language bit

 

 

 

I got a little too enthused about the new 'level' assigned in Duolingo.  Although, they've had something like this before, and I've been doing this on this profile since 2017.  I started in French (my L2 from grandmother) and German (my high school required language) and Welsh (pure interest).  I am in the fifth section on French, and nearly finished the Welsh entirely twice now before they added more to it.  

 

I was quite pleased though to see that Czech and Romanian were still so high up there, at 22 and 19.  I focused on them at one time and can still do quite a bit when I switch over to them, but would not call myself fluent enough to even read a kid's book..  My biggest problem with them (and with Welsh, sometimes) is that I forget how to spell things properly when I've been away for too long.  I've been working on Japanese for a while, and it still is only at 21!  But then, I did a LOT of work on Spanish, hit my head against the wall on it for months doing only Spanish and hitting it hard - and after all that work then and all the work since, that is only at 11.  I am well into the middle of the second section of it, but it still doesn't come naturally to me.  Catalan comes more naturally to me than Spanish, but it would, being sort of between French and Spanish.

 

I deduct that it has to be based on how many lessons are actually available for that language - and the percentage of them that I've done.  There are way more lessons available for French and Spanish than any of the others except maybe Portuguese (I read that somewhere). 

All of this because I switched over to French after some of the verb conjugations were going through my head at lunch the other day.

 Probably going to get the little car back tomorrow, it will be expensive, and hope the fix 'sticks' - but will have to make excuses to drive it and that will be a bit difficult when it has fallen over in the past.  The newer vehicle is doing everything it should be doing but the whole reason for having a backup vehicle is exactly what happened when we just had the little car by itself and then it began to have problems.