Five-ish months of Chinese

[petrea_mitchell]

My daily Duolingo sessions have been paused for travel twice now, so I don't have an exact count of days anymore. But it feels like I'm making progress of some sort. I've made it through checkpoint 2 of 4 and I continue to accumulate vocabulary. For instance, just yesterday I got a new word that lets me say the most useful phrase I have managed to construct yet: 我会用筷子 (I am able to use chopsticks).

And when I say "say" I of course mean "type", because I'm still not getting any real pronunciation practice in. I stopped using Hello Chinese after a few days and should probably get back to it. The local community college had a Chinese conversation class this past spring; if they offer it again I may sign up.

I finally converted to a paid Duolingo account, seeing as I've managed to stick with it this long. I had long since developed banner blindness for the ads, but since it seems to be actually teaching me things that are going to be useful, it deserves my money.

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[kalmn]

Oh! Awesome. I am also doing chinese, but I need to remember to do it. My kids also either tell me that my accent is horrifying and to stop talking, or else they talk over me so duolingo hears them and not me. (They think it's helpful. I try to explain, but it hasn't worked yet.) I am still in "my name is and my last name is" hell.