Sunday, October 9, 2022

Conquered German Skill Tree... Again

I conquered the German skill tree on Duolingo... again.


I completed the skill tree on the web version on 30 September, but there's some discrepancy between the web version and the app, so I had to do two more skills on the app in order to get this graphic.

I've completed the skill tree at least twice before.  Here's a post from August 2020 when I got the level four trophy, and here's a post from December 2021 when - after Duolingo updated the skill tree and took that trophy away - I reached level one again.  Sometime after that, Duolingo must have updated the skill tree yet again and taken away an-other of my trophies.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Conquered Ukrainian Skill Tree

I completed the Ukrainian skill tree on Duolingo!  It took me almost exactly seven months; I started on 22 February.

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Conquered Danish Skill Tree

I started learning Danish on Duolingo on 24 September 2015.  Because it was a lower priority language for me, I did lessons only infrequently, but for the last month or so, I've been doing a lesson every day (although I might have missed a day here or there), and I conquered the skill tree to-day!

Monday, August 22, 2022

Dutch Level 4

I reached Dutch level 4 on Duolingo, but then I discovered that, apparently, Duolingo did away with the graphics that show these specific milestones.  Now, all I get is a more generic course completion graphic:

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Italian Level 5 Trophy

I reached Level 5 in the Duolingo Italian course:


Monday, June 13, 2022

Esperanto Level 2 Trophy

I reached level 2 in the Duolingo Esperanto course:

Friday, May 27, 2022

Hebrew Level 3 Trophy

I reached level 3 in the Duolingo Hebrew course:

Saturday, May 21, 2022

Conquered Portuguese Skill Tree

I conquered the Portuguese skill tree on Duolingo!



Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Conquered French Skill Tree... Yet Again

According to the mobile app, I completed Duolingo's French skill tree yester-day.  I usually do French on the web version, though, where I still had to pass checkpoint 10, which I did this morning.  In any case, I conquered the French skill tree.


This is the third time I've done it now.  (Here's a link to a post about the second time.)  Duolingo keeps updating the skill tree and taking my trophy away.

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Conquered Romanian Skill Tree

I conquered the Romanian skill tree on Duolingo!

Friday, April 1, 2022

Navajo Level 4 Trophy

I reached Navajo level 4 on Duolingo to-day:


I think I've said this every time I've levelled up in the Navajo course, but it bears repeating:  I don't know as much about Navajo as this would seem to indicate.  For one thing, the skill tree is pretty short, and most of the time, I'm guessing.

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Conquered Greek Skill Tree (Again)

I did an extra Greek lesson to-day and conquered the skill tree on Duolingo again:


Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Ukrainian

Partially because the Ukraine has been in the news a lot lately (which I know even though I don't follow the news), I started learning Ukrainian on Duolingo:


I've done only the first lesson so far, but I found it interesting that "mom" and "dad" were among the words I learned.  I don't know if these words were chosen because they have few letters, because they have cognates in many other languages, or because it simulates learning a language naturally ("mom" and "dad" are probably among the first words learned in one's native language).  Maybe some combination of these.

I'm starting to lose track of how many languages I'm learning now, so - mostly for my own future reference - here's a list (plus when I started):
  1. German (fall 2006)
  2. French (late 2008)
  3. Latin (29 August 2011)
  4. Italian (9 June 2014)
  5. Dutch (10 August 2014)
  6. Spanish (2 May 2015)
  7. Norwegian (28 May 2015)
  8. Esperanto (28 May 2015)
  9. Danish (24 September 2015)
  10. Russian (2 November 2015)
  11. Polish (10 December 2015)
  12. Hebrew (21 June 2016)
  13. Greek (10 October 2016)
  14. Welsh (3 January 2017)
  15. Swedish (11 March 2017)
  16. Portuguese (11 March 2017)
  17. Czech (12 September 2017)
  18. Irish (15 September 2017)
  19. Turkish (24 September 2017)
  20. Romanian (24 September 2017)
  21. Navajo (8 October 2018)
  22. Hungarian (22 October 2018)
  23. Hawaiian (20 June 2019)
  24. Scottish (27 November 2019)
  25. Finnish (25 June 2020)
  26. Arabic (27 November 2020)
  27. Anglo-Saxon (1 March 2021)
  28. Yiddish (28 April 2021)
  29. Aramaic (1 October 2021)
  30. Gothic (6 November 2021)
  31. Ukrainian (22 February 2022)

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Arabic Level 2 Trophy

I'm still terrible at Arabic, but I reached level 2!