Speedrunning Duolingo is making my brain rot (Zulu)

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This is it, the end of all available languages on Duolingo... As an English speaker... There's still 2 bonus ones down the line, and the possibility of finishing the entire isiZulu course in just 2 streams. Zulu was without a doubt up there in the fun-scale of languages, even though it has some weird complex stuff going on. I do love learning the intricacies of languages, so I condensed some information throughout the video. Not many Lion King references this time, but still used some amazing Zulu music in this speedrun video. Clicks weren't plentiful, but they will come in the checkpoint 2 speedrun!
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⌛ Timestamps
0:00 Recap
1:18 Intro: Part 2
1:47 Hobbies
3:15 Grammar and cheese
5:37 More hobbies
8:42 Travel
13:18 Jobs
18:35 FINAL TEST (no cheese)
19:49 TIME!
21:15 Merch and thanks!
#zulu #isizulu #polyglot #speedrun #duolingo #languages #southafrica #duolingomemes #duolingospeedrun #linguistics #languagelearning #random #challenge #bantu

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[@daniellin5373]

it's sad that the xhosa course just disappeared before coming out. i've been waiting for it for a long time. i mean, certainly it is a similar language with zulu, but it's happy to see another one with clicks

[@AndorianBlues]

same with the Māori course, which they announced as "coming soon" at the same time as they announced Xhosa. Now they're instead saying they're concentrating on improving more popular languages only. Probably due to the pivot to AI - AI is reasonably good at languages with lots of data available (English, Spanish, Mandarin, etc) but sucks at languages which don't have much data to work with. So languages without a big corpus of text available like Xhosa or Māori are just going to fall by the wayside, unfortunately. It sucks.

[@ElijaPin]

Aw I hoped for another African course. I wish they atleast make more Asian courses

[@daniellin5373]

@@ElijaPin I always hope for a Thai course. The Thai writing system is too complicated that it would be very difficult for me to remember without a Duolingo-styled method.

[@liezelgeyser3160]

I vote you finish zulu, just because the memes that came from these last two videos have been the funniest

[@batpixi_]

The editing is crazy

[@jccbm]

Makes sense, since this has made me go slightly insane

[@angelribbon777]

no cause this made me want to learn zulu 😭i already learning 3 languages at the same time

[@WedsleyFelix]

I'm learning indonesian and mandarin, I'm holding myself not to start another one.

[@angelribbon777]

@@WedsleyFelix this is so true, i myself learning French Italian and Swedish !! its so hard to not start learning another one !!

[@avi_mation]

SAME- i’m learning Spanish, Japanese and German.

[@jccbm]

How's it going with Italian+French simultaneously? It's gotta be confusing

[@angelribbon777]

@@jccbm it is confusing, but it is challenging at the same time !!

[@SimonSky.]

the THX sound gets me every time! 🤣

[@meleh_m]

I love these so much, wish you can do more. ❤

[@_LBH_]

I vote for finishing Zulu

[@egorsokolov6959]

As like you can speak Latin American Spanish as your native language, you can learn Guarani & Catalan, to make sense for your subscribers, you can make translation from Latin American Spanish to English Language with SUBTITLES

[@jccbm]

It's all done. No need to worry. All in old Duolingo 🤣

[@CandyassGoth]

I found this video because I just finished the Zulu course, which I did not expect so soon. And that's because the course is so short and incomplete that I Googled to find out wtf, and found this video instead. You've distracted me and given me a fun few minutes to cool down, so thank you. Fun video!

[@yorgunsamuray]

Baba, the word for "father" in Zulu being the same as Turkish surprised me :) Seems like they put a lot of South Africa specific music genres in the mix. Nobody talks about gamelan in the Indonesian course. Duolingo has this penchant of having the literal translations of the examples. Russian uses a posessive pronoun meaning "one's own" in place of others and the Russian course through Turkish uses the word "one's own" (Turkish: kendi) all the time. A sentence meaning "Draw your mother" is always written as "Draw your own mother". Frankly this also can be possible but most of the cases, don't.

[@AlessioPoliglota]

i like the editing

[@WedsleyFelix]

Ngingudokotela esibhedlela.

