DuoLingo Challenge

[FloridaMan]

I'd love to find the time to improve my language skills.

So far, I can order basic food and drink in French, Spanish and German. I just don't understand their replies though!

I think one of the best ways to learn a language is to actually go and live in the country, where you are forced to learn, or go hungry.

[scottalanmiller]

@FloridaMan said in DuoLingo Challenge:

I'd love to find the time to improve my language skills.

So far, I can order basic food and drink in French, Spanish and German. I just don't understand their replies though!

I think one of the best ways to learn a language is to actually go and live in the country, where you are forced to learn, or go hungry.

That's a major part of why we live abroad in non-English countries.

[scottalanmiller]

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I'm taking this very seriously.

[dafyre]

@scottalanmiller The question is how much of it are you retaining? lol.

[scottalanmiller]

@dafyre said in DuoLingo Challenge:

@scottalanmiller The question is how much of it are you retaining? lol.

The fluency is based on retention. DuoLingo keeps testing you on old stuff to gauge how much you are keeping.

[dafyre]

@scottalanmiller I should sign up and relearn all this Spanish I forgot, lol.

[scottalanmiller]

THis outage is making studying easy.

[wrx7m]

I took German in high school for a couple of years. When I first saw Duolingo a couple years ago, I started German again for a few months but got busy with other things and eventually stopped. It was great, though. I have always wanted to become fluent.

[scottalanmiller]

@wrx7m said in DuoLingo Challenge:

I took German in high school for a couple of years. When I first saw Duolingo a couple years ago, I started German again for a few months but got busy with other things and eventually stopped. It was great, though. I have always wanted to become fluent.

I use it from time to time but always get sidetracked or whatever. And we switch the languages that we speak locally all of the time which disrupts things. This time, I'm making a serious effort to get the Italian down.

[scottalanmiller]

While I'm waiting for the wife to get ready to go out....

[scottalanmiller]

Just completed by 30th lesson for the day!

[scottalanmiller]

@Dashrender DuoLingo has Klingon now!

[NerdyDad]

@scottalanmiller HIJa'

[dafyre]

@scottalanmiller Forget Spanish, I'm learning Klingon!

[hobbit666]

@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:

@Dashrender DuoLingo has Klingon now!

I'm singing up now!!!!!

[NerdyDad]

Its a start.

[scottalanmiller]

I'm on a seven day streak here now. Woot.