Language Fixes for New Courses

Anything you catch in the new test app at www.saysomethingin.app - hiccups of any linguistic kind - please drop them in here so that we can put them carefully on top of the trembling mountain of fixes on Kai’s desk… :wink:

If it’s an app behaviour issue rather than a language fix, then we’d be delighted to hear from you in the bug report thread:

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In the Ukrainian course, somewhere in the green belt, почуваюся and почувати are introduced as “I feel (state)” if I recall correctly.

I think “about a month” etc are introduced as близько місяць but I think it should be приблизно місяць

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Armenian Orange 5-7% ish

“Because”: first prompt after learning asks “because I want to”, but gives model for “because”. Returns to expected behaviour afterwards (2nd prompt is for “because”, and gives “because” models, 3rd prompt is for “because i want to” and models give “because I want to”.)

“I want to speak with people” prompt is answered by “I want to learn with people” models

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Brilliant, thank you both - passed on! :folded_hands: :partying_face:

I’m not an expert, but right at the start of the Greek course it seems as though the distinction between habitual and occasional, “μιλάω” vs. “μιλήσω”, requires some care. This may clarify in due course, but the initial choices seem potentially misleading.
While it’s context dependent, at least for me “I want to speak Greek with you now” seems more likely to be occasional - compared to “I want to speak Greek with you from now on” if you were trying to be less ambiguous in English. “I want to speak Greek” seems more of a 50/50, but FWIW DeepL goes for “μιλήσω” here too, unless I use the “…from now on” qualification or similar framing.

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Thank you - yeah, this kind of stuff is super tricky to catch - but it does always get a bit clearer over time from the extra context, in due course… but I’ll flag this up for the catchers/fixers! :slight_smile: :folded_hands: