Okay idioms are really defeating me, doesn’t this say "the world belongs to those who rise early"? https://witches.town/media/JbNpjbjcWyHYIMLNFYU
@Murkrow It’s the literal translation, but idioms rarely translate literally; different images are used in different languages to convey the same idea.
If you say « The world belongs to those who rise early » to an English speaker, they will probably find it weird, and same goes the other way around if you translate literally the English idiom to French, so you need to learn each version rather than learn to translate them
(hoping that explanation makes sense…)
@Shalena okay maybe this is a me problem then. I'm learning as a foreigner and my goal is to get lots of building blocks so I can construct new sentences as needed instead of repeating things, so if I need to say "oh look! A bird's nest" or "aaaa, there is a bird in my bedroom!". Teaching the meaning of each word is more helpful to me personally than one long block of 'theearlybirdcatchestheworm' or 'littlebylittlethebirdmakesanest' but I guess that's just me since nobody else seems to have a problem with it.
@Murkrow No I totally understand what you mean, and you are absolutely right, but I think this is 2 different things here:
— On one part, you need, as you said, lots of building blocks to be able to make sentences, of course
— But on another part, there are also things that *cannot* be separated in blocks, because then they stop making sense, and they are also important to learn to understand the language
I don’t know your level in French or anything, but maybe the issue here is that the idiom segment should come later, when you know more words to be more comfortable with it?
(Don’t know how duolingo handles it either or how soon idioms come up)
@Shalena as soon as you do the first five modules and spend twenty owl-monies on it.
I just got too into it and frustrated that the two bonus modules aren't as well-taught as the rest - I'm sure by the time I've got further I'll be able to pick them apart better, and it seems to be working for most other people since I've not seen anybody else getting tetchy about it.
@Murkrow Yeah, that sounds way early, I can see why you’d be put off by it :/