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Duolingo has hidden the Tips & Notes so not everyone knows about them. If you are doing the course on iOS or Android, you cannot currently access the Tips & Notes through the app. To access the Tips & Notes, you will have to access the course using a web browser at https://www.duolingo.com/. You can still do it on your mobile device, but you will have to use the web browser instead of the app (or you can do it from a computer). When you click on a Skill, it will expand to reveal a Start button, a key, and a light bulb.

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If you click on the light bulb it will reveal the Tips & Notes and give you a detailed explanation of the grammar that is introduced in that Skill. Duolingo is testing a new pattern where instead of a light bulb, there is a large button that says "Tips", so some people might see that instead. If you are on the web interface and see neither a lightbulb, nor a "Tips" button, then that specific Skill probably doesn't have any Tips & Notes.

The course is basically well past the Beta stage, but the software does not always handle Klingon well, so the contributors have asked that it be left perpetually in Beta until the software situations can be imporved. Some improvements have been made (like finally getting the ability to include audio) and I suppose there is some small part of me that hopes we will eventually get the rest fixed, but whether that is 2 months or 20 years is impossible to predict. Klingon is not a high priority course for the company, but the contributors have created a pretty good course for the limtations they face (if I do say so myself).

Please take advantage of the Discussion Forums and the Tips & Notes. Duolingo has hidden the Tips & Notes, so I want to make sure you know about them and where to find them. Please review the Tips & Notes whenever you start a new Skill, even if that means putting down your phone and going to a computer for the first time you do a new Skill.

If you are doing the course on iOS or Android, you cannot currently access the Tips & Notes through the app. To access the Tips & Notes, you will have to access the course using a web browser at https://www.duolingo.com/. You can still do it on your mobile device, but you will have to use the web browser instead of the app (or you can do it from a computer, since it will be easier to read there). When you click on a Skill, it will expand to reveal a Start button, a key, and a light bulb.

https://pne.mizinamo.org/pics/duolingo/tips-and-notes-lightbulb.png

If you click on the light bulb it will reveal the Tips & Notes and give you a detailed explanation of the grammar that is introduced in that Skill. If you have questions after reading the Tips & Notes for any Skills, then you can go to the Duolingo Klingon forum to ask your questions or bring them here.

It's pretty awesome as is, honestly. Accurate, consistent, useful.
There's discussions from other uses about each section so if you aren't sure about why the answer is what it was, there's probably a discussion about it.

And it's free, so nothing to lose.

For anyone interested, here's a link - https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/tlh/en/Learn-Klingon

Don't waste you're time buying the dictionary. I did, and it was a mistake. Even the latest version available hasn't been updated since the 90's and many more words have been added since then. I use Duolingo myself and it is a wonderful app, especially if used in conjunction with boQwI' on Android. My recommendation would be to work on just one lesson over and over again until you max it out to level 5 before moving to the next. The first few lessons can be a bit overwhelming since they introduce many new words at once. Then, go back to previous lessons whenever you feel you need to brush up. If you do decide to use Duolingo, feel free to add me. My username is DavidWehar

I think tojbogh nIqHom isn't specific enough. "Software which deceives" could maybe also refer to trojan horses or some kind of scammy app. Since tojbogh pa' is hardware (I think?), the analogous technology would be something like tojbogh neqratlh "glasses which deceive".

As for pronunciation, the Latin transcription for Klingon is completely phonetic, and you can find out what the letters sound like here.

If you want to hear entire phrases, you'd have to get a Klingon Text-To-Speech Engine, like this one (which I wrote).

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Sounds like a plan :) While I normally recommend people to do whatever they find fun no matter their level of experience, but such a project will probably be more fun to do once you have the experience required to take a holistic approach to the translation, rather than having to learn a lot as you go.

It's great that you're an expect on the Russian language and literature; the Klingon translation of the Tao Te Ching is very interesting because it was translated directly from Chinese by a professional translator and linguist, along with annotations. She also has a translation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War which should be published within the next couple of years.

Well, if you're interested in investing a bit of money, the Klingon Dictionary does have, in my opinion, a nice learning structure. It starts with pronounciation, goes over to the most basic grammar, introduces the noun-constructions, eventually verbs and finally teaches entire syntaxes, including... "adjectives". On Amazon, you can currently buy it for the reasonable price of 11.25$. (However, since my sister is a bookseller, I feel obliged to ask you to buy it at your local bookstore.)