Yes!, You’re correct, thanks for catching that
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Ciao Polpo! Thank you’re for your great course and your never ending improvements. One request: Could you take a little more care concerning possible alternative word orders? For an example: Sa dirmi perche? could also be Mi sa dire perche?, at least I think so. Having some alts here would be very helpful.
Also, alternative answers with accents like con facilità get marked as wrong if you don’t type then in with accents - so you could consider adding them without accent or use a hidden alternative without the accent?
Best regards
Glupan
Hi Glupan!
Thanks for the message! Absolutely, I try to add as many hidden alternatives as I can. If you spot any that need an alternative feel free to post them here and I’ll happily update them.
Some entries can have hundreds and hundreds of possibile alternatives, so if there are any that I left out and you feel they need adding, just post them here. Thanks!
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Thank you Polpo! One alt i found:
Ci dobbiamo trovare -> Dobbiamo trovarci.
Ciao @Polpo_D
Level 7 - Era Ora
Avere un buon presentimento - to have a gut feeling
I think the english translation should be “to have a good feeling”
to have a gut feeling could be either “un buon presentimento” or “un brutto presentimento”
Dear @Polpo_D, would you consider making me a contributor for your course?
I’m asking for the possibility to add alternate answers in the not so rare cases where answers get marked wrong because of word order that would be actually possible.
I’m a thoroughgoing course creator myself and I would be very careful with my alternate answers, doing so only when I am absolutely sure.
Tanti saluti
glupan
New alts:
A quanto pare -> apparentemente
Non ci pensare neanche -> Non ci neanche pensare
thank you
@Polpo_D
Level 47 - You’ve added two new sentences, both of which contain “del altro” rather than “dell’altro”
Here’s two other things:
Level 1
Lo farò.= I will.
Other than all other items I’ve come across (I just started and have only gotten to L5) this ends with a period which is quite nasty.
Other than that: shouldn’t this translate to I will do it?
Level 5:
È troppo disturbo = Don’t go out of your way
Though this might be correct, I haven’t ever come across this. My suggestion would be to change this to:
Se non è troppo disturbo = If you don’t mind
Level 33:
Fa venire = It gives you, It causes
Che rimanga tra noi = Just between us
The above two are duplicates.
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Hi Polpo (@Polpo_D),
Are you still around?
I see the word-count has risen from 1100 to 3000 (and now includes “Advanced”). Well done.
Are you able to address some of the issues that have cropped up in the last 28 months?
I stumbled on them as well. Should be dell’altro, not del altro, right? Not quite sure though.
I suppose @Polpo_D didn’t make you a contributor, right? He seems to have disappeared, so I might attempt to become a contributor to fix things, I’ve come across quite a few more in the meantime …
No, I don’t think he disappeared, he has been always very consistently working on his courses, maybe he is in summer vacation or busy at work, who knows.
It would be very helpful anyway if he accepted the help offered instead running it as a one man show, leaving errors uncorrected for months. I completely understand you @Polpo_D being careful with your amazing course, but maybe you reconsider accepting the help offered. It is just annoying to see the same little errors over and over again, without beeing able to do anything about it.
Well, I beg to differ - his last forum login was in July 2018 …
Yes, but he does work on his course every few weeks, if I am not mistaken. There are regularly added one or two new expressions to levels I had previously completed, you might check it yourself.
Have you ever tried the message-function to contact him? Might be worth trying.
Ah, well that’s a different story then, cool!
I haven’t noticed that yet, I’m only a few hundred words into the course.
I’ll do that, good idea!
Hey Olaf, any news from Polpo? Should we asked for becoming contributors? I think, there is a special thread for abandoned courses in the forum.
Well, I followed him right now, and he has been learning this week. So he’s not gone, he just doesn’t care about this forum, I suppose…
Well, he obviously didn’t answer to my PM here, so he might have turned off all notifications.
Applying as contributors without his explicit consent wouldn’t work due to his activity on Memrise.
Yes, that’s right. We could try and ask Memrise to send him an email. I’ll do that and edit this post to include the link to that thread later.