#transparent language

[norskenotater]

FYI.

[theenglishnook]

Limpidity means pure clarity—of water, thought, or feeling. It captures the beauty of transparency, where nothing is hidden, and everything flows with calm precision. It’s clarity distilled to its essence.

LIMPIDITY

[maureen-corpse]

So far the differences between Duolingo and Transparent Language are extremely apparent. I decided to start with Norwegian to get a fuller experience because I'm sure I'll be able to pick up the Transparent Language Spanish lessons fast, and well. Duolingo will spend a hundred years walking you through five minutes at a coffee shop telling you that the coffee is hot. Transparent Language gives you thirteen new words and phrases in a lesson and implies that as soon as you get to Norway you will destroy a car and need to get to the American Consulate

[zhooniyaa-waagosh]

Transparent Language includes small cultural lessons, talking about etiquette and clothing and religion and the like, and I really appreciate that because a lot of language learning apps neglect the cultural and social side of language.

But in one of the recent cultural lessons I did, it was a video. Of someone walking down some Japanese streets. Completely silently. They walked down some quiet residential streets, down a busy street around a shrine, and through a market street. There was absolutely no commentary. Some passerbys looked towards the camera in apparent confusion at being filmed. The video ended with a silent close-up of a poster presumably advertising kimono.

There was no explanation or text for this lesson.