{"id":17149,"date":"2018-12-04T22:21:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17149"},"modified":"2018-12-04T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:21:35","slug":"500-days-of-duolingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17149","title":{"rendered":"500 days of Duolingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/various\/duolingo500days.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px; max-width:100%; height:auto;\" alt=\"Duolingo screenshot\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today my streak on Duolingo reached 500 days. Before then I had a 96 day streak, but lost that one day when I didn&#8217;t quite get enough points. So for the past 596 days I have studied a bit of various languages every day. This is the longest continuous period of study I&#8217;ve managed, and I plan to maintain it for as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Back in early 2017 I started studying Swedish and Russian on Duolingo. Later I added Romanian to the mix, and this year I added Danish and Esperanto. I&#8217;ve finished all the Swedish and Russian lessons, and am continuing to study them on Memrise. I decided to take a break from the Romanian last year, and am currently working on Danish and Esperanto. When I finish them I may add other languages I want to improve, such as Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ve become fluent in any of these languages, but my knowledge of them certainly has improved. I&#8217;ve made more progress with Swedish and Danish than with Russian or Romanian, which I find more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>On Memrise I&#8217;m currently studying Swedish, Danish, Russian and Cornish, and have learnt bits of Icelandic, Slovak and Slovenian over the past year or so. I may start Slovak again in preparation for the Polyglot Gathering in Bratislava next year.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your longest streak on Duolingo, or other language learning apps?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this aspect of such apps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my streak on Duolingo reached 500 days. Before then I had a 96 day streak, but lost that one day when I didn&#8217;t quite get enough points. So for the past 596 days I have studied a bit of various languages every day. This is the longest continuous period of study I&#8217;ve managed, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,104,105,116,124,128,10,13,41,51,52,60,61,64,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cornish","category-english","category-esperanto","category-german","category-icelandic","category-italian","category-language","category-language-learning","category-portuguese","category-romanian","category-russian","category-slovak","category-slovenian","category-spanish","category-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}