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
Thanks. 🙂
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. 🙂
It”s fun, that’s the only reason I’m doing it. 🙂
Well done for learning another language.
God bless.
Thanks. 🙂
This is amazing! Yay!!
Thanks. 🙂
…and continue to struggle with English.
Well, yeah. 😀
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.
Thanks. 🙂
I feel the same way about learning ASL. I’m still a novice, but it makes me happy.
Yes! That’s the important part, it feeds our soul.
Congrats!
Thanks. 🙂
I bet you are almost fluent by now!!
No, but that’s fine. I’m doing it because it’s fun and great exercise for my brain.
Simple pleasures are so important!
Yes! 🙂
Way to go. You did good at keeping up with this and you’ve learned so much over the past couple years.
Thanks. 🙂
I like this idea. Well done.
Thanks. 🙂
I really admire you doing this. You are amazing!
Thanks. 🙂
I am grateful to you adding me to your family account. I miss a day or two here and there but I am mostly keeping up. As when I learned French. I do well at reading, but writing probably will never get better than it did with French! This is a good idea, I may give it a try.
I’m not even trying to speak or write it. I’m doing it for fun and mental exercise. 🙂
Good for you. It’s nice to have a project like that.
It’s important for our mental health, I think.
Congratulations, you sure stuck with it!
Thanks. 🙂