Esperanto Report
Aug. 12th, 2019 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetGuess who finished the entire Esperanto course on DuoLingo today?
That's right, it's me!
I am indeed rather pleased with myself, though I definitely don't feel as fluid as I could be. I got double crowns on most of the first half of the course when I was going through it (and three or four on a few of the lessons) before I decided to just do once-and-done, so I think I'll be going through and re-doing the old lessons until I at least get two levels in each one. I might go all the way to four crowns in each, but considering that the fifth level of the first lesson has some fifteen micro-levels, I might not go farther than four on each.
I've also added the app Drops to my daily practice routine. It's a visual-focused vocabulary building and drilling app, and I gotta say, it's working pretty well for me as a supplement. Vocab building wasn't my strongest point in DuoLingo, and matching pictures of concepts with the vocab words rather than with their direct English translations is really helping reinforce the words for me. I went ahead and bought a year's subscription on the day after I downloaded it since it offered me a sale, and it's cheaper than a year of DuoLingo, even on Duo's New Year's sale. That means I don't know a lot of the limitations of the free version, aside from how it only gives you five minutes of practice every ten hours or so (though you can earn extra by completing streaks and a few other ways). I'm really enjoying it, and a lot of the vocab art is super cute.
Oof, I really need to make myself an Esperanto icon.
That's right, it's me!
I am indeed rather pleased with myself, though I definitely don't feel as fluid as I could be. I got double crowns on most of the first half of the course when I was going through it (and three or four on a few of the lessons) before I decided to just do once-and-done, so I think I'll be going through and re-doing the old lessons until I at least get two levels in each one. I might go all the way to four crowns in each, but considering that the fifth level of the first lesson has some fifteen micro-levels, I might not go farther than four on each.
I've also added the app Drops to my daily practice routine. It's a visual-focused vocabulary building and drilling app, and I gotta say, it's working pretty well for me as a supplement. Vocab building wasn't my strongest point in DuoLingo, and matching pictures of concepts with the vocab words rather than with their direct English translations is really helping reinforce the words for me. I went ahead and bought a year's subscription on the day after I downloaded it since it offered me a sale, and it's cheaper than a year of DuoLingo, even on Duo's New Year's sale. That means I don't know a lot of the limitations of the free version, aside from how it only gives you five minutes of practice every ten hours or so (though you can earn extra by completing streaks and a few other ways). I'm really enjoying it, and a lot of the vocab art is super cute.
Oof, I really need to make myself an Esperanto icon.
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Date: 2019-08-13 04:34 pm (UTC)I'm glad you have a vocab builder. I've been using mine extensively, and now I need to get back into grammar practice, too. (In Japanese. Language learning is fun.)
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Date: 2019-08-13 08:36 pm (UTC)It's a great match for my learning style so far; I'm really happy with it :3b
Oof, grammar 😓 I hate having to go to DuoLingo's website to learn the grammar lessons. Luckily I've got another game lined up to help me with that, but it's not on mobile and has a significant storyline (more involved than "Let's collect all the things!"), so we'll see how that goes.
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Date: 2019-08-14 03:06 pm (UTC)Yay, games with story! Yay, games for learning! I hope it goes well.