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Updates: Streaming, Knitting, Writing

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Updates

Updates

The past 9 days or so have been kind of crazy with flooring contract discussions, trying to stream and catch up on other streams, figuring out what to knit next and researching charities to donate to, family and ongoing flu/virus season, and the never-ending smattering of small, time-sensitive items that have to get done. Continue reading →

Spanish Level 10, Fluency 23%!

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DuoLingo

DuoLingo

I’ve been using both DuoLingo and online resources to relearn Spanish and this morning I finally advanced to Level 10, with my fluency hovering at 23%. For some reason, I can’t quite commit to memory the words cuándo (when), cuál (which), cuáles (pl. which) or quiénes (pl. who). If I read too many practice sessions using all of these words, as well as cuánto/cuántos (How much) and qué (what), I start to make mistakes with all of them. So for now, lots of notes/cheat sheets.

I also notice that now I start thinking about Spanish equivalents while writing english. John and I were playing Technodefirmacraft over the weekend, in which bears attack out of nowhere, and yelling el Oso/un oso! (the bear/a bear!) became a lively joke for a short time. 🙂

Anyway, I’m happy with my Spanish progress. I’ve been learning in spurts between baking, cleaning, laundry and writing.

Back to Spanish

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Back in November 2015, I decided I should really try to learn Spanish again. I took 3 years of Spanish in High School – back in the 80’s, but haven’t retained much of it. I ordered a copy of my old HS textbook and along with some library resources, I also started working with DuoLingo and Memrise to work on proficiency.

I stopped working on this during the holidays and with my online writing group’s JanNoWriMo challenge (National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, but taking place in January), I didn’t work on it much last month, either. But I’m back now, and it appears I’m up to 14% Spanish fluency!

14% Spanish Fluency - DuoLingo 2 Feb 2016

14% Spanish Fluency – DuoLingo 2 Feb 2016

I’m curious if anyone else is using DuoLingo, Memrise, or other online resources to learn Spanish, or another language – I am also poking around with Norwegian and Japanese. Feel free to comment below about which language(s) you’re trying to master and what online resources you’re using. I wouldn’t mind adding some friends to follow and encourage on language-learning websites. I’m usually out there as Girlnovember on those sites, if you’d like to add me as well. 🙂