Duolingo Progress with Polish & Turkish

 Spotlight on Polish

I have been enjoying working on Polish. I  had a very dear friend from Poland in year 6. It is so nice to have an opportunity now as an adult to try to learn Polish.  We have recently reconnected over facebook since she has not changed her name and I have a married name now.  I am so pleased to have facebook to keep in touch, now she lives in another state and she has shared photos of her little baby.

Polish. - Ten pomidor jest dobry.

Part of speech holo	Translation
	English - This tomato is good.

 Reflection: I love that tomato is similar to the Italian pomodoro, meaning golden apple. it has taken me longer to get used to dobry as good.  It seems to have many forms and I am still working out if there are variations for each gender (masculine, feminine  and possibly neuter  as well as singular and plural forms of the endings.  a quick read on the internet says 

"In the plural, the masculine personal nouns are distinguished from all others, which collapse into one non-masculine personal gender (niemęskoosobowy)." 

So that simplifies thing a little, there is gender in the singluar.  But all plurals are non-masculine.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - tomato German Deutsch- Tomaten Danish Dansk- tomater Dutch Nederalnds- tomaten Swedish Svenska- tomater Norwegian Norsk bokmål - tomater Italian Italiano - pomodoro  French Francais - tomates Romanian Română-rosii Haitian Creole kreyol ayisyen- tomat Esperanto - tomatoj Latin-Lycopersicon Welsh Cymraeg- tomatos Irish Gaeilge- trátaí Scottish Gaelic Gaeilge- tomadan Zulu isisZulu- utamatisi Hawaiian ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi- ʻōmato Swahili Kiswahili-nyanya Czech čeština- rajčata Hungarian Magyar-paradicsom Polish Polski-orapomidoryz Turk Türk-domates Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia - tomat Japanese 日本Ni hon-トマトTomato Korean 한국어 hangug-eo 토마토 tomato Hindi हिन्दी hindee टमाटर tamaatar  Yiddish יידיש eydishטאמאטע tamates Ukranian українська ukrayinsʹka-помідори pomidory Vietnamese Tiếng Việt-cà chua Greek Ελληνικά Elliniká- ντομάτες

ntomátes Russian Русский Russkiy

помидоры pomidory

   Spotlight on Turkish

I am interested in learning Turkish as our local vet is rom Turkey. It is so wonderful to live in in a place with lots of different nationalities including Filipino and South African.  I am look forward to if Duolingo adds Tagalog and Afrikaans to the list of languages coming in the incubator soon.  And being a language nerd I would also like to try Khmer and Icelandic one day if I get the opportunity.

Turkey - Onlar elma yer. (they (an) apple eat)

English - Where is grandfather?

 Reflection: the pronoun they starts the sentence. the indefiniate article is implied (an) it seems like articles are only included for definite aritcles 'the' so if the writer omits any article it must ne a 'an'. the verb goes at the end of the sentence like Germand does. I wonder if this is often or always.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - apple German - Deutsch - Apfel Danish Dansk- æble Dutch Nederalands- appel Swedish Svedska- äpple Norwegian Norsk Bookmål- eple Italian Italiano - mela  French Français - pomme Romanian Română-măr Haitian Creole kreyol ayisyen - pòm Esperanto - pomo Latin-malum Welsh  Cymraeg- afal Irish Gaeilge - úll Scottish Gaelic Gàidhlig na h-Alba - ubhal Zulu -isisZulu apula Hawaiian ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi - ʻāpala Swahili Kiswahili -tufaha Czech čeština - jablko Hungarian Magyar-alma Polish-Polski jabłko Turkish Türk -elma Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia- apel Japanese-日本Ni hon りんご Ringo Korean 한국어 hangug-eo 사과 sagwa Hindi हिन्दी hindee -सेब seb Yiddish יידיש eydish- עפּל epl Ukranian українська ukrayinsʹka-яблуко yablukoVietnamese Tiếng Việt- táo Greek Ελληνικά Elliniká- μήλο mílo Russian Русский Russkiy яблоко yabloko

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Duolingo September Progress includes Zulu, Haitian Creole, Irish, Swedish and Czech

Learning Focus in September: trying to level up in Duolingo (jump each language to the next increasing Duolingo level)

I am trying different ways to keep me on track around work and family and keep my motivation up.

