Monday, February 3, 2025
I hit 3000 days on Duolingo today. I did the math so you didn’t have to – three thousand days is about 8 years and 2.5 months. I started doing Duolingo before we took a trip to Germany. I wanted to see if I could remember any of the high school/college German I took. I was surprised how much I remembered! I did not do it every day for over a year, maybe two, then decided to start a streak.
Streeeeeeak!
I switched to Italian, Welsh, Spanish, Portuguese, music, and math over time, but always came back to German pretty quickly. After all of this time, I don’t speak German very well. I understand quite a bit. I understand a lot of grammar, but I am never going to speak it to a native speaker. I find it very complicated. I really like doing it. I will definitely get to 3001 tomorrow.