Yay yay yay!

[fuzzyred]

I got all the skills in the French tree to level 1! I now have the Golden Owl trophy on Duolingo! For French anyway; now I need to set about acquiring the others.


This is pretty much the highlight of my week. It hasn't been a bad one, just uneventful, and I'm really happy I leveled up all the skills!

Goals for next week: Work on my basket, do some edits, weed the garden. Maybe do a bit more house cleaning, and make a few crochet ruffle balls. (The one I made to test proof of concept turned out great! Thank you ysabetwordsmith for writing the poem where Shiv explains how to crochet the Christmas ornament!)

How are all of you this week? I hope you've been staying well. If you want to share good news, or vent about a crappy week, I'm here. *hugs for all*

Comments

[technoshaman]

I am pushing out the results of what should have been a two-week project a week early, as we speak...

Tu avais passé une semaine très merveilleuse! <3

[fuzzyred]

Go you! It's always nice to get things done ahead of time, and it sound like you had a very productive week. Hopefully it was because you were on a roll, and not because someone was breathing down your neck about moving up deadlines.

Oui! Cette semaine était très bien. J'ai pratiqué beacoup de français.

(Apologies if the French is awful, I do more lessons than actual speaking.)

[technoshaman]

It was good enough French that I understood it... :)

(MORTICIA! You spoke French! :)

Yeah, no, we got over the deadline phase alreddie... it's the poor Network sods that are having to push stuff around.

And tomorrow is FRIDAY!

[fuzzyred]

And that's all that matters. I figure if I can get a language to the point where someone else who speaks it (native tongue or not) can understand it, even if it's not perfect, I can refine it as I go. Heavens know I did enough of this working at Dairy Queen, trying to pick apart the different accents and kludges, trying to figure out what people were asking me.

(I got that reference, even though it isn't first hand knowledge. :)

Yay for you being good on the deadline; I also feel for the poor Network sods XD (Having a deadline and having to rejigger things sucks.)

YES! C'est vendredi! Finalement!

[technoshaman]

> C'est vendredi! Finalement!

*laughter* one of my biggest language skills is being able to suss out what a word means from context... "vendredi" baffed me for about three seconds, until I was like, wait, what's the last thing I... FRIDAY!

One damn minute, Admiral... I thought French was required learning in Canada? Or did you just suck at it on the first pass and decide to fix it?

[fuzzyred]

Context is very helpful. And while my French may not really be serviceable, I do still remember the days of the week, and things like how to conjugate "avoir" and "être".

French is taught in grades 4 through 8 (though I was in the last class that got taught all the way from grade 1), and required in grade 9. Beyond that, it's optional. Now, I did take French all the way to the end of high school, but our school system kind of sucks at teaching second languages, and I probably couldn't have used it for much, even right when I graduated. I always wanted to be able to use it though, so I'm working on improving it.

[ex_flameandsong751]

Yayyyyyyy big congrats on the golden owl!

[fuzzyred]

Thanks! I now have a debate going with myself for the next achievement: Will I reach level two in all the French skills first, or will it end up being Hawai'ian or Polish? XD

[technoshaman]

HAWAIIAN!? COOOOOOL! (Note: Only the nominative, Hawai`i, has the `okina.) I'm nowhere near fluent but I studied it off and on for a couple years about fifteen years ago. Long story.

Polish... is done in a Latin alphabet? Or is it in Cyrillic too?

[fuzzyred]

Thanks for the note, I did not know that. I've only just started, and I'm not sure how good or thorough the Duolingo course will be. I thought it would be cool. :D It is definitely cool that you know some of it. :D

Polish is done with the Latin alphabet, with some accents and the "ł" (I don't know it's name, but it sounds like a "w"). It has far too many w's and z's for the comfort of an English speaker though. XD And some veryyyyyy detailed grammar.

[shadowhive]

Aww yay! I’ve not been on Duolingo in.... ages oops. Good luck with those things!

My week’s been ok but I’ve been drained a lot soo

[fuzzyred]

Thanks! And I get the not being on Duolingo for ages. That happened to me for most of last year.

Oh, that's no fun. Being drained makes everything harder. Hopefully you have more energy next week.

[shadowhive]

Yeah I started it awhile back and then just... faded from it

It really does, I’m hoping I’ll be less drained next week but we’ll see

[fuzzyred]

That can happen. The nice thing is that everything stays there and you can return to it any time you want, if the urge strikes you. My attention kind of cycles through things, so I have a tendency to binge something, then forget about it a few months, then come back to it (if it's something I like.)

Fingers crossed for good things for you. *sends a pack of twelve spoons, hoping they survive the internet*