[@jccbm]

Are you? Nice 👍

[@coffeewlucas]

You should speedrun the second units of each language

[@DeanO71866]

The Zoo Tycoon 2 music in the background in the middle of the video 😭

[@daniellin5373]

oh i kinda stuck figuring out why is the ngoLwesithathu like that, and i couldn't find it on wiktionary or zulu dictionary. thx very much for the information about the vowel merge of preposition 😂

[@jccbm]

It's hard to get a hold of that information! I did quite a bit of research and trial and error. At this point I'm not 100% sure of some of it, but it all made sense so I went for it. I had to read a few papers, blogs and lessons to get to the bottom of it.

[@klank9409]

aw yeah

[@nathanbeer3338]

Imoto is also younger sister in Japanese.

[@makemevomitblood]

Дякую за відео,сирного тобі дня!

[@jccbm]

You too! Thanks

[@siam_enjoyer8584]

Ейоу, і тут є наші живчики!

[@maiya51]

Now I want to play civ 6, thanks

[@jccbm]

Saaaaaaaaame

[@IgnemFeram01]

How do you still have the tree? I would love to use the Duolingo tree again, I hate the path.

[@daniellin5373]

it was recorded back then before the change, so he doesn't really still have it now

[@ne_kaemi]

It feels illegal to be this early

[@CandyassGoth]

16:35 I laughed so fecking hard looool

[@dodolulupepe]

jccbm should learn toki pona...

[@phantomgaming4656]

Can someone tell me what the white dots are in the progress bar?

[@GiovanniNicolasMezaDelgado]

btw. Theres a course of Cantonese in duolingo. But just to Chinese speakers.

[@lukafranjic6823]

Very good video. Can you tell us how to change back to this old duolingo layout

[@daniellin5373]

he recorded the video a long time ago, so he didn't really change it back. just that this was recorded back then

[@carloscachicamo331]

i know you just normally do duolingo videos with fantastic edits but have you ever considered doing a sorta medium indepth video on how to speak like a venezuelan? I feel like its a niche that no one really goes over. you know kind of like little things like dropping the d in pescado sometimes.

[@user-ye8hb1co7g]

I said WHERE IS GUARANI

[@beniaminbaciu4456]

vote for y'all

[@akelzorXd]

Is it somewhere kink on your duolingo profile?

[@AlienXMyag]

Where are you bro?

[@rafityfirefirelol9340]

i like this videos is funny and do you learn with this videos (sorry my English is not the best)

[@jccbm]

I'm happy to hear that, that's the goal, learning + entertainment!

[@meleh_m]

Ngiyakuthanda bhuti.

[@annymus4502]

03:40 Valid reaction lmao (this is a joke btw)

[@jwjwlove16]

Did you finished navaho before zulu?

[@jccbm]

Zulu is the last one (for english speakers)! Every other one was done

[@jjreturns2102]

How is your duolingo like that

[@gumas7708]

grzyb

[@tuanacgl4697]

Do a math speedrun

[@MaxBirAdam]

PLS POST AGAİN MAN

[@loui2bolus265]

Why do u have the old duolingo tree lol

[@WedsleyFelix]

He's recorded the videos in 2018 and now he's uploading them.

[@jccbm]

HAHAHA it was in 2022 though, but the point still stands

[@loui2bolus265]

I have a question. Will u do a season 2? (Unit 2 speedruns)

[@jccbm]

@@loui2bolus265 The problem is the format change. With old Duolingo, you could get very far into vocabulary until checkpoint 1, now we need quite a few units to cover that (probably 6-10). Unit 2 is extremely basic on the new path tree. So, no, it wouldn't work. But we'll find something to do!

[@loui2bolus265]

@jccbm okay. I'm looking forward to see what u make next!

[@AlessioPoliglota]

why your duolingo version is different?

[@daniellin5373]

it was recorded before the update

[@AlessioPoliglota]

thanks @@daniellin5373

[@Beocui99]

Xin chào Bạn.

[@shieldwalker]

6:41 was this music really necessary? How insensitive