Duolingo Progress with Spotlight on German

 I am making progress with Dutch, Italian, Zulu, Yiddish, German, Welsh, Chinese, Navajo

Can you recognise any words that I learned?

Can you translate any of these words to English or your target language?

I first learned German in early high school.  I enjoyed the run of the words and the way longer words are made. I struggle with the gender of nouns and the verb cases like dative.

German -	Weihnachten ist wunderbar

Part of speech	Translation
	English - Christmas is wonderful

 Reflection: I love that wunderbar has the word wonder in it.  It reminds me that English is in fact a Germanic language when it doesn't feel very close it it sometimes.  I find lots of similar words in Romance languages likes Italian and French.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - wonderful German - Weihnachten Danish - jul Dutch - Kerstmis Swedish- Jul Norwegian - jul Yiddish - ניטל nitl Italiano - natale  Francais - Noël Romanian-tu Haitian Creole - Nwèl Esperanto - Kristnasko Latin-Nativitatis Welsh - Nadolig Irish - Nollag Scottish Gaelic - Nollaig Zulu - Ukhisimusi Hawaiian - Kalikimaka Swahili-Krismasi Czech - Vánoce Hungarian-Karácsony Polish-Boże Narodzenie Ukranian-Різдво Rizdvo Turk-Noel Indonesian - Natal Japanese-クリスマス Kurisumasu Korean -크리스마스 keuliseumaseu Hindi -क्रिसमस krisamas Vietnamese- Giáng sinh Greek- Χριστούγεννα Christoúgenna Russian Рождество Rozhdestvo

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Duolingo Progress with Chinese & Japanese

Spotlight on Chinese

I have been slowly working on Chinese.  It is more daunting an alphabet to learn than Japanese because Hiragana seems like baby steps from Romanji before you learn Katakana and Kanji.

Chinese - 高兴	happy,  glad  Kuàilè de

Part of speech	Translation
	English - happy, glad

 Reflection: 'I found a number of translations for happy, this seems to match the chinese in Duolingo.  So I guess it is Cantonese not Mandarin.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - happy German - glücklich Danish - lykkelig Dutch - Vrolijk Swedish- Lycklig Norwegian - lykkelig Italiano - felice  Francais - heureuse, heureux Romanian-fericit Haitian Creole - kontan Esperanto - feliĉa Latin-felix Welsh - hapus Irish - sásta Scottish Gaelic - toilichte Zulu - ngijabule Hawaiian - hauʻoli Swahili-furaha Czech - šťastný Hungarian-boldog Polish-szczęśliwy Turk-mutlu Indonesian - senang Japanese-ハッピー Happī Korean 행복하다 haengboghada Hindi प्रसन्न prasann Yiddish - גליקלעך gliklekh Ukranian-щасливий shchaslyvyy Vietnamese-vui mừng Greek- χαρούμενο charoúmenos Russian счастливый schastlivyy

   Spotlight on Japanese

I first tried Japanese in year 6 at primary school.  My older sister was learning it at high school and later during her university. I was homeschool by my mum that year.  I found her hiragana flash cards to learn while I was sitting in the splits.  Trying to multi task, so I would be distract from the discomfort of stretching my legs to deepen my split while sitting on a pile of phone books with sharp corners.

I can see now that I am in my thirties the knowledge has stayed with me, so I have remembered the first part of hiragana and now need to work on the next years with the double lines ( i think they are called tentens) and the little circles used to make the other syllables like ta -> da, and ka -> ga etc.

Japanese - 名前はなんですか Namae wa nandesu ka 

English - What is your name?

 Reflection: I have learnt that putting 'desu ka' pronounced 'des ka' at the end of a sentence makes a question.  It seems like, isn't it?

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - name German - Der Name Danish - navn Dutch - naam Swedish- kaka Norwegian - Navn Italiano - nome  Francais - Nom Romanian-Nume Haitian Creole - non Esperanto - nomo Latin-nomen Welsh - enw Irish - ainm Scottish Gaelic - ainm Zulu - igama Hawaiian - inoa Swahili-jina Czech - název Hungarian-név Polish-Nazwa Turk-isim Indonesian - nama Japanese-名前Namae Korean 이름ileum Hindi -नाम naam Yiddish - נאָמען nomen Ukranian-назва nazva Vietnamese- Tên Greek- όνομα ónoma Russian имя imya

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