French new course

Je vuex plus! J’ai besoin de beaucoup plus!
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I’m probably being greedy, I’ve two completed French courses to practice from now.

Although, as I’m going to Spain in August I thought I might tackle the Spanish course next.

I’ve not done any for the best part of a decade so it’ll be interesting to see how much comes back quickly or even instantly.

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Can’t you just move to France now? :wink:

It’s probably a good thing for us to have a test case for adding the extra content - it’s meant to be ‘click and add’ easy, but tech has a way of surprising us :slight_smile:

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I will be super interested to hear about the Spanish. My expectation would be that you’ll be mostly reactivated inside the first five hours or so…

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I’ve just hit 8 hours on the Spanish (the weather has inspired me ) and the stuff that was covered in the original lessons feels very familiar. Like opening your emails after a holiday or pulling the Xmas decorations out of the loft. Lots of “of course” and “ah I remember that”. The grammar too comes straight back, verb and adjective endings are familiar so understanding the difference between toda, todo and todos is already ingrained.

There’s enough new words that the course feels fresh, I don’t think frecuenemente (sp?) was in the old course. If I’m stumbling over a phrase it’s because of the new stuff.

My biggest challenge is when I’m not concentrating or getting a little tired, French words slip in. Biento sounds more Spanish than French to me!

I’ve also discovered that my nextdoor neighbour speaks fluent French and Spanish and is more than happy to provide practice so I’m hoping by August I’ll be showing off my language skills in restaurants.

One small bug I spotted. When introducing “And : Y” the Spanish is saying the name of the letter Y: “Y greiga” rather than the sound “ee”.

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You’re going to be a serious polyglot before too long. See you at the Polyglot Gathering next year? :grin:
Gracias for the Y bug - yes, we’ve noticed that already and it’s been fixed for the next release.

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Delighted to hear that - I thought it would be fast for you :slight_smile:

Come over to Gwynedd some time for some French and Spanish practice! (although I may spring some Welsh on you as well :joy: ).

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Visions of my brain running out my ears as it goes into meltdown as I try mutating French idioms with Spanish verb endings :laughing:

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All too much fun :joy:

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Hi Aran, I’m cracking on with the French and just got to the Brown-black belt. I’m dabbling with Croatian, Danish and Hungarian on the browser too - really happy to get back into these languages and start with Hungarian.
However, back to French, at the end of thre previous brown-white(!) level on old French course, the app now doesn’t leave a space to speak and stops after the small chunk of learning meaning you need to click the arrow to move on. I guess this is a glitch. Any chance it can be fixed?
Cofion, Chris

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Bonjour @ChrisTaylor ! Are you using an iOS device by any chance? A recent iOS update caused an issue in the sound encoding of the app, but the Tech Team are working on it and hoping to have it fixed very soon.

In the meantime, if you use the web browser version - https://app.saysomethingin.com - you should be fine.

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As Deborah says - if you’re on iOS, that’s been the main fun and games we’ve been having this last week! We really hope the fix will be in and robust very soon indeed (but sorry for the headaches in the interim). :slight_smile:

Hi Deborah,
Thanks for this. That’s worked a treat.
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Chris

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The update has gone through for the mobile apps as well now - the latest is v2.0.11, so check in the app stores if you don’t have that one.

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Another similar case which I don’t think I’ve seen above: early on, the female voice says “comment apprendre” with English intonation (it’s quite funny, though…).

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Merci Robin! Found and fixed!

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