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What helps me to maintain my language learning goals
Motivation: connection with people Learning from years of experience what got me going, I should continue to use low-entry apps such as Duolingo. It’s low effort to open the app or a browser tab, press D, hit enter and start a lesson in one of my target languages. That way I improve a bit, but […]
Language Learning with Netflix
I’m learning languages in multiple ways, but doing so while watching my favourite series and video’s makes it a lot of fun. I love the options to optionally auto-pause after each spoken sentence, show two (target) language subtitle lines at the same time. I’m currently usinh it for Russian, Swedish, Italian, Spanish and French and […]
Learning week 8
Monday Today I’ve been very busy with work, but I decided to do two a couple of exercises to practice my Arabic, Russian, Chinese and Arabic learning on Duolingo. I didn’t feel much energy after a long day, but it made me keep my 19 day streak. Tuesday Again a very busy day, so it […]
Concluding learning Week 7 – Day 5
Reaching my daily goal is not enough Even though I promised myself to keep up the daily exercises in Chinese, Turkish, Arabic and Russian, I realize my progress is minimal. It’s good that I followed up on my daily goal, but while maintaining my daily learning, I way to rethink the most efficient way to […]
Learning Week 7 day 5
Not having much time, I just felt compelled to stick to my daily goal on Duolingo to do Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Turkish exercises. Other than that, I’ll follow the news (listening and reading skills) and do some actual speaking practice during the rest of the day.
Language learning week 7 day 3
Hello, Duo! To get me started today, I’ll let the green owl help me. Diving into Arabic lessons He is generous and he is your husband, Judy. هُوَّ كَريم وَهُوَّ زَوْجِك يا جودي. Also, it’s interesting to realize that before ever learning some Arabic, I wouldn’t even have known where these Arabic words ended, only knowing spaces between words in […]
Language Immersion Week 2
During my personal language immersion last week I learned some Swedish, Spanish and Chinese. Learning Swedish by watching (SVT) news and TV series and (YouTube) videos To practice some Swedish listening, I watched this video about Swedish exceptionalism and news episodes from Nyheter pa latt svenska, Nyheter Direkt and I downloaded the SVT Språkplay app […]
Language Immersion Day 7
08:00 De Moien hunn ech um Lëtzebuerger Radio nogelauschtert. = In the morning I listened to Luxembourgish radio. 09:00 Etterpå hørte jeg på radio i Norge. = After, I listened to Norwegian Radio: NRK Radio P1 10:00 Efteråt lyssnade jag på radio på svenska. = Then, I listened to the radio in Swedish. 11:00 Depois […]
Language Immersion Day 6
08:00 Duolingo lessons Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Greek and Italian. Just those 5 today to reach my daily goal to maintain my streak. 09:00 Escoltava les notícies de la ràdio catalana. 10:00 J’ai ecouté radio Montpellier en francais sur radio.garden pendant une heur 11:00 Jeg hørte på radio i norge. 12:00 Durante el almuerzo he hablado […]