Author archives: languageimmersions

Not having much time, I just felt compelled to stick to my daily goal on Duolingo to do Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Turkish exercises. Other than that, I’ll follow the news (listening and reading skills) and do some actual speaking practice during the rest of the day.

Hello, Duo! To get me started today, I’ll let the green owl help me. Diving into Arabic lessons He is generous and he is your husband, Judy. هُوَّ كَريم وَهُوَّ زَوْجِك يا جودي. Also, it’s interesting to realize that before ever learning some Arabic, I wouldn’t even have known where these Arabic words ended, only knowing spaces between words in […]

During my personal language immersion last week I learned some Swedish, Spanish and Chinese. Learning Swedish by watching (SVT) news and TV series and (YouTube) videos To practice some Swedish listening, I watched this video about Swedish exceptionalism and news episodes from Nyheter pa latt svenska, Nyheter Direkt and I downloaded the SVT Språkplay app […]

08:00 De Moien hunn ech um Lëtzebuerger Radio nogelauschtert. = In the morning I listened to Luxembourgish radio. 09:00 Etterpå hørte jeg på radio i Norge. = After, I listened to Norwegian Radio: NRK Radio P1 10:00 Efteråt lyssnade jag på radio på svenska. = Then, I listened to the radio in Swedish. 11:00 Depois […]

08:00 Duolingo lessons Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Greek and Italian. Just those 5 today to reach my daily goal to maintain my streak. 09:00 Escoltava les notícies de la ràdio catalana. 10:00 J’ai ecouté radio Montpellier en francais sur radio.garden pendant une heur 11:00 Jeg hørte på radio i norge. 12:00 Durante el almuerzo he hablado […]

Early morning Chinese restaurants and Greek cheesecake 你好！Yes, my morning -after the gym- started with Chinese. And next, I moved on to Greek. This word amazed me: Following Arabic, Swedish and Russian After, I just did a random selection of languages on Duolingo, as long as my next lesson is in a language from a […]

A new day of immersing myself into the languages I want to learn! After some second level owling in Catalan about my elephant eats apples and third or fourth level Swedish girls asking him for his phone number, in my third Duolingo lesson at beginner level Russian I came across meals such as завтрак, breakfast. […]

Polish on Duolingo Last night, 8 minutes before the day officially ended, the little green owl praised me for my late night work, I finished an exercise without mistakes, I reached my daily goal on Duolingo and leveled up the Scholar achievement (learned 2000 new words in a single course, in that case being Chinese). […]

Esperanto on Duolingo As it appeared that my last lesson from yesterday was gone, or actually not saved cause the dishwasher started to spit out foam, I felt bad that I had to redo it. But with didactics in mind, I now embrace the possibility to recap it [insert vomit emoji here]. So I copied […]

Croatian The first language on my list of high-quality translations, a tricky one for me in itself to kick-off with. I could assess from most words what they meant, since I know the source text pretty well, it being my own introduction. ☺ Scandinavian languages Then, I just listened to the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish […]