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Alford: Colonel Bogey (with Philip Jones Ensemble / Elgar Howarth, Elgar Howarth, Philip Jones Ensemble) by Greatest Hits Marches

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Duolingo in Apps

Nov 2, 2017

Duolingo

Education, Social Networking

8.4

(60 Ratings)

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Good for beginners

I used this app to keep up with my Spanish, but the sentences kept distracting me as they were rather hilarious. For some reason Duolingo is obsessed with animals, and so some phrases included "This duck is pretty" and "my cow likes the colour green". While it's good for beginners, it doesn't seem to explore grammar in detail and so I stopped using it after some time.

Fun, and well made - I wish they had other languages such as Arabic and Mandarin, but bizarrely they have Esperanto? Easy to use, and good for starters.

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) Jan 23, 2018

? My friend and I collect hilarious phrases from the app!

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Sasha (36 KP) Jan 24, 2018

For some reason it made all my animals into beer drinking alcoholics ? To this day the phrase that come into my head the most when I’m trying to remember Dutch is “De katten drinken bier”

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection in Books

Jul 27, 2017

Almost perfect selection

This would have received the full ten stars if it didn't include Margaret Thatcher and play down the anti-Semitism shown by Nancy Astor.

Absolutely brilliant otherwise, incredibly informative and interesting - and while I did think for a while there was a heavy influence from the Suffragette circle - I believe it was still well deserved. Hats off to Jenni Murray for bringing many of these hidden women to the forefront. And while there was a lack of women of colour, it seems to be the general standpoint for now that they too are invisible.