Archive of ‘phone & tablet apps’ category

16
Apr
2023

Well, it’s been an admirable effort so far…

categories: personal, phone & tablet apps; word count: 311 words

I thought that I was going to be happy continuing to stay in the Emerald League since I found out that one of my friends had passed away on Easter Sunday, but… sometime between yesterday evening and now I’m in the top seven of the Emerald League and on track to be promoted from it unless someone manages to bump me down several places at the last possible minute (or two, or three). German has become slightly less difficult to learn as I’ve continued to make progress in it, although I continue to be a Rookie in both French and German. I’m pretty sure that I know more French and German than I ever learned Spanish two courses into high school, but that might have something to do with how horrible the district I graduated in is. With the exception of the most rudimentary things, I haven’t managed to hang onto anything that I “learned” the whole way through secondary school… and I did most of my own teaching myself, to myself, on my off time because it was like asking any of my teachers for help grievously inconvenienced them. Next year I’m sure people from my graduating class will begin planning what’s supposed to be our twenty-year reunion, and I’ve continued to make it clear that I don’t want to be invited to this because I don’t even want to be contacted by members of my graduating class. It’s actually in my permanent record at the high school that I’m not to be included in any alumni activities or contacted for reunions, or… well, contacted for any reason. The principal put that note in herself and so far, with graduation, I haven’t been contacted by anyone from my graduating class for almost all of the time I’ve spent a high school graduate. It is what it is at this point.

15
Apr
2023

I’ve decided to learn a new language on here!

categories: phone & tablet apps; word count: 112 words

Since so many Duolingo learners learn more than one language, I eventually chose to start learning German (again) on here. I took two years worth of Spanish in high school, not learning anything that I actually remembered after the fact because my high school experience was that forgettable, and wanted to diversify the languages that I could understand since Spanish is spoken fairly widely around where I live. If I choose a third language, Spanish might be it. I’m not sure though. I don’t even know if I’m going to choose a third language. I guess I’ll see how it goes balancing learning French and German and make my decision later on.

30
Mar
2023

Okay, the stuffed owl is cute, I’m not going to lie.

categories: phone & tablet apps; word count: 228 words

Don’t ask me how this is even happening, but I’ve moved so far up in the Sapphire League (or is it league?) on Duolingo through reviewing because of Gabapentin brain and prednisone brain that I’m currently slated to move up from there. For some reason, French makes a whole lot more linguistic sense to me than Spanish does, and I live in an area where Spanish is the second most widely spoken language… not to mention the fact that I took two Spanish courses in high school and apparently remember nothing from them now. That’s about par for the course for my whole experience in high school here in this district though, so I can’t say that I’m even remotely surprised. At some point in the future I might add another language to that, but only once I start to get really comfortable with French… if I ever get to that point. I do have to say that I really like the improvements that have been made to the app since the last time I used it, as it’s become even more intuitive, and much easier to use than it was before. It’ll still take me longer to learn things, but I do enjoy it!

I’d actually try to upload the bird here, the picture that I have of it, but my hosting is giving me some trouble.

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