Who else does Duolingo?
I posted about Duolingo in the summer of 2018, when my mother and sister introduced me to it. I finished the German and French courses that summer, I think, and then I took a long break from it. But I went back to it last spring when the pandemic narrowed everybody's entertainment options, and I currently have a 372-day streak going. I am working most often on Greek these days, and thinking idly that it would be really cool to buy a plane ticket to Greece once I finish the course. (This course of action is extremely unlikely, but still fun to contemplate.)
When I was in college I wanted to take all of the language courses I could possibly take, but a person can't really get a degree that way. So I took some French and some German and some Latin and some classical Greek. Duolingo allows me to flit from one language to another in exactly the way that my college self longed to do. Dutch? Sure! Esperanto? Finished that course too! How different are Swedish and Danish? Let's check it out!
A person could direct plenty of valid criticisms at the Duolingo program, but I'm not really looking for optimal language pedagogy. I'm looking for language play, I guess, and Duolingo offers that in abundance.
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