Brief weekly update

[fuzzyred]

I sort of watered the flowers this week (probably not as often as I should have, but they aren't dead or wilting, so I think I'm ok), but I didn't weed. I maintained my streak on duolingo, and surpassed my daily goal, though I did do less than last week. Did a tiny bit of editing, worked on my basket a little, and saw a friend and his partner last night (first time meeting her but she was really nice and it went well.)

I would like to weed this weekend, and make progress on Duolingo, my basket, and edits. I'm feeling kind of zapped though, so I might spend all weekend on the couch (I have a few Netflix recommendations, so that wouldn't be the worst thing.)

On a related note, for those who use Duolingo, do you get word banks in your lessons/tests? Duo seems to default to them for me even though they never had them when I first started. It feels a tiny bit like cheating to use the word banks when testing out of a skill, but I frequently mess up phrasing while still catching the meaning of the sentence, so I don't feel too guilty about using them. (And I do try to translate it in my head before looking.)

Comments

[ex_flameandsong751]

I get word banks some of the time but not all of the time. I don't, IMO, think of it as cheating because it's still possible to get it wrong (either with wrong words from the bank or the wrong order; in the Norwegian course specifically there are some sentence translations which feel completely out of order to me as an American English speaker and where I've gotten it wrong even though I had all the words correct but had them out of order, like really minor stuff), and a lot of times in the courses that's your first introduction to a word or sentence so you're coming into it cold and have to choose between unfamiliar words in the bank. Just my $.02.

[warriorsavant]

No word banks, but I'm at a fairly early level. I do put words I'm trying to learn into Anki. (If you're not familiar with Anki, it's a really good electronic flashcard like program. https://ankiweb.net/about )