Argentinians who insisted that they were in fact Hispanic.)

So here's my question: knowing that not pissing people off on the internet in a fool's errand, I still would like to use the terminology that the people who I'm referring to prefers. So how do people who live south of the US border refer to themselves collectively?

I was just told that the Wall of Beer on Pendleton Road is closing.

I just spent over 20 minutes struggling to get through a “review” section in my Spanish course that presented me entirely new nouns, entirely new verbs, entirely new, conjugations, and completely new concepts. I finally had to nope out and skip it, it was impossible to complete at my current level of understanding.

Hopefully not TMI … my RALP was just over a year ago and today was the first day since then that I didn’t need TriMix to “perform”. Woo!

When Duolingo gives you a word with multiple meanings to translate, is there a way to determine which meaning they’re looking for? I’ve been getting the English word “square” to translate, and it seems that no matter how I translate it I’ve guessed the wrong meaning. If I say “cuadrado” it’s looking for “plaza”, and vice versa.