Duolingo Bulgarian

Hey, thanks a lot for putting together this course! Would love to see it at duolingo at some point, but this is just as good :slight_smile:

However, it’s a bit frustrating learning false words, so as pointed out above by Renyana and Gironimo220, it would be great if you could fix those, and also mark instances of you with singular or plural(/polite).

In Level 9 ‘Food 1’:
Пят - They drink --> should be ‘Пият’ instead.
Ядете пиле - They are eating chicken --> should be ‘Ядат пиле’ or ‘You (pl.) are eating chicken’

Level 10 ‘Animals 1’:
Риба - A dog --> should be ‘A fish’ instead

I didn’t get further in the course so far, nor can I be sure that I would catch all issues, but @Quadrate wrote they found 40 already.
Would be great if Memrise offered an option to give feedback on a word directly, instead of using this forum this way, but hope it gets seen and fixed.
Really appreciating your work, @TseDanyloXD мерси!

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I have sent a message and an email to the course creator requesting to be added as a contributor as I have noticed some mistakes.

Additionally @mary_platt is interested in adding some audio. Hopefully we will hear back from @TseDanyloXD and we can both be added as contributors soon!

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The errors, inconsistencies (e.g., whether or not the pronoun is included) and ambiguities (e.g., whether “you” is singular or plural, formal vs. informal) make this course frustrating and counterproductive. Most of these are easy fixes, but only if the creators provide access to active contributors who have the time to respond to problems as they are identified.

It’s so tragic that such a beautiful and thoughtfully crafted course is flawed and going unmaintained.

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I am generally enjoying the Memrise app. However, these errors persist, two years later. Is Memrise reading this feedback? Is there somewhere else where we can post these corrections for action by the developers? For a paid subscription, I would expect more. I may not continue my paid subscription if these items are not corrected. Благодаря

I just logged in here because I noticed the Ядете пиле problem spot.

I figured I’d add my voice in solidarity.

Thanks for posting this.

I’ve gone ahead in the desktop interface and asked Memrise to “ignore” these cards so that I don’t have to confuse myself with them.

I was really disappointed that only the first few levels had audio…and even those clips weren’t always right, “The boys” and “The girls” have the same audio (momichetata).

Will there be any changes to this course regarding the mistakes and lack of audio? I don’t think I can continue without sound clips… they are so helpful when memorizing for the long term. (Even after a long break, I remembered loads of phrases in Turkish because of listening to the audio so many times when I was practicing and also repeating it…)

I will take a look at the other Bulgarian courses on Memrise until then…

Искате ли помощ? Има много правописни и др. грешки в курса.