How do I learn Italian language with Duolingo?
Some strange motivation
I needed a new challange, and I
was also interested in Italian language. I like the melody, the country, the
food, the supercars of Ferrari and Maserati, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill
movies. I definitely have some strange motivations,
right? J
Doing multiple courses that have Italian
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| I do four Italian courses combined with English, German and Spanish |
I started with English-Italian
course: Italian for speakers of English, so English is the first language and
Italian is the second. A day later I took on all possible Italian Duolingo
courses that have something to do with the languages that I know at any level
so far. I completed all possible trees and reverse-trees combining English,
German, Russian, Spanish and my mother tongue, Hungarian.
So, I looked for Italian courses
that include the above languages and - in addition to the above mentioned
English-Italian - I found:
Italian-English
Italian-German
Spanish-Italian
What is my daily goal in my Italian studies in Duolingo?
I do one topic in each of the
above mentioned 4 courses every day. I try to do the longest possible – the one
that has the most lessons - when I have
more time, or, to have a shorter one for the next day, LOL!
Revising Russian with Crown Levels
As there is no Russian language
available yet in connection with Italian, I also refresh my Russian skills. I
started to revise my Russian-English course by completing all the Crown Levels.
To be honest, I cheat a bit in this course by testing out and using a lot of
Google Translator for it. I will complete this course in this way, but I will
not do it in other Duolingo Russian courses, as I feel that my Russian skills
need a lot more practise than just ,,testing out”.
Addicted to gold: going for Level 5 Crowns
Duolingo Crown Levels are a real
challange with really a lot of lessons in each topic, so it will definitely
take some time to complete all my language trees. No matter, my goal is to
reach Level 5 in every Duolingo course, because I want to see all my trees in
that beautiful golden colour I got used to with the previous system before
Crown Levels. It was enough to learn by hiting the ’practice’ button to get the
golden circles back.
When do you practise Duolingo?
I do one part of my language
lessons first thing in the morning, even before walkingmy dogs. I get up a bit earlier for this. I find ’brain training’
better in the morning than physical exercise, as my muscles needs some time to
warm up and my bones, especially vertebrae needs to get into place after lying on
the bed for hours. I read it somewhere that the vertebrae needs about 2 hours
of walking around doing ones daily routine to ”re-organize” and I think it
makes sence. This is also true if someone really does a proper warm-up before the
serious workout
or bike-ride, etc. For decades I used to workout or go and ride BMX Flatland first thing in the morning, very early at dawn, and then I
did my daily dose of Duolingo language learning later on. Recently I have been
doing sets of exercises after each Duolingo lesson, not to get too sleepy
sitting in one place, and getting the workout done at the same time. It depends
on my mood how I workout, but I do something every day at home. This saves time for my business as well.
How many daily XPs do I achieve now?
With the four types of Italian
courses and the Russian-English Crown Level fortifying course my daily Duolingo
points are high above 1000 recently. Once I made more than 2500, but that was
with some extra diligence above my daily dose and some Duolingo Stories. I also
completed all sets of Duolingo Stories in Spanish and German. When there is a
new set out there, I also complete on Spanish and one German every day, until
the new set is golden too.
How much time does my daily Duolingo language learninig take?
Well, I have never measured the
time, but it is about 2 hours a day, depending on the lenght and difficulty of
the topics and how tired I am. It was summer holiday when I started this brutal
amount of daily Duolingo practise. School starts soon, and I will have less
time, but I want to keep this up until all my Italian trees are complete. Then
I am going to apply a new strategy, definitely including levelling up in Crown Levels
in all my languages. I am not thinking about taking on any new language until
this is ready.
What helps me to complete this huge amount of daily Duolingo?
Wearrin Super Duo attire gives me
super-owl powers! J
I also keep sipping my favourite mushroom coffee. J
