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2024 52 Card Project: Week 34: Spanish
Aug. 31st, 2024 05:06 pmTo 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.
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.
(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.
