r/DuolingoItalian

Ciao Tutti,

Has anyone else suddenly had the podcast/listening lessons completely change?

It used to be that one of the characters (Lilly, Lucy, Falstaff etc) have a podcast type lesson. The host introduces the premise and you listen to a Italian conversation and answer questions. The "host" would speak English and the Italian conversations were spoken slowly.

I've just tried one today and the entire lesson is now in Italian and is spoken so fast I can't keep up. I literally have no idea what the answers are because I can only pick out a few words from their monologue length conversations. If I could understand the language at that speed, I wouldn't need Duolingo to begin with!

I'm going to have to skip these lessons from now on because there's no way I can learn anything at that speed.

Duolingo, SLOW IT DOWN!

Hey 👋 I know some of you are experiencing issues with rollout of the above, but those who are collecting avatars: have any of you got your own country (that is if your country participates in FIFA) yet? I have a sneaky suspicion that our friends at Duolingo won’t allocate our own country, just to force us into buying it instead. In ZAR it’s 40 bucks (ridiculous) and I’ve collected a good few, no South Africa in sight. Wondering if anyone can alleviate my (childish) fears 😂 Molto grazie, ciao tutti 😘

I'm currently doing section 3, chapter 4, and I will forever remember "riso" meaning "rice", since I've seen it as a reminder exercise in virtually every preceding chapter.

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Meanwhile, there are lots of words that almost never get repeated.

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That's something that definitely needs fixing.