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2026 52 Card Project: Week 38: German
Sep. 25th, 2026 11:50 amI started studying Spanish on Duolingo at the end of August 2024. I have studied every single day since then. Nope, I haven’t missed a single day of practice, usually practicing two times a day, for a total of about twenty minutes to an hour a day.
I’m really glad for my time with Spanish, PARTICULARLY with how helpful it proved to be with Metro Surge. I can read signs in Spanish when I’m out and about. I have reached CEFR B1 level, which means I am supposedly fluent enough to be able to get the gist if I watch a television show in Spanish.
I always said I would give it two years and then move on to the next language. I have decided to move on to German. I have enough languages under my belt now that I think I can do some switching around, as I want to retain my fluency. So the tentative plan at this point is German M-F and then perhaps French on Saturday and Spanish on Sunday.
My streak on Duolingo is 1188 days (about 3.25 years of language practice, every single day). Is it a perfect system? Am I fluent? No and no. But I went from knowing no Spanish whatsoever to where I am today, and I’m genuinely proud of the accomplishment.
Compare my earlier collages for French and Spanish. Somehow, I never did one for Scottish Gaelic.
Image description: Background: German flag. Top: the word 'Duolingo.' Left center: Duolingo owl in German lederhosen. Lower left: cartoon beer and wurtz. Lower right corner: a picture of Peg, smiling, with a cartoon Tyrolean German hat.
German
Click on the links to see the 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 52 Card Project galleries.
I’m really glad for my time with Spanish, PARTICULARLY with how helpful it proved to be with Metro Surge. I can read signs in Spanish when I’m out and about. I have reached CEFR B1 level, which means I am supposedly fluent enough to be able to get the gist if I watch a television show in Spanish.
I always said I would give it two years and then move on to the next language. I have decided to move on to German. I have enough languages under my belt now that I think I can do some switching around, as I want to retain my fluency. So the tentative plan at this point is German M-F and then perhaps French on Saturday and Spanish on Sunday.
My streak on Duolingo is 1188 days (about 3.25 years of language practice, every single day). Is it a perfect system? Am I fluent? No and no. But I went from knowing no Spanish whatsoever to where I am today, and I’m genuinely proud of the accomplishment.
Compare my earlier collages for French and Spanish. Somehow, I never did one for Scottish Gaelic.
Image description: Background: German flag. Top: the word 'Duolingo.' Left center: Duolingo owl in German lederhosen. Lower left: cartoon beer and wurtz. Lower right corner: a picture of Peg, smiling, with a cartoon Tyrolean German hat.
Click on the links to see the 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 52 Card Project galleries.
