Yesterday I tried out the Blood Orange Cordial, which I really like. I made shortbread cookies with it. I think we've already devoured about half the batch.
>> I like all of your suggestions for learning more French (or any language) and I'll definitely keep those in mind. <<
I'm happy I could help.
>> The way Duolingo is set up, each language is broken into skills; frex "animals," "family," "future tense," etc, and each lesson has 5 levels.<<
That's logical.
>> My hope was to get all the skills up to level 4 (and I indeed have many of them there already), but seeing as how a lot of the skills are at level 1, that is quite a bit of work. Especially since each skill has about 5 lessons per level.<<
It sounds like Duolingo is aiming to make things stick, not just rush through like school often does. You'd probably do better with subgoals than with one really big goal, when it's already broken down into convenient pieces like that. Either work on things one at a time to your target level, or work on getting all of it to level 2, then 3, then 4. Aiming for everything at level 4 when there's a lot of it jumbled across different levels may be overwhelming rather than inspiring.
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Re: Go you!
Date: 2022-01-24 02:11 am (UTC)Yesterday I tried out the Blood Orange Cordial, which I really like. I made shortbread cookies with it. I think we've already devoured about half the batch.
>> I like all of your suggestions for learning more French (or any language) and I'll definitely keep those in mind. <<
I'm happy I could help.
>> The way Duolingo is set up, each language is broken into skills; frex "animals," "family," "future tense," etc, and each lesson has 5 levels.<<
That's logical.
>> My hope was to get all the skills up to level 4 (and I indeed have many of them there already), but seeing as how a lot of the skills are at level 1, that is quite a bit of work. Especially since each skill has about 5 lessons per level.<<
It sounds like Duolingo is aiming to make things stick, not just rush through like school often does. You'd probably do better with subgoals than with one really big goal, when it's already broken down into convenient pieces like that. Either work on things one at a time to your target level, or work on getting all of it to level 2, then 3, then 4. Aiming for everything at level 4 when there's a lot of it jumbled across different levels may be overwhelming rather than inspiring.