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TASK HELP: Fall Challenge 2022
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25.7 - Delicious Dee's Task: It's Duolingo Time
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Nice task Dee!! I have forgotten about this app. I tried Duolingo a few years ago lol I was trying to improve my Spanish and it seemed just to easy so I quit. Maybe I should try it again.
Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "Nice task Dee!! I have forgotten about this app. I tried Duolingo a few years ago lol I was trying to improve my Spanish and it seemed just to easy so I quit. Maybe I should try it again."Some of it is def easy but I like how it builds on stuff - I took 4yrs of high school French and conjugating verbs still gets me
Ha Ha! I just started Duolingo for Spanish...wanted to refresh my language skills. It wants you to do it everyday, but I took the weekend off. Oops! Lost my learning streak and now starting to rebuild it.
Bea wrote: "Ha Ha! I just started Duolingo for Spanish...wanted to refresh my language skills. It wants you to do it everyday, but I took the weekend off. Oops! Lost my learning streak and now starting to rebu..."I typically do a lesson in the am as soon as I get up then I’ll do a couple more in the evening
Good idea to add it to the morning list of things to do. Evening, I am usually on the phone and do not have it as an app.
For Option 2B .... can the word be a proper name (e.g. JANE)?
Book Concierge wrote: "For Option 2B .... can the word be a proper name (e.g. JANE)?"Any word as long as the letters exist in the two languages you use
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Sound of Rain (other topics)L.A. Woman (other topics)
Sunken Shadows (other topics)
In keeping with the theme of self-improvement that my previous tasks this year have been, its time for some Duolingo love. If you aren’t familiar with Duolingo its an app based language learning program that you can use on your phone. It walks you through a series of lessons and levels that get more complicated as you go. The goal is that with 15 minutes of practice a day, you can rapidly acquire language skills.
For this task, you will pick ONE option and read Book A and Book B for that option.
My current Duolingo learning streak is 237 days (as of September 1). So each of your books must exceed 237 pgs.
Option 1:
Book A. Duolingo was launched as a private Beta service on November 27, 2011 and went public June 19, 2012. Read a book that was FIRST published between November 27, 2011 and June 19, 2012.
Book B. Throughout your lessons on Duolingo, Duo (an Owl) helps you through. Read a book where the letters DUO or OWL can be found in the title (not subtitle).
Required: State which letters you are using.
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DUO: The Sound of Rain
OWL: L.A. Woman
Option 2:
Since I’ve been using Duolingo, I’ve experimented with a few different languages before defaulting back to French which has been my primary language. These languages have included Japanese, Ukrainian and Greek.
Book A. Choose one of those three languages: Japanese, Ukrainian and Greek, and read a book where the author's initials (all) appear in that single language word.
Book B. Using the two remaining language words, read a book where a word of at least 4 letters in the title can be made with the letters of those languages. Letters may be used as often as they appear.
For example, if you pick Greek for book A; then you can use the letters of JapaneseUkrainian for Book B.
A: Kendra Elliot
B: SUNKEN- Sunken Shadows
Option 3.
The vast majority of my time using Duolingo has been focused on refreshing and then extending my French language skills. I’m currently on Unit 14 of over 100.
Book A. Read a book at least 75% set in France and/or from an author who was born in/lives in France.
Required: Include a reference if the setting and/or author's status is not evident in the GR record.
Book B. Read a book that is between #1 and #14 in a series that has more than 20 published books. The series name and number must be indicated in the GR title listing in grayscale parentheses following the title or grayscale italics above the title.