Duolingo Progress with Hindi and Yiddish

 Spotlight on Hindi

Hindi -  नमस्ते (namaste)

English - hello (I bow to you)

 Reflection: I have completed 8 lessons across unit 1 and the start of unit 2.  I am still getting familiar with both the writing and the sounds. Duolingo says Unit 3 will be when the learner starts to form basic sentences and talk about food. See below which shows how many of the Hindi alphabet I have mastered or rather how many more I have to work on :-) For a reflection in this progress blog post, I decided to look up a Hindi greeting I have already come across in Yoga "Namaste".

Using the old Duolingo stats they used more in the first 10 years, I have already earned 10/192 crowns ( about 1%) , and completed 14/153 (about 10%)  lessons. Lexemes which equate to word parts (smaller than words as some languages also require knowledge of particles) I have completed 58 out of 656. (not yet 10%) 

 We must keep in mind that Duolingo courses vary smaller (like Navajo) to larger ( like Norwegian - which is something like 16 times bigger in depth than the smaller courses.  Also, French and Spanish have more speakers and more learners who want to learn them, so they have been developed and updated regularly.

    Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - hello German - Guten Tag Danish - Hej Dutch - Hallo Swedish- Hallå Norwegian - Hallo Italiano - ciao  Francais - salut Romanian-Buna ziua Haitian Creole - bonjou Esperanto - saluton Latin-Salve Welsh - helo Irish - Dia dhuit Scottish Gaelic - halò Zulu - Sawubona Hawaiian - aloha Swahili-mia Czech - ahoy Hungarian-Szia Polish-Witam Turk-merhaba Indonesian - halo Japanese-こんにちは Kon'nichiwa Korean -안녕하세요 annyeonghaseyo Hindi - नमस्ते namaste Yiddish - העלא hela Ukranian-привіт pryvit Vietnamese- xin chào Greek- Χαίρετε Chaírete Russian привет privet

   Spotlight on Yiddish

Yiddish -  नमस्ते (namaste)

English - hello (I bow to you)

 Reflection: I have completed 7 lessons. For a reflection in this progress blog post, I decided to look up a "mazel tov" meaning 'good luck".

DuolingoMe.eu is an unofficial statistics page run by volunteers where you can check your progress. see above.

Using the old Duolingo stats they used more in the first 10 years, I have already earned 7/364 crowns ( about 10%) , and completed 14/382 (about 10%)  lessons. Lexemes which equate to word parts (smaller than words as some languages also require knowledge of particles) I have completed 75 out of 2297. (not yet 10%) 

  Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English -  good luck German - viel Glück Danish - held og lykke Dutch - veel geluk Swedish- lycka till Norwegian - lykke til Italiano - buona fortuna  Francais - bonne chance Romanian-mult noroc Haitian Creole - bon chans Esperanto - bonŝancon Latin-bona fortuna Welsh - pob lwc Irish - ádh mór Scottish Gaelic - beannachd leat Zulu - ngikufisela inhlanhla Hawaiian - Pōmaikaʻi iā ʻoe Swahili-bahati njema Czech - Hodně štěstí Hungarian-sok szerencsét Polish-powodzenia Turk-iyi şanslar Indonesian - semoga beruntung Japanese-幸運をKōun o Korean -행운을 빕니다 haeng-un-eul bibnida Hindi - आपको कामयाबी मिले aapako kaamayaabee mileYiddish - זאָל זייַנ מיט מאַזל zol zayn mit mazl Ukranian-Щасти
Shchasty Vietnamese- chúc may mắn Greek- καλή τύχη kalí týchi Russian морковь morkov

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