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[Phoenixguard09]

It is my pleasure to announce that we have two new triumphs to award! Both Phoenixguard09 and Jubal have now both amassed the necessary 300 triumph points.

Phoenixguard09
Proposing two motions on the plaza and writing a couple of short stories, as well as reaching 3000 posts on Exilian, are just some of the things Phoenixguard has been awarded triumph points for. Also on the list are encouraging Ladyhawk to join the site, successfully proposing Deathnade's citizenship and getting up ridiculously early for a staff meeting.

Jubal
Our recently elected Basileus has now surpassed 8000 posts. Jubal has been awarded a large number of triumph points for the creative writing that he has done (in particular A Slave's Tale and a quite substantial selection of poems) along with beginning an AAR. Also on the list are the release of A Game of Colleges and the citizenship of luckynumber13 and Rob. This is Jubal's second triumph.

I believe both congratulations and assorted raucous celebrations are in order!

I wondering what people's opinions on language learning methods were generally (my mother is a linguist)? And also if people hard heard of Duolingo. It got thrown at me during my A2 year and I recently looked back at it.

It seems like a pretty good idea to me and it's got the repetition required for language learning. I'm currently using it to try to fix up my german skills but I'm not sure how good it would be with respect to learning a new language from scratch. It's limited to only a few languages at the moment and the format can be slightly irritating at times but I can definitely see it improving.

Thoughts and opinions? Cries of hatred? Hurls of assorted rotting food items?

Also, what languages do people speak?

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What do people think of these?

I can see where it's coming from but I feel somewhat hypocritical agreeing with them, being a somewhatmorethanaveragelysuccessful product of the English school system. The thing is, I'm not sure how much that was down to my school. I still feel the way I think about problems is kind of sub-optimal.

Thoughts? Opinions? Cries of outrage? Yells of support for our wonderful education secretary?