{"id":18221,"date":"2019-08-28T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18221"},"modified":"2021-07-27T20:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:39:12","slug":"language-learning-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18221","title":{"rendered":"Language Learning Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/48625385157\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Just finished the Spanish course on Duolingo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48625385157_d7062df65e_n.jpg\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 20px; border:1px solid #000;\" alt=\"Just finished the Spanish course on Duolingo\" width=\"180\" height=\"320\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This week I finally completed the Spanish course on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duolingo.com\/profile\/Omniglossia\">Duolingo<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been using it to improve and refresh my Spanish, as I have studied the language with various courses before. I can now understand, read, write and speak a lot more Spanish than before, though need to practise speaking and writing it more.<\/p>\n<p>I first took a placement test on Duolingo to see how much Spanish I already knew, and didn&#8217;t start from the beginning. Then I skipped through each level using the tests, rather than working through each lesson individually. Had I done that, it would take a lot longer. For now, I&#8217;m not studying Spanish actively anymore, but will use it whenever I get the chance.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two and a half years or so, I&#8217;ve studied languages every day with Duolingo (current streak = 767 days). I&#8217;ve completed courses in Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Danish and Esperanto. I also completed the Romanian course, then they added lots of extra levels, and I haven&#8217;t gone back to work on those. At the moment I&#8217;m focussing on Czech, and will continue to do so, working through every lesson, so it&#8217;s going to take quite a while. I don&#8217;t plan to start any other languages until I&#8217;ve finished the Czech course.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ve also been studying Czech, and Russian, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdoqocy.com\/click-2591325-14103337\">Mondly<\/a> &#8211; Czech for 226 days and Russian for 153 days. I really like their courses and am learning a lot from them.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memrise.com\/user\/Ieithgi\/\">Memrise<\/a> I&#8217;m studying Russian, Danish and Swedish. When I started using Memrise nearly two years ago, I already knew some Russian and Swedish. and started Swedish from level 2. I started Danish last year from scratch, although my knowledge of Swedish, and German and English, certainly helps. I&#8217;m currently doing level 6 courses in Swedish and Danish, and level 5 in Russian.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/lkms5i9?adgroup=6330282&amp;creative=September2019TestEmail&amp;fallback=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.memrise.com%2F%3Fsource%3D6330282%26campaign%3DSeptember2019Test\">sign up to Memrise<\/a> by 16th September, you will get a 50% discount, and I&#8217;ll get a small commission.<\/p>\n<p>I find these apps with the streak counters really encourage me to study every day. It has become a habit to do so, and one I plan to continue for as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from these studies, I keep my French and Welsh ticking over by speaking them regularly, and other languages by using them occasionally.<\/p>\n<p>How are your language studies going?<\/p>\n<p>Do you prefer to focus on one language at a time, or to learn two or more simultaneously?<\/p>\n<p>What courses, apps and other resources do you use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I finally completed the Spanish course on Duolingo. I&#8217;ve been using it to improve and refresh my Spanish, as I have studied the language with various courses before. I can now understand, read, write and speak a lot more Spanish than before, though need to practise speaking and writing it more. I first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,100,104,105,111,116,10,51,52,60,61,64,67,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-danish","category-english","category-esperanto","category-french","category-german","category-language","category-romanian","category-russian","category-slovak","category-slovenian","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221","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=18221"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21230,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221\/revisions\/21230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}