I started Duolingo May 6, 2023 after the idea of learning it “struck a motivational nerve.” I spent a lot of time learning it for the first year and a half, but now other things are grabbing my attention. So as I said two weeks ago in Inching Along, I was taking a mini-vacation from Spanish but was still doing a short Duolingo vocabulary drill every day.
Because I’m mostly streaming videos without Spanish subtitles I decided I should probably add something easy to increase my feeling for grammar and sentence structure. So now when I look at the daily email from my Spanish Dictionary app, I write down the sentence of the day and pronounce it out loud. It doesn’t take much time, but it engages more parts of my brain and it should have big results over the course of time if I do it daily. Here are two examples:
It turns out this was a great idea. Not just because I’m learning a few new words and keeping some momentum going, but because it makes me happy. For some reason I get excited when I read a sentence in a foreign language and understand it. In this case it doesn’t take much time at all and it gives me a little jolt of joy. That’s a winner for me.
May 6, 2025
Awesome and so positive
I don’t have the knack for learning languages. Took years of Spanish in high school and never did well at all. Decades later in college I didn’t remember anything but a few numbers and colors. I am really glad it works for you. 🙂
Well done for learning another language.
God bless.
This is amazing! Yay!!
…and continue to struggle with English.
This is wonderful….what a great thing to do. My husband speaks spanish and he learned it just by having hispanic men that worked for him. I sure admire you for taking on this challenge.