itt: stories of yr attempts to master tongues via DUOLINGO

I only just started German a few weeks ago, but I feel like I'm taking to it faster than any other language I've ever tried. It's really fun.

wow, they just updated the french->italian course, and most of my "progress" is erased? I don't care, it's not like "finishing" the older course would have signified anything in particular re. competence in the language, but it's still striking. at least the undone levels are easy again!

Oh, yeah, it's all gone purple

But on the other hand I am much further along in the tree.

same here. & I don't mind doing easy things, to boost my basics. & the lessons are different now, for instance I don't remember "pronto" being introduced in the old lessons but now it's in like basics 1.

Had that a few times in my Spanish tree and I'm always glad now, as it means more content, so I can keep going ad infinitum!

I only just started German a few weeks ago, but I feel like I'm taking to it faster than any other language I've ever tried. It's really fun.
― jmm, Tuesday, August 4, 2020 4:20 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

come to the german thread !

The German language

I'm going to reset my german this week/next - might lace in some duolingo work as a novelty

I was going to reset my Italian through French tree and then try to place out of all the purple but then I just went to the last castle instead.

I'm back grinding the French tree after my lessons finished for the summer. Allez!

a Beatles fan at the Duolingo office must have snuck this one through

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDes5A_g1ap/

Heh

Today I discovered a person who does Duolingo at least twice as much as I do that I know in real life.

That’s...probably too much?

Ha, he admitted as much himself. But he has been quite helpful in assisting me in learning his language, so it has worked out okay for me so far.

I see that I have mentioned Babel No More on other threads but not this one, a very interesting book about the possibilities of language learning.

How did everybody do this week?

stayed put in diamond, nowhere near the top obviously since I'm never gonna grind like that. just chugging along.

The Hungarian word for fish is great: tintahal.

Squid I mean. Fish is hal.

Spanish course just got updated again.

Don’t see it. Must be in A/B testing.

Yes, it is. https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/41530472

Yep, that's what I've got. Good news for me, as I was getting bored again!

what happened to the Gaelic?

Sadly it fell by the wayside very quickly. I had to admit that I only really have time for one language at the moment.

I know how it goes. I can really do maybe two at time and still be learning something, although often I push it well beyond that. Anyway, came to say that today my streak reached 2^10 days of Duolingo.

Nice.

Makes me realise that I actually passed the 4 year mark yesterday - 1461 days!

the french tree got redone again

They also pretty radically changed the German course. Completionists are pretty vocally upset on their forums, having to now redo a bunch of early material to get the tree back to gold.

At some point it is a form of torture to go back in fill in all the new purple circles

I don’t recall reading this, which is pretty interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/14/hawaiian-gaelic-yiddish-learn-endangered-language-duolingo

Cha toil leam Calum.

This is crazy. There are only four people in my league cohort right now

Now it’s up to 42

Just saw a new animation for five in a row

And another for perfect

Hello

I finished the French->Italien tree last week, meaning I got them all to level 1. Now I'm going through for level 2. This is a better way for me than focusing on maxing the earlier lessons at the expense of later ones; I get less bored this way.

Passed the 1500 day mark this week. Next milestone is 5 years.

How’s the Italian going, Euler?

Molto buono !

I am working through the tree for the second time. It's a little tougher but I'm making fewer errors than on the first run. The biggest struggle is producing (by typing) whole sentences in Italian, unsurprisingly. I'm happy to have many Italian colleagues with whom I can practice speaking and even writing once I hit that point.

Cool. Years ago I used to post on a Yahoo Italian group which has been on life support and now will finally disappear, thinking of migrating to their new home at https://groups.io/g/Italian, but it is very old school.

I like Italians Mad At Food but that's mostly in English alas

I feel like my current regime in which I mainly focus on Hungarian, using Duolingo in both directions along with some other resources, is really working for me. I can elaborate further if anyone is interested.

Anyway I let myself drop to Obsidian this week. So relaxing. Don’t know quite what the new icon in the app that links to the blog is supposed to be about.

Still loving this staycation in Obsidian League.

RIP Tinycards.

"Molto buono !"

Should this be molto bene? I keep struggling with when to use which. Bene is adverb tho right?

Think so.