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@34hourlanguagechallenge
34 Hour Challenge: Day 17
I made my goal today! 150xp! I learned 11 lessons and did 4 rounds of review, to make my tree a shiny gold. Take a peek:
As you can see, I have a ways to go, but I’m getting there! Thanks to everyone who’s given me their support.
Here’s some of my favorite sentences thus far:
Youngsters?? Really?
The longest sentence I’ve done so far:
I’m currently on hour 11 of the 34-hour challenge with French, and I’ve kind of hit a mental block, where I’m lacking inspiration, but I’m pushing through and I’ve continued my lessons. I’ve learned a lot too!!
These are just a few pages from my work!! I take notes on everything I learn.
34hlc- 28 May 2018
I started learning Italian on Duolingo and completed the first 8 lessons. I’ve no previous experience of the language but have found it helpfully similar to French. I intend to spend an hour a day for 34 days (similar to the 34 hour language challenge) although I intend to not only use Duolingo and will look for other Italian language resources.
34 Hour Language Challenge
Hello! I’m beginning the 34 hour language challenge with my goal to know 1 semester worth of information about the French language!! I’m so excited and I will be documenting every week on how the studies are going! @34hourlanguagechallenge
Bonne Chance!
Finished the 34 hour challenge
This took me a lot longer than I originally planned, but I’m finally done - 34 hours of Dutch on Duolingo. I’m around halfway done with the tree (between Checkpoint 3 and 4).
Did it bring me as far as a semester? Let’s take a look.
I wrote down every new word I learned and ended up on roughly 840 words - not bad! According to the general estimate (x), you need arond 500 words for A1 and 1000 words for A2, which puts me somewhere between the levels.
So where am I being placed? I took the test on this website.
Not going to lie, the result kinda shocked me. I thought the test was pretty hard and I guessed a lot of the answers. [Note: It’s a multiple choice test on grammar and vocab, so I don’t get a listening level.] I also tried this one, which gave me a rating just over A2.
I was pretty skeptical when I first read it, but now I do think that Duo’s claim is at least not entirely wrong. However, it seems more like an estimated average among languages.
Let’s compare: In my first semester of Finnish we learned around 400 words, only half as many as the lessons I got done in 34 hours gave me. And here’s where the idea of average comes in. Most if not all Germanic language classes taught in Germany estimate one semester to get from A1 to A2 and so on. My university has four semester classes for both Swedish and Dutch and the last is called B1/B2. Finnish however has a schedule of two semesters to get to A1 and two more for A2, based on the simple fact that Finnish is hard. It’s entirely unlike any language your average German would be exposed to, in a different language family, with completely different vocab and grammar.
The 34 hour challenge was designed for languages you have no experience with. I don’t have any experience with Dutch (I knew exactly three words when I started), but I think I got much much further than I would have if I had picked, for example, French, which I have experience with - I learned it in school for four years but can barely form a basic sentence. Dutch is just so very similar to German, even more than I expected previously. It overlaps partially with Swedish, but also (that was the real surprise tbh) with the dialect I speak at home.
Tl;dr: 34 hours on Duolingo brought me to an alleged A2/B1 level. Duolingo’s claim doesn’t seem completely unsustainable, although I assume it’s averaged. I’m taking an A1 Dutch class this semester and while I know most of what we’re learning already, it’s good to build up the grammar systematically and have a Native give context to vocab. I’ll also try to finish the Duolingo tree. I’m still not very happy with the new crown update, but after they changed the colors to match the levels it’s not as overwhelming anymore. I doubt that I will get my skills golden though, considering it takes an ridiculous amount of time and effort to do so and it just repeats the same sentences after a while. Who knows, maybe on the next concert or festival I’ll even be able to have a little chat with people.
Congrats on finishing the challenge and thanks for sharing your experience.
What is the 34 Hour Language Challenge?
The well known language learning site, Duolingo, claims that 34 hours on Duolingo is equal to one semester of a language course at a university. I had to test this theory! So, I came up with the idea for a 34 hour language challenge, which I will document on the blog 34hourchallenge.blogspot.com.
If you would like to do a 34 language challenge as well, here are the rules.
1. Pick a language you are not familiar with, but are interested in learning.
2. Spend at least one hour a day studying the language on Duolingo until you’ve reached 34 hours.
3. Take a placement test in the language.
4. Let me know how your challenge went. I’ll add you to the “34 Hour Challenge” honor roll.
My mom is a huge fan of Memrise. So she decided that we should take this challenge to the next level. She is going to spend 34 hours learning a language on Memrise. We are both going to take a placement test at the end of the 34 hours. So, if you want to choose Memrise over Duolingo, that works too.
