Evening, gang.
Following discussion in this thread about Bluetooth headset issues:-
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=6053
....and with grateful thanks to @user1234 for digging this up, I'm pleased to be able to offer
DuoLingo-Portable
A desktop client, that is essentially a 'wrapper' around the Duolingo website.....turning it into a 'webapp'. Electron-based, this is a pretty apt description of the way these things usually work anyway.
Works pretty well, too. I've been using it this evening to brush-up on my schoolboy French; my only niggle is the almost 'cartoon-like' multiple-choice questions you get posed, along with animated characters praising you up every time you get something right..!
Have our educational systems really devolved this far? It's a far cry from how stuff used to get taught when I was at school, 50-some odd years ago.....and is a telling comment on the state of society, when folks need to be made to feel good about themselves at every opportunity.
What happened to self-esteem, hmm?
(*shakes head in disbelief*)
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Mini-rant aside, it seems a very good way to quickly get your head around the basic concepts of another language. It's also shown me that I really hadn't forgotten half as much French as I thought I had! (Which quite surprised me, given that I haven't used it seriously for almost 40 years.)
Being Electron-based, of course, makes it an ideal candidate for the 'portable' format. And so it's proved.
Anybody who may be interested, you can find it here:-
https://mega.nz/folder/qKRSnbhB#MpFWMnPL1O-AS6LpFy-zRg
As always:-
Download
Unzip
Move the portable directory anywhere you like - preferably outside the 'save'
Click to enter
Start via the 'LAUNCH' script to keep it 'portable'. If required, scripts will let you add a Menu entry for greater system integration...
See what y'all think of it.
Mike.