royal
What is this with the #French calling the #Belgians "belge" without even capitalizing it? Is that a slight? @kris any idea here?
Or is #Duolingo off its rocker again?
#français #languageLearning
Mar 1 at 9:43pmWeb
Show threadDaniel JohnsonMar 1
@royal @kris I’m not sure in this particular case, but different languages have different capitalization rules. In Spanish, for instance, you do not capitalize days of the week, nor months of the year.
Show threadroyalMar 1

@ossobuffo @kris I was thinking the French capitalize Anglais, Mexicain, etc. I must be imagining it. The more I think about it, I probably am.

I blame the little green owl, who has not been so trustworthy lately.

Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)Mar 1
@royal @kris Languages and nationalities are not capitalized in French (or any other language besides English I have learned so far)
Show threadroyalMar 1
@GreenSkyOverMe @kris Must have been my imagination!
Show threadPatrick O'BeirneMar 1

@royal @kris
French capitalises the noun but not the adjective:

Les Français aiment le fromage.

Mon voisin est français.

Show threadroyalMar 2
@PatrickOBeirne @kris I think the errors I've recently seen in AI Duolingo led me to distrust anything it's teaching me.
Show threadKrisMar 8

@royal @PatrickOBeirne

I try duolingo to learn russian language

You cannot learn a language just with clicking. You need to talk to listen more than little sentences et you need to write even by hand.

My conclusion . the most hard in this language is alphabet but everybody say alphabet is easy.

Why it is hard for me and easy for everybody

Because I never write and I have only a keyboard with latin alphabet.

Show threadKrisMar 8

@PatrickOBeirne @royal

French is too complicated. Personnaly I never write like that
Les francais aiment le fromage. I would not put Capital letter at Français but I know maybe I am wrong.

I put Capital letter at the begining of sentence and proper noon.

My tendency is to avoid capital letters. Because of smartphone keyboard