Lectio Linguarum

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Hawaiian

I started the Hawaiian course on Duolingo to-day:

I'd intended to start it back in March but never got around to it. Recently, I'd been thinking about not doing Hawaiian at all. But here I am... doing it.

This is the twenty-third language I've started learning, and it's the first language I've started this year. The last language I started was Hungarian last October.

Thursday, June 6, 2019

No More Duolingo Levels

I think it happened a few days or even a few weeks ago, but I noticed to-day that Duolingo seems to have done away with the levels for each language. All I see on my profile now are my XP totals:

When they introduced the crowns system, I was a bit suspicious that they would get rid of the levels eventually, and now here we are.

The primary purpose of this blog was to keep track of when I levelled up in languages on Duolingo. Now that that's gone, posts here will probably be few and far between.

Sunday, May 5, 2019

Et cetera et cetera

A few times in the last two months, I heard or read "et cetera et cetera." "Et cetera" is Latin for "and others," but I think people are starting to use it with the intended meaning of "and so on." If the actual meaning of the Latin is held to, however, "et cetera et cetera" doesn't even make sense (or - at the very least - it's redundant). As I've written about before, "et... et..." in Latin is the correlative "both... and...," so "et cetera et cetera" isn't "and others and others" (or - as people try to use it - "and so on and so on"). Rather, it means "both others and others."

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Duolingo Levels Update

I was looking through my Duolingo levels and comparing them to what I've posted here, and I discovered that I'd unknowingly levelled up in three languages: