Allie Wagner

This week I used Duolingo to start learning some new vocabulary. I decided to work on the lessons with vocab involving travel. As I did with the last vocabulary that I started to learn, I took notes on words that I didn't know or words that I thought would be useful. I am disappointed in myself because I forgot to bring headphones on the day that I was using the actual Duolingo app so I was not able to hear any of the pronunciations. I tended to think of the words with a French accent which I do not think was very helpful. However, I did realize that the words for bus in French and Spanish are very similar, so hopefully I will at least be able to remember that word. With any luck I will find more words that are familiar or are at least similar to words that I already know. Another thing that I have realized is that I am way better at translating a sentence from Spanish to English than I am at trying to make my own sentences. I am hoping that I will be able to getter better at that...

This week I really tried to go over the notes that I took from Duolingo. I have a list of words and some phrases along with definitions that I carried in my school folder and looked over when I had time. I think that I will continue to do this, but also will try and set aside more chunks of time to sit down and study. While I did look at those notes I didn't actually try and learn anything new or go onto Duolingo very much. That is definitely something that I hope to get better at doing more consistently. I believe that I would be doing a lot better if I practiced and tried to learn new words more consistently.

This week I did more on Duolingo than I had been previously doing. I did a lot of work in the "phrases" tab and feel somewhat confident translating some phrases if they are given to me. However I tried to tell my mom what I was working on and have come to the realization that I do not really have them memorized very well.     Hopefully I will be able to get better memorization of these phrases in the next week. While I was completing Duolingo lessons I was also taking notes on words and phrases which should help me to study. I am finding that I am still trying to replace some Spanish words with French, but hopefully as I study Spanish more I will be able to get rid of that habit.     Another thing that I had trouble with was remembering the accent marks for some of the words. This problem doesn't surprise me because when I first started to learn French I had the same issue. I added a Spanish keyboard to my phone to try and help me remember where to put accent mark...