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  1. My Drops #streak is unbroken for the month of March! Yes technically it’s a 1388-day streak overall, but usually my monthly calendar has a green lighting bolt on one or two (or 3 or 4) of the days, meaning I used a “streak rescue.” #languageDrops #languageLearning

  2. My Drops #streak is unbroken for the month of March! Yes technically it’s a 1388-day streak overall, but usually my monthly calendar has a green lighting bolt on one or two (or 3 or 4) of the days, meaning I used a “streak rescue.” #languageDrops #languageLearning

  3. “I've been learning with Drops for 1000 days.” #languageDrops #streak

  4. “I've been learning with Drops for 1000 days.” #languageDrops #streak

  5. It’s strange that Drops has a September challenge which I completed by doing a lesson a day in October, but I won’t complain, I love these #challenge #badges ! #languageDrops

  6. It’s strange that Drops has a September challenge which I completed by doing a lesson a day in October, but I won’t complain, I love these #challenge #badges ! #languageDrops

  7. I used the term “ʻĀina Pākē” in my Hawaiian class and kumu said that is fine if you want to say “the land of the Chinese” but if you want to say “China” the name of the country is “Kina.” #languageDrops has taught me “ʻĀina Pākē” while #uTalk teaches “Kina” — l just lost another unit of trust in Drops :blobcatangery: #ŌleloHawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #hawaiʻi #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii

  8. I used the term “ʻĀina Pākē” in my Hawaiian class and kumu said that is fine if you want to say “the land of the Chinese” but if you want to say “China” the name of the country is “Kina.” #languageDrops has taught me “ʻĀina Pākē” while #uTalk teaches “Kina” — l just lost another unit of trust in Drops :blobcatangery: #ŌleloHawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #hawaiʻi #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii

  9. In Hawaiian there’s also rules about whether to use “ka” or “ke” for “the,” and similarly there are exceptions. For example since “ʻeke” starts with the letter ʻokina, it ought to use “ka” but it actually uses “ke” instead. It would be nice if Drops also was able to help drill the correct article to use in Hawaiian! (3/3)
    #drops #languageDrops
    #hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #teabag

  10. In Hawaiian there’s also rules about whether to use “ka” or “ke” for “the,” and similarly there are exceptions. For example since “ʻeke” starts with the letter ʻokina, it ought to use “ka” but it actually uses “ke” instead. It would be nice if Drops also was able to help drill the correct article to use in Hawaiian! (3/3)
    #drops #languageDrops
    #hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #teabag

  11. In Spanish there are exceptions to the rule of thumb that if it ends in the letter “o”, it uses “el”, for example, it’s “la mano” not “el mano.”
    #drops #languageDrops
    #hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #hand

  12. In Spanish there are exceptions to the rule of thumb that if it ends in the letter “o”, it uses “el”, for example, it’s “la mano” not “el mano.”
    #drops #languageDrops
    #hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #hand

  13. I started the Spanish course in Drops and noticed that it includes the definite article with each noun, for example “el pan” (literally, “the bread”). This is helpful for the language learner because in Spanish “the” depends on the “gender” of the noun. However, the Hawaiian course doesn’t show the associated definite article.
    #drops #languageDrops
    #hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #bread

  14. I started the Spanish course in Drops and noticed that it includes the definite article with each noun, for example “el pan” (literally, “the bread”). This is helpful for the language learner because in Spanish “the” depends on the “gender” of the noun. However, the Hawaiian course doesn’t show the associated definite article.
    #drops #languageDrops
    #hawaiianLanguage #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #spanish #bread

  15. Doh! :blobcatohno: I guess Ice Cubes only lets me add alt-text to one image?!?! I had to delete one of the images in the parent post, here it is with glorious alt-text. #icecubesapp #alttext #languagedrops

  16. Doh! :blobcatohno: I guess Ice Cubes only lets me add alt-text to one image?!?! I had to delete one of the images in the parent post, here it is with glorious alt-text. #icecubesapp #alttext #languagedrops

  17. Exciting news, yesterday the Drops app added a new feature, Language Voyage exercises. This path gives more challenging lessons with the existing vocabulary offerings. Also adds listening exercises on the matching page. Fun! A little buggy: the paint buckets that represent colors, don’t have color… if they show two buckets, you have a 50-50 chance of success, which is quite sub-optimal given they’ve introduced Duolingo-style “hearts” into this path :blobcatpat: #languageDrops #duolingo

