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Toca Tailor Fairy Tales

Education and Entertainment

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Design and style your own clothes! Time to get busy with those design skills! With Toca Tailor...

Toca Builders

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If you can imagine it you can build it with the six Toca Builders! Join your new builder friends on...

The Definitive Guide to Emergency Department Operational Improvement: Employing Lean Principles with Current Ed Best Practices to Create the No Wait Department

Jody Crane

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This revised and updated book explores the academics behind managing the complex service environment...

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Beethoven: The Creatures Of Prometheus, Op.43 - Overtura. Adagio - Allegro Molto Con Brio (with Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert Von Karajan, Herbert Von Karajan, The Berliner Philharmoniker) by Beethoven / Bpo / Von Karajan

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Connie (244 KP) rated Duolingo in Apps

May 31, 2018 (Updated Jun 8, 2018)

Duolingo

Education, Social Networking

8.4

(61 Ratings)

App Rating

Easy to use (3 more)

Has spoken activities

Gets creative when making sentences

Has a competitive scoreboard

Can reuse sentences multiple times (0 more)

I have been using Duolingo for years, and I find the app to be both fun and informative. I love the way it is set up, though sometimes I have a hard time switching back and forth between languages.

I appreciate the ability to skip sections of content via taking a test--this allowed me to save tremendous time when refreshing my Spanish. I was able to skip a series of lessons quickly and movw on to more challenging content, and even content I have never had the opportunity to learn!

I also appreciate that there is a spoken component with this app. Not only do you need to be able to type what you hear, you need to be able to speak what you see with a reasonable accent. I can't roll my tongue, but I can still pass any of the tests and hear corrections.

I also enjoy the opportunity to "compete" with my friends. We regularly check in with each other and it's a lot of fun to try and stay at the top of the heap. I would love to see the inclusion of challenges, where you could compete directly instead of just in overall points.

One thing I don't care for much is that the sentences, while creative, certainly don't always make sense. A cat eating an elephant or my aunt being faster than a dog doeisn't make much sense to me. Additionally, I sometimes see the same sentence 6 times in a lesson, which means there isn't enough content.

All in all, though, I appreciate Duolingo and plan to keep using it for some time to come!

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Sheridan (209 KP) rated Minecraft in Video Games

Sep 11, 2018

Minecraft

2017 | Action

8.3

(58 Ratings)

Video Game Rating

Create your own world (2 more)

Relaxing and fun

Lots of Mods to expand your play

Complex if you want to advance (0 more)

Bought for my daughter, played by me.

I told my partner time and time again, we shouldn't buy this game, because it doesn't end and I'll play it all the time lol I wasn't wrong. I really do adore this game it's a lot of fun, especially in Survival Mode. There's so much to explore and the aquatic part is breathtaking. So far I've got two houses and an underwater monument base and I don't see it stopping there. I will eventually build a house in each biome, I think. The terrible graphics holds its own nostalgic charm for me and it's mostly easy to play. Brewing and Enchanting is a lot of work and there are so many steps I feel like I've always got to have Google open on my phone to figure out how to do it. Using experience points to mend and enchant is super annoying because the more advanced your item the most xp points you use to fix it. I currently have an awesome iron pick with several good enchantments on it but I can't use it because otherwise it will break and it costs 33 xp to fix. Another annoying point that gets me is some things that are drops are useless to the player (magma rock, zombie flesh for example) it would be nice to have some use for these items at some point. My 8 yr old can only play in creative mode or on peaceful in survival otherwise she continuously dies and gets super frustrated with it so unless your kids are seasoned xbox gamers I probably wouldn't start them on this. Personally, apart from a few annoying features I love the game. It's creative, relaxing and fun.