French

I’ve recently been brushing up on my French. I want to go to Paris, but also around to some other sites in France before the end of the year, maybe in August. So I’ve been doing Duolingo for the French. It’s been going well, I could be doing many more units a day, and when I have time I do some more units than normal. But it’s good for a little brain exercise and it’s bringing back more French. I took French from 7th grade, I think, to twelve, so for six years and while I never was fluent. I did pretty well. So it’s been a little bit of niceness each day to do some French and practice it. Duolingo isn’t the best for free speaking, so speaking French may be something else, but reading it is at least a good skill, plus I am thinking about getting a French grammar book so I can speak it. Duolingo doesn’t really teach you any grammar rules or concepts, so I think that would be great!

As for German, I’m also doing Duolingo for German and should, in July, add in some grammar exercises as July is my target for the bulk of my thesis being completed, or at least written. After that it’ll be other chapters to complete and then edits and adding and what not. For June I wanted to focus on the bulk of pure writing, plus I can more easily edit than add.

So all in all on the language front I feel pretty good about it!