Level 6 Welsh

Level 6 Welsh

I might as well take this opportunity to explain that I'm learning Welsh in a different way compared to the rest of my Duolingo languages.  I practice it only during commercials when I watch television shows.  Of course, this means I practice it only sporadically (lately I've been behind on things, so I've been practicing my regular languages during commercials as a way to save time), but I thought I'd try doing it this way, at least for a while.

1250-Day Streak

I have an order of magnitude more lingots than actual dollars now.

Level 10 Hebrew

The mobile version of Duolingo no longer shows the language you level up in, just the number of lingots you get for levelling up.  But this was for Hebrew.

Der erste Beitrag

I feel like the primary purpose of this blog will just be to catalogue when I level up in languages on Duolingo, but hopefully I'll have some more interesting posts about language and language learning too.

For the first fourteen or so years of my life, I was mono-lingual (English).  But then I took German in high school.  My ancestry is completely German, so I felt a bit foolish that I didn't know my ancestral language.  Then since it seemed that all of the smart kids in high school were taking French, I added that my junior year.  By college, I felt like I was missing out because I didn't know Latin.  Running across some Italian quotes in some books I was reading one summer made me feel ignorant for not knowing Italian.

By this point (2013), I had discovered Duolingo, and, basically, this whole thing snowballed.  In 2015 alone, I started learning six languages (three in one month!).  Currently, I'm up to fourteen foreign languages, and I figure that by this point, I might as well try to surpass Noah Webster's twenty-six.

Here's a list of languages I'm studying, along with (sometimes rough) dates of when I started them:

1. English (native language)
2. German (fall 2006)
3. French (late 2008)
4. Latin (August 2011)
5. Italian (9 June 2014)
6. Dutch (August? 2014)
7. Spanish (2 May 2015)
8. Norwegian (28 May 2015)
9. Esperanto (28 May 2015)
10. Danish (24 September 2015)
11. Russian (2 November 2015)
12. Polish (10 December 2015)
13. Hebrew (21 June 2016)
14. Greek (10 October 2016)
15. Welsh (3 January 2017)