2024 52 Card Project: Week 34: Spanish

[pegkerr]

To my surprise and disappointment, I reached the end of Scottish Gaelic on Duolingo last week. I have not reached any kind of fluency, but I reached the end of the third unit and--whaaaaat? No more lessons?

Scottish Gaelic has been both a terror and a delight. I took a screenshot of this in one of my last lessons. I mean, LOOK at that word for 'forget.'



The sentence seemed an appropriate capstone to my study of Scottish Gaelic.

I hope that Duolingo will expand the lesson plan (they've done that to other languages before) and I'll be able to go back and learn more.

But I needed to pick another language. I picked Spanish. That's what my girls learned in school. My Dad was very proud to be able to speak Spanish. I have some extended family members who are fluent in Spanish. It's a heckuva lot more useful than Scottish Gaelic.

It's also a major language on Duolingo, rather than a minor one, meaning it has a lot more support, which is a bonus.

So, I dove in. Right off the bat, I can tell that my knowledge of French will be very helpful. It's another romance language, so I understand the grammatical structure. (Although there are irritations. Annoyingly, we're back to a gendered language, except the gender isn't a one-to-one correspondence with the other romance language I already know. Car is feminine in French (la voiture) but masculine in Spanish (el carro)).

My plan is to study it for two years (which I plan to do for each new language I pick up, unless I run out of lessons as I did with Scottish Gaelic). The eventual goal is to have seven languages, and at that point, I will rotate lessons so I study each language one day of the week.

Description: Duolingo app interface, overlaid with Duo (the app mascot) holding a Spanish flag. Text reads 'Start learning Spanish now.' Lower right corner: a woman (Peg) smiles at the viewer, wearing a cartoon sombrero.

Spanish



(Compare the collage I did last year for French.)

(What? I never did a card for Scottish Gaelic????)

Click on the links to see the 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 52 Card Project galleries.

Comments

[dreamshark]

Apparently Portuguese and Spanish are mutually comprehensible. At least Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish (according to a Portuguese family I met last week). Which doesn't necessarily mean that the much larger universe of Spanish speakers will admit to understanding Portuguese.