For the Memrise challenge, the rules are the same as for the Duolingo challenge.
You can comment here if you want to be added to the “34 hour challenge” challenger’s list for Duolingo or Memrise. Just let me know which one! I can add your blog name, your Duolingo/Memrise username. Or both!
After you’ve completed the challenge, you can be added to the Honor Roll.
If you decide to blog about the challenge, please link me back to your blog so I can check it out as well!
On Tumblr simply reblog this post or reply with a note saying you accept the challenge. Don’t forget to let us know how it went!
#34hlc is the official tag
I will try it on Memrise! Going for Norwegian :)
Go go go!
What is the 34 Hour Language Challenge?
The well known language learning site, Duolingo, claims that 34 hours on Duolingo is equal to one semester of a language course at a university. I had to test this theory! So, I came up with the idea for a 34 hour language challenge, which I will document on the blog 34hourchallenge.blogspot.com.
If you would like to do a 34 language challenge as well, here are the rules.
1. Pick a language you are not familiar with, but are interested in learning.
2. Spend at least one hour a day studying the language on Duolingo until you’ve reached 34 hours.
3. Take a placement test in the language.
4. Let me know how your challenge went. I’ll add you to the “34 Hour Challenge” honor roll.
My mom is a huge fan of Memrise. So she decided that we should take this challenge to the next level. She is going to spend 34 hours learning a language on Memrise. We are both going to take a placement test at the end of the 34 hours. So, if you want to choose Memrise over Duolingo, that works too.
For the Memrise challenge, the rules are the same as for the Duolingo challenge.
You can comment here if you want to be added to the “34 hour challenge” challenger’s list for Duolingo or Memrise. Just let me know which one! I can add your blog name, your Duolingo/Memrise username. Or both!
After you’ve completed the challenge, you can be added to the Honor Roll.
If you decide to blog about the challenge, please link me back to your blog so I can check it out as well!
On Tumblr simply reblog this post or reply with a note saying you accept the challenge. Don’t forget to let us know how it went!
#34hlc is the official tag
Guess who’s learning German and found this challenge straight off the top :’D
Great timing!
So, I did hour one of the 34 hour language challenge. I chose Romanian, because I’ve wanted to learn it for a little while but never actually took steps to do so. I figured this is a decent way to start that.
My favorite new word of the day is liliac which is the Romanian word for bat, like the animal.
Good luck with your challenge and I hope you come out as a Romanian pro!
Okay, I’m gonna try out the Duolingo 34 hour challenge!
I‘ll go for Dutch since that’s the target language I have the least experience with. The plan is this: I do Duolingo for half an hour every day, then I write down the vocab in my notebook, and if there’s grammar I’ll write that down too. That’s not 100% the challenge, but I will only use Duolingo as a source, so let’s see how this goes!
Good luck with your Dutch!
What do y'all think of using #34hlc for the tag to make it easier to find posts about the 34 hour language challenge?
If anyone has finished the challenge, please tag me so I can give you props.
Is anyone currently doing the 34 hour language challenge? Has anyone finished it?
34 Hour Challenge: Day 18
I did 70 xp today! I learned all of Adjectives (six lessons) and a round of review to polish off my tree. I’m still recovering from being sick, so I’m off to bed. Let’s hope for a perfect day tomorrow!
Ancestry.com should allow users the option to link their family tree with other users if they share a common heritage, with the goal of assembling a massive global interconnected ancestry chart.
Wikitree is trying to build a "one world family tree" and it is pretty awesome.
Me: learns a word in my target language, repeats it 1000 times. Still manages to forget it. Me: is corrected once by a native speaker for this same word. Never forget it again! Stuck in my mind forever
34 Hour Challenge: Day 11-13
So I’ve only gotten 30xp per day these past three days. And all my xp was for doing some practice, with no new skills. Even so, my tree is starting to decay. Tomorrow I will have to do some real work to get my tree gold again, and push forward with the learning of new words and phrases.
34 Hour Challenge: Day 9
Today has been my best day so far! I didn’t do any review, but I learned 20 lessons (200xp). This puts me at about half the tree. Soon I can start to use the language in real life! Here’s my tree:
