#34hlc

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I'm seriously considering stopping the 34 hour challenge early. Duolingo is good as a supplement for other resources. Using it as the only resource? No. For me it's getting really boring, it's not enjoyable, I'm not learning much and there's a lot of what I've learned already that I don't understand. I've done just over 10 hours on Duolingo and I think that's where I'm going to leave it.

Off topic but related - I went to Waterstones a few days ago and bought a book to help me learn the basics of German over the course of 3 months. I think I'll start using that and I hope it'll reignite the passion I had at the start of the Duolingo challenge.

[seoulightstudies]

20.04.07

Finally got to my first milestone on Duolingo and unlocked stories! Maintained my 7 days streak and feel even more motivated! My work started again now, and I have wayyy less free time, so I have to separate subjects I study by days. But 20 minutes of Duolingo a day keep that owl away.

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She forgot she has to keep y'all updated? Yeah, she did

34 HOURS OF LANGUAGE CHALLENGE

So I'm in hour 26, if I'm not wrong, and I'm using this method where you do a first section of Duolingo units, so they all turn to blue, and while you work on the next section you keep going back to the old section, to turn them up to green (level two). Then you start a new section while simultaneously working on the previous two, and so on.

My first section is already on level three !!

And I've done like half of section three

This explanation is literally so bad but you can watch this video and probably understand what I meant:-)

This language is really fun !! And the course (german for spanish Speakers) is Very complete, even though they stopped the notes and explanations like after the first section (wtf, Duo??)

But yeah, I like how it's put together and the words and sentence patterns I've been learning :-)

[michellehasseb]

• 34 hour Language Challenge •

I’m participating in the 34 hours language challenge this month!

For 34 days, I’ll spend 1h on Duolingo learning Dutch. I’m currently in level 2, working on:

Er: Level 4

Jobs: Level 4

Modals: Level 3

Home: Level 3

Body: Level 2

To better keep track of my progress, I’ve integrated a cute little chart in my bullet journal to write down what I’ve learned each day.

At the end of a week, I’ll do a little post in Dutch, talking about something, just for practice!

[polyglotfantasy]

34H Langblr Challenge SPANISH Update #1

So, I'm officially 10 full hours into my 34 hour Langblr Challenge for Spanish.

As I've been studying more in a casual way, this took me 6 days roughly (even though in the past I'm more prone to do 8-10 hours of studying per day).

So far I feel really confident with the basics and that I can at least introduce myself and describe my surroundings and my thoughts in a clear albeit limited way! My conjugations are still dodgy as hell tho umm 😢 But I'm working on them slowly and steadily, and tbh I'm finding that my B2 level in French has kind of catapulted my forward so far. While Spanish and French are very different, the similarities in vocabulary, grammatical structures and sentence structure at times has helped me excel way quicker than anticipated.

My goal for the next 10 hours of the challenge is to improve those basic skills I've been developing and develop my vocabulary further! It's clear to me my first 10 hours have been extremely vocabulary based because I'm of the opinion that learning grammar without the fundamental vocab to back it up and see it in action is useless, at least for my learning style. So I'm now going to attempt to introduce a more grammatical focus to my vocab/phrase immersion in the next 10 hours and see how I fare!

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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. 

[sprachebisse]

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. 

[34hourlanguagechallenge]

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!

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