  18. Exciting news, yesterday the Drops app added a new feature, Language Voyage exercises. This path gives more challenging lessons with the existing vocabulary offerings. Also adds listening exercises on the matching page. Fun! A little buggy: the paint buckets that represent colors, don’t have color… if they show two buckets, you have a 50-50 chance of success, which is quite sub-optimal given they’ve introduced Duolingo-style “hearts” into this path :blobcatpat: #languageDrops #duolingo

  19. About a month ago I posted that I had 1,390 Hawaiian words in Drops, but now it says 1,389. I am now making backwards progress LOL. What I think happened is that I flagged a word with an incorrect spelling, and so it automatically removed that word from my list? #drops #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
    #languageDrops

  20. About a month ago I posted that I had 1,390 Hawaiian words in Drops, but now it says 1,389. I am now making backwards progress LOL. What I think happened is that I flagged a word with an incorrect spelling, and so it automatically removed that word from my list? #drops #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
    #languageDrops

  21. I don’t have any more words to learn in the Drops Hawaiian course, so I guess they currently have 1,390 words in the course! #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
    #languageDrops

  22. I don’t have any more words to learn in the Drops Hawaiian course, so I guess they currently have 1,390 words in the course! #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
    #languageDrops

  23. Aloha mai kākou! As far as I know, there are only three language learning programs that feature #Hawaiian: Duolingo, Drops and uTalk. Does anyone know of any others? #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii #duolingo #uTalk #hawaiianLanguage
    #languageDrops

  24. Aloha mai kākou! As far as I know, there are only three language learning programs that feature #Hawaiian: Duolingo, Drops and uTalk. Does anyone know of any others? #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii #duolingo #uTalk #hawaiianLanguage
    #languageDrops

  25. Nā ʻaʻahu apau == wardrobe, as in your collection of clothing. There’s a different phrase for wardrobe as a piece of furniture, which is keʻena waihona ʻaʻahu. The #Drops vocabulary building app has a cartoon of the furniture to go with the phase for your clothing collection. I just noticed this morning that the #Hawaiian phrase glosses as “all the clothes” and I got suspicious… a quick trip to Wehewehe confirmed it. #languageDrops
    #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian

  26. …and the #quiz #answer — fingerprint, murder and lawyer are the best 3 choices; parrot, strawberry and hamburger are not. #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii #languageDrops

  27. …and the #quiz #answer — fingerprint, murder and lawyer are the best 3 choices; parrot, strawberry and hamburger are not. #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii #languageDrops

  28. Here’s an actual #quiz question screenshot: “What is often needed for a good #murderMystery?” with instructions to pick 3 of the 6 #Hawaiian words listed. #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii #languageDrops

  29. Here’s an actual #quiz question screenshot: “What is often needed for a good #murderMystery?” with instructions to pick 3 of the 6 #Hawaiian words listed. #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii #languageDrops

  30. Here’s screenshot! It asks you questions and gives you an assortment of words in the target language to select as a response. It’s a little more difficult than the usual picture-matching drills so it makes a great learning tool. #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii #languageDrops

  31. Here’s screenshot! It asks you questions and gives you an assortment of words in the target language to select as a response. It’s a little more difficult than the usual picture-matching drills so it makes a great learning tool. #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii #languageDrops

  32. Yippee! The #Hawaiian unit in (#languageLearning app) Drops just got upgraded with their groovy “quiz” feature that the other languages have had for a while. I love it! :ablobcatheart: #languageDrops dropsapp.page.link/a7GT

  33. Yippee! The #Hawaiian unit in (#languageLearning app) Drops just got upgraded with their groovy “quiz” feature that the other languages have had for a while. I love it! :ablobcatheart: #languageDrops dropsapp.page.link/a7GT

  34. Here’s the before and after #languageDrops #glyphs for a couple of #Hawaii’s #volcanoes, #Kilauea and #MaunaLoa. A brightly colored state flag has been added, and the shapes of the mountains have changed quite a bit.

  35. Here’s the before and after #languageDrops #glyphs for #kukui — the #candlenut. Nice improvement over the original, with shading and the #botanical style cutaway showing the double nut inside.

  36. Here’s the before and after #languageDrops #glyphs for #Kalua #Pig — this one is great improvement, the original could be any kind of sloppy sandwich, while the new one is specifically shredded pork.

  37. Excitement at #languageDrops, they dropped a bunch of picture updates in the #Hawaiian #language course! A month ago I grabbed some screenshots like the one below of the #humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa and I would like to share side by side with the updated versions! The humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa picture is hardly different at all, but some of the other ones are much improved.

    From: @moani
    ohai.social/@moani/11010191964

  38. #languageDrops has “pou kuhi ʻaoʻao” for “direction post” which is probably a better description of the photo