{"id":159,"date":"2019-09-30T23:43:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T23:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/?p=159"},"modified":"2019-09-30T23:43:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T23:43:43","slug":"micro-escalation-in-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/2019\/09\/30\/micro-escalation-in-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-escalation in exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed this in Japanese, which is the only hard language I study now. The last few months, each of the 10-point exercises start with something easy, and then gradually ramp up with the last questions generally being the hardest. Until then, there was a long time when you could randomly get only beginner exercises or only advanced ones. Now you get a bit of each, each time, even though there is still some random variation in just how hard they get.<\/p>\n<p>This change makes difficult languages less intimidating, as I know I won&#8217;t get stuck on an exercise that will take long time and be very frustrating. Even so, I am not really making progress on Japanese, just keeping it warm, while I get distracted by other shiny things. Like Latin, which just came out in beta. But that is a story for another day, if ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed this in Japanese, which is the only hard language I study now. The last few months, each of the 10-point exercises start with something easy, and then gradually ramp up with the last questions generally being the hardest. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/2019\/09\/30\/micro-escalation-in-exercises\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-japanese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/duolanguage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}