For the last three\u00a0days I have added one 10-XP unit each day, slowly making my way through the basics of possessives and “to have” in Turkish. Evidently Turks prefer not to use their verb for “to have”, but instead like to say things like “My one cat doesn’t exist” instead of “I don’t have a cat”. Actually that’s pretty cool, I could get used to that.<\/p>\n
My daily quota (which I think is the standard, as I don’t recall setting it) is 20 XP a day, so I have to do one more 10-XP exercise. In practice I usually do a few more. I almost exclusively use the dumbbell icon now. The exercises there are harder than when repeating an individual learning unit. I will probably mostly use those for learning new things, and for the first repetition of it the next day. After that, I rely on Duolingo’s database to figure out which are my weakest points. It seems to be pretty good at that! Especially on the website. The app is easier. I am able to reliably do dumbbell exercises on the website too now, although it takes longer since I make more mistakes. Especially when writing in Turkish, which is no small feat. I miss the intelligent keyboard from the smartphone, which will propose valid Turkish phrases when I type something similar without accents.<\/p>\n
I still continue my French streak too. French is noticeably easier, so I generally only do my 20 XP a day, or perhaps 30. I \u00a0do one dumbbell exercise, and if all the circles are golden after that, I do 10 XP of new material. Otherwise I continue with dumbbells.<\/p>\n
I could definitely ramp this up more, but I don’t want to get in the situation where I have to spend time I don’t have just to avoid losing everything. So I am taking it slowly for now, until the basics have settled in my brain at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the last three\u00a0days I have added one 10-XP unit each day, slowly making my way through the basics of possessives and “to have” in Turkish. Evidently Turks prefer not to use their verb for “to have”, but instead like … Continue reading