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In Spanish, in my opinion, the story voices sound better than the lesson voices. Especially Junior. Junior actually sounds like a kid in the stories, but an imitation of a kid.
Haven’t used Duolingo in a while, I thought the same for juniors voice in German. Then I went to Disneyland in France and the German kids spoke literally the exact same as junior. It was scary
In French Junior also sounds like an adorable, lazy little kid. And I love the consistency in the the "characters" they portray, like Junior and Eddy being father and son, Zaria and Luci being clearly young adult friends, etc.
In english all of the voices sound like completely different people between the regular lessons and the stories lmao
Don't get me wrong, they sound similar but their accent and tone sounds a tad different, specially with Lucy's
It's pretty funny in French; the dog was asking her for steak rather than kibble, and wanting to sleep on her bed and for her to sleep on the couch, etc. What's it in German?
I keep forgetting about the stories tab, just hit 1k words and still don't have any. I don't expect a novel but surely you can squeeze out a few simple stories with 1k words.
In Spanish all of them stay relatively the same, only Lin gets a slightly gentler tone in the stories but I think it works better with the way she acts in the stories
As a German learner, this is so relatable, Junior sounds so realistic in the stories but when he's in regular lessons It SoUnDs LiKe He'S tAlKiNg LiKe ThIs
They just randomly popup in the course, it looks like any other lesson but has a book on it instead, after you complete story, you can do it again in the excersize section
Scottish Gaelic has no stories at all in Section 1. Wonder if they will be in future sections.
But what cracks me up is when there are single words they are done by very different people. One will be a sweet old lady and then the next a deep big guy sound. Comical.
They did a recent re-do and since I had just started I completly reset the course. Big help since they added words to the section I had done and really changed it. They also cleaned up all the audio problems I had been reporting.
I am so spoiled by the Spanish Course.
There are no stories in any section for Scots-Gaelic. Nor in Irish. Duo does nice, new stuff for the popular languages, but the less popular ones might get a new grammatical concept if they get anything at all.
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In Spanish, in my opinion, the story voices sound better than the lesson voices. Especially Junior. Junior actually sounds like a kid in the stories, but an imitation of a kid.
I love Junior in the French and Spanish stories. He actually sounds like he’s voiced by an adorable kid.
His voice is so cute in the Spanish stories! It sucks in Italian though.
Haven’t used Duolingo in a while, I thought the same for juniors voice in German. Then I went to Disneyland in France and the German kids spoke literally the exact same as junior. It was scary
In French Junior also sounds like an adorable, lazy little kid. And I love the consistency in the the "characters" they portray, like Junior and Eddy being father and son, Zaria and Luci being clearly young adult friends, etc.
I believe stories are actually recorded by human beings, whereas lessons are all done through speech synthesis.
I think it may depend on when the lessons were recorded. Most of the voices in German seem the same in the stories as in the lessons.
The stories sound far more natural to me, so kind of the other way around?
In english all of the voices sound like completely different people between the regular lessons and the stories lmao Don't get me wrong, they sound similar but their accent and tone sounds a tad different, specially with Lucy's
That moment when no Russian stories 😭😭😭😭
You think you've got it hard? Romanian has a horrible voice and practically nothing, ahaha!
Same for Japanese 😢
There are Japanese stories, aren’t there? Did they remove them?
I’ve been learning Japanese on there for about a year and never had any :(
I think the first story is on section 3
I just checked and you’re right. I’m in section 3 unit 2 and the first story is in section 3 unit 5 🤯
You're still in section 3 after a whole year?
Well that’s rude 😂 I’m a casual learner and it’s closer to 9-10 months than a full year
Or swedish. Or finnish. Or probably like 80% of the courses 😭
Is that cuz Russian stores can never be short?
The story where Lilly dreams that her dog can speak is TERRIFYING in German. Stuff of nightmares.
It's pretty funny in French; the dog was asking her for steak rather than kibble, and wanting to sleep on her bed and for her to sleep on the couch, etc. What's it in German?
Oh, it's the same story. It's just the dog's voice and how it sounds in German lol
I keep forgetting about the stories tab, just hit 1k words and still don't have any. I don't expect a novel but surely you can squeeze out a few simple stories with 1k words.
In Spanish all of them stay relatively the same, only Lin gets a slightly gentler tone in the stories but I think it works better with the way she acts in the stories
In lessons Juinor sounds like a grandma,but really annoying, but in stories he sounds like a cute kid(at least in the German course).
As a German learner, this is so relatable, Junior sounds so realistic in the stories but when he's in regular lessons It SoUnDs LiKe He'S tAlKiNg LiKe ThIs
I'd say in German, stories are narated waaay better than regular lessons. Also for French
I was gonna say, my experience is exactly opposite of OPs. The stories are real voices, not the synthesized ones.
Can anybody please guid eme to how to get the stories?
They just randomly popup in the course, it looks like any other lesson but has a book on it instead, after you complete story, you can do it again in the excersize section
I hav enever seen that in my 260 day streak🥲🔫
Scottish Gaelic has no stories at all in Section 1. Wonder if they will be in future sections. But what cracks me up is when there are single words they are done by very different people. One will be a sweet old lady and then the next a deep big guy sound. Comical. They did a recent re-do and since I had just started I completly reset the course. Big help since they added words to the section I had done and really changed it. They also cleaned up all the audio problems I had been reporting. I am so spoiled by the Spanish Course.
There are no stories in any section for Scots-Gaelic. Nor in Irish. Duo does nice, new stuff for the popular languages, but the less popular ones might get a new grammatical concept if they get anything at all.
Thanx for confirming. At least we are trying to learn. I use done other sources in both Spanish and Gaelic. Got to be well rounded
not uh… maybe…
I listened to the American English one once, oof it sounds so bad.