If I'm still alive, and still interested in learning after all that, I'll just pick and choose what sounds fun, like Vietnamese, Finnish, Polish.heck, maybe even learn some constructed languages like Esperanto, or Toki Pona.or heck, Klingon! Who knows?! :-DĮventually, I'll start doubling back and doubling down on languages to get myself from that 50% fluency mark to the much tougher 75/80% mark.Īnyway, I am VERY happy Duolingo is making it to Windows 10. I also have a podcast each in Spanish, Japanese, German, Dutch, and Norwegian that I listen to, and I watch Anime in Japanese (with subtitles, of course) -) I am currently watching Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.īeyond all that, I plan to study the biblical/ecclesial languages, and major world power languages, such as Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian. I do occasionally pop into the Spanish DuoLingo (which I tested out to about 1/2 way done) and Human Japanese just to touch up - not to progress, but just so that I don't regress. I have a fantastic app for it called "Human Japanese" that I got about 12 lessons into out of 80 before essentially postponing it to focus on the Germanics (I'm on Dutch now, and am about 1/5 of the way through the curriculum - next up is Norwegian). Get "Golden Owls" for all the major Germanic languages (German, Dutch, Norwegian, etc), then move to the Latinate (or "romance") Languages next (such as Italian, French, and yes, Spanish.) After that I'll probably break from DuoLingo to study Japanese. And I look to join "Stammtisch", a German language club here in Des Moines. ![]() I have begun corresponding with people in German online - including posting in German on the Facebook page of a German band I was into more than a decade before this language thing took off, namely, Jazzanova. I can converse in writing, but will require more practice speaking before I'm really fluid, and can understand what I'm reading or listening to about half the time. I have since completed the German curriculum, and have received my first "golden owl". I was afraid the early lessons would be too easy, and I'd get bored, and pitter out. It stands to reason that I'd start with Spanish since I was already at rough conversation level right? Nope. That's enough to read, write, and converse. Therefore, I know 100% fluency is not a realistic ambition.but 50% is 75% is. Now look, I mean, I'm a guy in my mid 30's, living in a mid-sized city / metro in the middle of the Midwest (specifically, Des Moines), with a family, so it's not like I can up and travel the world. It's not quite as crass as a true "woke up one morning and." story, but I realized that as an American English speaker, the world knew what I was saying.but I didn't know what the world was saying.and I felt a strong urge to fix that. But in the 17 years since I've graduated,I've only used it a little bit.Ībout 8 months ago, I began a journey to be a polyglot (a multilingual person). I took four years of Spanish in High school, and worked in a kitchen where Spanish was the primary language. Posted via the Windows Phone Central App for Android ![]() I suppose an ideal solution would be to give users the choice of which system they'd prefer and let them use it. so, I while I certainly get the charm of the heart system, and was initially reluctant to abandon it, I've since become an ardent supporter and a fan. Plus in heart mode, your mind is divided with the stress of being, say, just two questions away from finishing, but being on your last try and getting hit with a toughie.Īlso, while you MIGHT get through a heart system lesson a little faster (I've actually seen it go both ways), if time is your concern, and you're in a hard spot of the curriculum, constant failing and retrying will end up taking even more of your time in the grand scheme. And with the old heart method, it rips you out of the learning environment rather forcefully, where the new system keeps you entrenched the entire time, keeping your brain locked in "learn mode". :-)Īlso, while at first, I was opposed to going to the new system because it precluded the possibility of failure (making it too easy, and less long-term useful, I was afraid), I actually have found the new system is better for learning because while you can never "fail", it does reduce the progress on the bar every time you err so it doesn't just "let you get away with it either". But it protects you from failing and having to start all over because of simple typos - happened to me A LOT in the early days - even on my fairly massive Galaxy Note 3. The new system comes with its hassles, sure.
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