This is great, I've actually been learning Portuguese for ages, so will give some of these a go! I paused the intensity of it during my MA so still feel I'm right at the beginning (I think I'm on like level 35 on duolingo and they just upped the course to 200 😂 they never used to have this many levels). I always learn a bit of the language when I go away, a lot of it falls out of your mind when you get back but I've found the collective accumulation really helpful. The other year I travelled to Montenegro and so the Slavic languages I'd learned bits from actually really came in useful when my Montenegrin/ Serbian ran out - similar to Latin languages, I don't know Italian well at all but when I visited Italy the other year Portuguese extended my vocabulary a lot when listening.
That's so sweet that you do this together! I also studied chess on Duolingo for a while but now I'm going all in on Portuguese before my summer trip. French is on my list too, along with German eventually, but Dutch sounds incredibly hard, so kudos for that one!
lol, my background is Dutch. While I could never speak it, I have childhood memories of my parents, grandparents and other relatives doing so and that’s likely helped.
A have vague memories of many of the words I’m currently learning.
This is great, I've actually been learning Portuguese for ages, so will give some of these a go! I paused the intensity of it during my MA so still feel I'm right at the beginning (I think I'm on like level 35 on duolingo and they just upped the course to 200 😂 they never used to have this many levels). I always learn a bit of the language when I go away, a lot of it falls out of your mind when you get back but I've found the collective accumulation really helpful. The other year I travelled to Montenegro and so the Slavic languages I'd learned bits from actually really came in useful when my Montenegrin/ Serbian ran out - similar to Latin languages, I don't know Italian well at all but when I visited Italy the other year Portuguese extended my vocabulary a lot when listening.
Super
I love Duolingo. My wife and I started on it a year ago, learning Spanish just for fun.
A year later, she has now mostly pivoted to learning French and I’ve moved on to Dutch.
We’re also both learning chess and play live games against each other on the app.
Time very well spent.
That's so sweet that you do this together! I also studied chess on Duolingo for a while but now I'm going all in on Portuguese before my summer trip. French is on my list too, along with German eventually, but Dutch sounds incredibly hard, so kudos for that one!
lol, my background is Dutch. While I could never speak it, I have childhood memories of my parents, grandparents and other relatives doing so and that’s likely helped.
A have vague memories of many of the words I’m currently learning.