My September Challenge

This month, I am working through languages I haven't had a chance to revisit for a while.  I am dabbling in them until I level up.  Each subsequent language level is harder to obtain because each level is a much higher number of XP.  Level 25 is the highest level.

Trying out the new Duolingo update

I have enjoyed revisiting languages once again and getting into their mode or head space.  I am also enjoying this in combination with the new interface in Duolingo.   I have been a Duolingo member since begin on their waitlist 10 years ago.  I love the new path way and how it organises a set path of mini steps to try in bite size pieces as well as revision sets of mistakes, listening and speaking that can be forgotten about if like me you often play Duolingo in waiting rooms and near others so you never want to to turn the volume up in case it annoys other people.  The speaking and listening exercises remind me to concentrate on these skills when I am away from others.

So far, I have levelled up in 9 Languages across Turkish, Polish, Russian, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Czech, Finnish as well as the newest language Zulu.  I have worked hard and am enjoying every minute of Level 11 Zulu.

I wonder how many more level ups I can work towards by the end of September? I don't want to set a goal, because my family and work come first, but I celebrate every achievement along the way. 

Dabbling across more than 30 languages in my long term goal at my own pace. 5 languages I have already reached Level 25: Italian, French, German, Spanish, Welsh, however as Duolingo evolves and updates more lessons and units are being added to more courses. So, 38 - 9 levelled up recently - 5 at level 25 = 24 languages to work my way though.  At the moment, I am cycling through 3 langauges daily, usually a Romance language, a Germanic language (as the two language families I have the most experience/background in) and one from another family.

Next in line: 

•  Romanian, Latin,
• Norwegian*, Finnish, 
• Indonesian, Chinese, Korean
• Hawaiian, Navajo, Swahili
• Arabic, Greek, Yiddish

*Norwegian is a huge course

Level 6 vs Level 23 comparison

*Norwegian is a huge course and is going to hard to be level up from Level 23 to level 24. This next level needs over 1200XP to be completed. Be aware, lower levels like my Hindi is only on level 6, so needs only 150 XP to level up.  I think this tiered systems is effective because it allows you to concentrate in bite size amounts when you first meet a langauge and lets you get spaced repetition until you do the next lesson.  Whereas, with higher levels, you can concentrate for longer periods when you are used to more grammar and more vocabulary and can take on more complicated sentences. I certainly notice how much more alert you are and how quickly you fatigue with a new language as a beginner.

Hence, I have currently completed 10 trophies but Spanish and French as 2 of the largest courses with the most learners have been significantly updated and grown.

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Edit

Next 10 level ups completed: Esperanto,  Scottish Gaelic, Swedish, Japanese,  Hungarian, Hindi, Dutch, Haitian Creole, Hebrew and Vietnamese this week.

Now 19 levels up in September :-)

Polish Learning Log - word order, noun, adjective

       

  

Rule: :Polish has the same word order as English.

Polish - On widzi tamto dziecko.

English - He sees that child.

Reflection:  Looking at the word order,  pronoun verb other noun.  So, let's try another sentence with that: 

Polish - Widzę czarnego kota.

English - I see the black cat.

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Polish Learning Log - indefinate article

    

Rule: Often in Polish the indefinate article "a" is omitted or implied.

Polish - Koñ je chleb (a)horse eats bread)

English - A horse eats bread.

Polish Learning Log - indefinite article

   

Rule: Polish has an implied indefinite article (a).

 

Polish  - Kon' je chleb, (a) horse eats bread.

English - A horse eats bread.

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