Slowly continuing my Spanish studies, mostly Duolingo for the past few months. I think I have about 200-250 days in total but the streak broke when the damn owl website decided to stop letting me log in to my first account
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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My current streak is 240
I'm learning Arabic, Danish and Portuguese. I study everyday but not very intensily. My progress is very slow, I should try harder.
That's ambitious! Are you at different stages in them?
Yeah I am. I'm almost fluent in Danish. Somewhat good in Portuguese and Arabic is the hardest, but that's because it's not Indo-European
That makes sense. It's a curious mix. Any reason for choosing those three? I mean, you're well set for learning loads of other languages as you've gone Germanic and Romance as well as Arabic. Was that part of the plan?
I'd say I'm almost fluent in Spanish now. I think I could pick up another language without getting confused if I could find the time for it. Lately it's been hard enough to find the time just to maintain it. Don't know if it would've been very productive to try to pick up a third or fourth language before now.
Danish because of family, Portuguese because I used to go to Portugal a lot and Arabic because of general interest
I’m Spanish learning I’ve been doing one lesson a day in duolingo for a while, and I’ve finally started doing Language Transfer everyday. I intend to attempt reading the Spanish version of ‘the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe.’
And how is your study going, afellowkid?
Well, honestly my language studies are not very active at the moment as I have been focusing on other things. However I hope to start up a language study routine again soon, sometime this month.
For Spanish specifically, I need to engage more with things in Spanish. I can read/listen to things fairly comfortably in Spanish so I just need to actually do so way more often than I currently do. I think I'll try establishing a routine of doing that too rather than just doing it occasionally by chance as I have been.
I have times like this. It's been hard for the past month or so tbh. In the past, I've just watched ½ an hour or more of the TV in Spanish (usually dubbed shows as the Spanish voice acting is easier to understand and you'll be well understood if you pick up their accent(s)). Lately, though, I go for low effort audio books. Non-fiction can work better for this because the vocab isn't as flowery. Don't put too much pressure on yourself.