Duolingo Progress including milestones in Indonesian & Swedish

    I am consolidating Latin and have finished another Unit in Swedish and Indonesian.

Can you recognise any words that I learned?

I have finished Unit 14 out of 44(32% of the Duolingo course) in Indonesian: talk about your body, an nouns. I have met 58% of the Indonsian words in the course.

I have finished Unit 19 out of 43 (44% of the Duolingo course)  in Swedish: talk about changes, discuss events. I have met ALL of the Swedish words in the course.

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

I am interested Swedish language because of the food.  I love going to the IKEA department store when visit the capital city 400 km from where I live and checking out their little food market as well.

Swedish -	Hon har träffat en underbar ny man

Part of speech	Translation
	English - She has met a wonderful new man.

 Reflection: ny means new.  It sounds like a lot of other langauges word for new. nuovo in Italian, neveau in French.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - new German - Neu Danish - ny Dutch - nieuwe Swedish- ny Norwegian - ny Yiddish -נייַ nay Italiano - nuovo  Francais -nouvelle Romanian-nou Haitian Creole - nouvo Esperanto - nova Latin-novus Welsh - newydd Irish - nua Scottish Gaelic - ùr Zulu - okusha Hawaiian - hou Swahili-mpya Maori hou Czech - Nový Hungarian-új Polish-Nowy Ukranian-новий Turkish Turk-yeni Indonesian - baru 

Japanese-新着 Shinchaku Korean -새로운 saeloun Hindi -नया naya Vietnamese- Mới Greek- νέος
néos Russian новый novyy

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Duolingo Progress - spotlight on Swahili

I am making progress with Scottish Gaelic, Swedish and Swahili

Can you recognise any words that I learned?

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

I am interested to learn Swahili. So far, the first Swahili word that I have come across in English is Sawubona.  I remember singing it when I was in the university choir.  I gathered it was African, but now know it is a greeting.

Swahili -	Mimi ni mwalimu

Part of speech	Translation
	English - I am a teacher

 Reflection: I like the simple pronouns like mimi for I. It seems verbs don't change much, maybe they are in a constant form for different pronouns. I like the different spelling combinations. LIke lots of consonants together.

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - you German - du Danish - du Dutch - jij Swedish- du Norwegian - du Yiddish - איר ir Italiano - tu  Francais - tu Romanian-tu Haitian Creole - ou Esperanto - vi Latin-vos Welsh - ti Irish - leat Scottish Gaelic - thu Zulu - wena Hawaiian - oe Swahili-wewe Czech - vy Hungarian-Ön Polish-ty Ukranian-ти
ty Turk-sen Indonesian - Anda Japanese-あなたAnata Korean -너 neo Hindi -तुम tum Vietnamese- bạn Greek- εσείς eseís Russian ты ty

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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 :-)

Swedish Learning Log - everybody

      

Rule: Swedish has the same word order as English.

Swedish  -Alla är glada.

English - Everybody is happy.

Refleciton: I wonder if everyone, everybody and all are all interchangeable like English.'

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Swedish Learning Log - definite article

    

Rule: In Swedish the definite article 'the' is included in the noun as one word.

Swedish - Vi har breven. (We have the letters (1 word))

English - We have the letters.

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Swedish: Vi har böken.

English: We have the books.

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