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My Duolingo: Swedish Level 4
Duolingo has helped me get daily exposure to the foreign languages I’m learning and it still does. Bless that little green owl! In 75 days I would reach a 365 day streak earning me the “Wildfire” achievement. There are 12 “Achievements” to be attained and I’ve already gotten 10. So…What I want to achieve this… — read more
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My Foreign Language Study Map
Now that I’m on a three-day workweek (lucky me!), I have more time to think about my approach to learning foreign languages, its implementation and execution. I came up with the table below to map out the days, languages and methods. — read more
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My (Revised) Duolingo Strategy
I have been thinking about how I go about my language learning using Duolingo. Now that I’ve sustained my Top 3 position in the Diamond League for a few weeks, I’m rethinking my learning strategy. — read more
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New Language Project: Norwegian and Danish
I’ve been tinkering with Norwegian and Danish for a while now on Duolingo and they’re similar to Swedish. I enjoy learning both and it’s time to get serious with them. I bought some books for a more in-depth study expanding on my knowledge of the Scandinavian languages (also called North Germanic languages). — read more
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My Duolingo: Diamond League
Success! I managed to reach the Duolingo final Diamond League AND kept my #1 position. Do check out my previous posts here and here where I talk about my history with the little green owl and where I am at with the languages I am learning. — read more
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More on Duolingo
I have been very busy in the last two weeks defending my first position in Duolingo and climbing up the final League: Diamond.My previous post speaks of my history (when I got started) with the little green owl and a brief status update. In this one, as at today, I have accumulated a total of… — read more
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Duolingo
I joined Duolingo in January 2014. That was six years ago!I started with learning Italian and then I added a few other foreign languages. Today, I have 10 on my list with a total accumulated XP (short for “Experience Points”) of 67,607. — read more
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Kató Lomb
A few days ago, I received my order of Alex Rawlings’ book, HOW TO SPEAK ANY LANGUAGE FLUENTLY. I’m now on page 84 and Kató Lomb was mentioned in the introduction, so I started to research more about her. She was a Hungarian interpreter, translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world.… — read more
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How to Speak Any Language Fluently
HOW TO SPEAK ANY LANGUAGE FLUENTLY by Alex Rawlings arrived in the mail today. I’m super excited and I’m placing this bright yellow book alongside my other language books.I first found out about Alex from Olly Richards’ podcast series, I Will Teach You A Language. — read more
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