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Zama

Antonio di Benedetto and Esther Allen

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First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern...

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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Duolingo in Apps

Nov 2, 2017

Duolingo

Education, Social Networking

8.4

(61 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 (1703 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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LilyLovesIndie (123 KP) rated Toro! Toro! in Books

Nov 5, 2018

This was a set text for a University module and I have to say, if it hadn't been for that I probably wouldn't have finished it. I found it to be much below the usual standard of Morpurgo, severely lacking in any kind of gripping factor to make people want to read on. This could just be me, but the plot was flimsy, needed much more 'background' on the Spanish Civil War and generally, something a lot more plausible than a boy who is essentially in love with the bull. Not something I would recommend or read again myself.