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]

At least with my lessons, it does seem that they throw the word bank at you less and expect you to be able to type the translation more around level 4, and then even more at level 5. I personally would struggle a lot more if I didn't have the use of the word bank the first few levels and had to do it all without help, but that's just my brain and how I learn and probably also the idiosyncracies of the Norwegian course.

Congrats on the 30k XP! That's very impressive. I'm hoping to get there myself. :D

[fuzzyred]

That is good to know. Most of my skills (that I'm working on) are level 0 or level 1 right now, so that might be why. But French is throwing new exercises at me now, I think because I have tested out of a lot of skills, and most of my tree is level 1 or higher. I now have exercises where they ask me what part of a sentence means, either in English, or with other French words (English example: "will buy" is equivalent to "going to buy"). I would definitely be having a harder time without out the word bank too. For sure there would be a lot less tired progress on duolingo; thinking from scratch is *hard*.

Thanks! Over 23,000 of that is in French O.O I'm sure you will make it! You seem to be doing a lot lately, and have a lot of languages you want to learn. :)