Allie Wagner

I have come to the conclusion that I definitely preferred learning a language in an actual class like I did with French. I found that it was a little harder to find the resources that I wanted and wasn’t completely sure what would be considered “most important” as I took notes. One thing that actually did end up helping me while adding to my notes was the “tips” section on the lessons on Duolingo. Some of those sections had helpful charts and explanations that were similar to having a teacher for the language. This past week I focused again on going over my notes and trying to memorize more of the words and phrases that I had written down during previous weeks. While I am definitely not at a place where I am fluent, but some of the basic phrases that I practiced this week are easier to remember than they were last week. Even after trying to lean Spanish for eight weeks I am still having a little bit of trouble with wanting to pronounce some of the letters like I would pronounce the...

This week I switched back to just doing lessons on Duolingo, in an attempt to please the Duolingo Owl. I worked more on some of the common phrases as well as worked on lessons for speaking in a restaurant. I learned that the Spanish word for bread "pan" is very similar to the French word for bread "pain" which made is easier to remember that particular word. I have found that other than that the only word that came naturally for me to remember was the word for apples, which is manzanas, though I have no idea why that word stuck and some of the others took a bit more work. At the end of the week I decided to buy an extra lesson with the apps currency that I earned from completing lessons. The additional lesson that I started was flirting, but it ended up being a lot of really cheesy pick up lines. While they were funny to look at and try to translate I do not think that I will ever be using any of them. I did however learn how to ask for someone's name: "có...

This week I again used Duolingo a little bit. In addition to that I took notes on verbs, specifically -ar verbs, with Quest helping me during the class time. The different forms of verbs are very similar to how verbs are changed to match the subject in French. I had a little bit of trouble getting used to how exactly you change the ending if a verb. During the lessons that I completed on Duolingo I noticed that I am still having a little bit of trouble quickly thinking of simple phrases. I often want to translate them into French instead of Spanish. I am still hoping that in this next week I can kick that habit or at least be able to correctly translate the sentence a little faster.