My motivation is pretty much dead, but I’m still throwing in my two exercises per day for each of the two languages. \u00a0Today I got 7 lingots for a 70 day streak, so I am mildly curious as to how long I will be able to keep this going.<\/p>\n
In all fairness, I am getting better, at French in particular. It is just that I am getting better at something that I have no actual use for or fascination with.<\/p>\n
Back when Duolingo claimed that I was 25% fluent in French, I joked with my friends that it missed a decimal point, it should have been 2.5% fluent! Now I am up to 42%, and it is still obviously embarrassingly optimistic. I would never imply in front of a native that I was anywhere near that fluency, as I still struggle with the weekdays. But the difference between imaginary fluency and real fluency is shrinking. It is certainly more than 4.2%, perhaps even more than 14.2%, although I would not bet my last \u20ac on that.<\/p>\n
I have no estimate for fluency in Turkish, which is OK since I have no fluency either. I am still struggling with fairly basic topics. I am at level 10, versus level 11 in French. This is because I have generally put more work into Turkish especially at the beginning, and levels measure only how many exercises you have completed<\/strong>, not your fluency. I knew that Turkish would be harder, that was why I picked it actually.<\/p>\n I still use the Android app pretty much all the time for Turkish, but lately I have done French on the computer. The “weight lifting” exercises are harder on the PC, with more writing exercises instead of constructing sentences from a list of words. The latter is a type of exercise that only exists on the app, and the same goes for matching up word pairs from a list. Another curious difference is that if I get a translation question wrong on the app, it will show up again at the end of the exercise, exactly like the first time. I believe this was not always so, and it is not how it works on the PC. But I kind of appreciate \u00a0it in Turkish, because at this stage I sometimes just have to memorize things and hope I will understand them later. Well, if I keep plodding along, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My motivation may be dead, but I am still alive, long may it last. And so I do my four exercises per day. Continue reading