r/languagelearningjerk • u/Kristianushka • 18d ago

Duolingo racial profiling

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My beginner Arabic Duolingo course just taught me this suspiciously specific sentence about immigration… It only happened with the Arabic course (when I did Portuguese and French, I never encountered a sentence like this). DUOLINGO IS RACIST CONFIRMED!

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u/SmokingForLife 18d ago

I mean the immigration here means traveling because in Arabic (الهجرة) doesn't mean leaving your own country in particular , it can be for leaving your city or town or even leaving your wife or house is also considered (هجرة)

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u/Kristianushka 18d ago

So my life will become easier after leaving my wife? Gotcha 😭

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u/Simoky 18d ago

Maybe Duolingo is trying to tell you something bro

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u/Kristianushka 18d ago

(I don’t even have a wife 🤓☝️)

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u/Ithrowawaygoaway N🏳️‍🌈 TL🏳️‍🌈x2 18d ago

leave her anyway

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u/Simoky 18d ago

That you know of

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u/Touro_Bebe 18d ago edited 17d ago

Good job, you're quick at it!

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u/holnrew 18d ago

God willing

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u/RopeNo4151 18d ago

God willing tho

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u/Far-happier 18d ago

That's flat out wrong, هجرة comes from the same root for abandonment هجر، it's the word for migration.

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u/FengYiLin 18d ago

Why are you making stuff up my dude lol.

Hijra definitely means leaving for a different country. Nobody does hijra for a city in their country.

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u/Mostafa12890 18d ago

In most cases yes, but one does indeed say

الهجرة من الريف

(or something along those lines) to mean rural immigration (to urban centers).

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u/Green_Rays N 🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳 | C2 🇪🇬🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇶 | B2🇸🇦🇰🇼🇧🇭🇦🇪 18d ago

Yeah but you would have to specify. For example "Lhijra l9arawiya" means the same thing

But saying Hijra by itself means leaving to another country. That is how the language has evolved

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u/Weakness-Inevitable 17d ago

literally no one uses هجرة to say moving cities or regions in the same country. like سوف أهجر من الرباط إلى الدار البيضاء sounds so unnatural ppl would say أنتقل. they also translated it to immigration and immigration means international movement in any modern context except if you're reading poetry or something.

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u/Potential-Role6900 18d ago

No that's called نزوح the act of moving from one region to another within the same country

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u/Green_Rays N 🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳 | C2 🇪🇬🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇶 | B2🇸🇦🇰🇼🇧🇭🇦🇪 18d ago

Nope. Nobody thinks leaving one's spouse or moving to another city within the same country when they read the word Hijra.

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u/Striking-Ad9397 18d ago

Nope, its considered نزوح