#lingodeer

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Study days: 26/31

Studytime in total: 3D 12H 42MIN⏱️

Tasks completed: 243✅

Genki chapter 1 + 2 and workbook, learned 120 kanji (grade 1 plus few from grade 2) reading N6 stories, vocabulary on Memrise, Lingodeer app lessons

Lingo deer

I've just done some basic lessons in French and Japanese, but it (In my opinion) seems better than using duo! It's much more descriptive of each lession + NO LIVES SYSTEM!!!! And you can do as much or as little as you want! You don't have to retake levels, but you can if you missed something!

March 26, 2023 • Tuesday

Hello it me. As I wait for the next semester, I have decided to pick up on my French again! This time I have started a language journal, and also have three sources — Duolingo for speaking, YouTube for grammar and vocab, and LingoDeer for review.

I'm planning to be as consistent as possible — because I have a lot of emergency trips to my hometown in the next few days, I'm not sure if I will be able to attend the first few classes of the upcoming semester. But hopefully, I'm not too behind.

I'm recovering from my terrible pain days. I'm a little bummed that we're travelling again before I can recover fully, but hey life isn't fair. I need to try and get as much rest as possible.

🎧 firstavenue_bedroom — Dylan Rockoff

I created this blog because I am constantly trying to stay motivated and keep up my studies, so I kept searching for a discord dedicated to LingoDeer and found nothing, and the blog by the official LingoDeer creators only has 5 posts from 2019 ( and their tiktok is no longer active either! but I'm not that ambitious even though I want them to have all the love in the world ). I love the leader board feature and the ability to follow people but it feels a bit empty and lacking connection, so I hope through this blog and the discord server we can make up for that!

If you'd like study buddies, casual chats or competitive motivation, join the discord!

Thank you for reading, and for loving learning!

Please keep up your hard work and studies!

6.5 year duolingo streak ended!

To be fair I should’ve ended it a long time ago. That major update that removed the forums completely ruined the dutch course. It replaced all of the helpful guides that teach you the rules before you start a new subject with only example sentences… no explanations or nothing now!

Why is ‘de jongen’ correct but ‘de water’ wrong? Who knows?? When should you use ‘zwem’ vs ‘zwemt’ vs ‘zwemmen’? We ain’t telling you anymore!!!

This made tying to learn korean as a complete beginner unnecessarily tedious, borderline impossible without having to google things every 5 minutes!

And now they’re bringing an ‘explain my answer’ feature which is like the forums but shit since is uses ai instead of real people and costs way more than their current premium membership to use! Not to mention they replaced 10% of their contractors with ai.

So yeah, good stuff :)

I think while my writing definitely needs work, it still looks hekkin cute 💕

also, it turns out knowing the basics of how to compose a Chinese character came in handy here when needing to proportionally write out the characters in their respective grids to maintain symmetry. If there's something about your character that just.. looks off, this is a very common reason as to why.

Chinese is much tougher because sometimes you need to fit multiple mini-characters in a quadrant. Honestly it's kind of an art to make it look good.

In this case, the worst it gets is a character like "왔" whereas Chinese can have *see above*