I know an answer to the Manx question!! Say Something In (the other Welsh program I adore—in many ways a much more useful program than Duolingo, in terms of getting you actually speaking a language) offers Manx! And Cornish. And Dutch, as I'm about to mention to Tanita in this thread. :)
You learn by listening & repeating & stringing phrases together. I've tried just about every language program on the market over the decades (!) either for myself or with the kids, and SSI is my absolute favorite. I love the community/friends/streaks aspects of Duolingo & I appreciate that I've learned a ton of vocab there, but SSI is where I feel like I've really learned to put sentences together in a functional way.
Oh wow! Congratulations! I think I remember when you started with Welsh, many moons ago.
In another millennium, I spent Thanksgiving in Cardiff. Turns out they don't really celebrate, so I ate dinner at Burger King and went to the natural history museum. All of the displays used far away, forgotten Cardiff as the center of the story of evolution. The world felt very big and very small at the exact same time.
Congrats despite the update (that terrible tech notice).
I'm close to 250 days in a row of Swedish and have hit a dead-boring section on science. It's a slog. I've studied Swedish before via books and CDs because I thought I would be teaching there. I loved that year and a half of reading about Sweden, watching Swedish series and films--and did then find myself thinking in Swedish and it's coming back.
Ooh, I had a similar experience with Welsh—the last few units were lots of tech-related vocab and I just wasn't feeling it. Much preferred the super relevant units on dragons, parsnips, and archdruids! Heh.
I've moved into spirituality and ghosts and witches and warlocks. Interesting category. I can imagine the vocab will be very helpful when I go to Sweden. :-)
🎉🎊Congratulations! 🥳👏🏿 What well-deserved fanfare. I can't wait to check out the "Say Something" program after this round of Dutch. I'm on the second Duolingo go round of that, and I feel like I'm cementing my vocabulary this time around. I may actually be ready to try something new after, so I'm also looking at Glossika, too. I need all the languages and all the language apps!
I've been eyeing Say Something In Dutch myself. For sometime in the future, I mean. I speak intermediate-ish German, so I think Dutch would be a fun language for me to play with. So many little bits of overlap. I hear you on all the languages & all the apps!
I know an answer to the Manx question!! Say Something In (the other Welsh program I adore—in many ways a much more useful program than Duolingo, in terms of getting you actually speaking a language) offers Manx! And Cornish. And Dutch, as I'm about to mention to Tanita in this thread. :)
https://en.saysomethingin.com/manx/level1/challenge1
You learn by listening & repeating & stringing phrases together. I've tried just about every language program on the market over the decades (!) either for myself or with the kids, and SSI is my absolute favorite. I love the community/friends/streaks aspects of Duolingo & I appreciate that I've learned a ton of vocab there, but SSI is where I feel like I've really learned to put sentences together in a functional way.
I look forward to hearing what you think of the program if you decide to give it a try!
I am wildly impressed - with you and your daughter!! What an amazingly beautiful family culture❤️
I'm still smiling weeks later! So sweet of her.
Oh wow! Congratulations! I think I remember when you started with Welsh, many moons ago.
In another millennium, I spent Thanksgiving in Cardiff. Turns out they don't really celebrate, so I ate dinner at Burger King and went to the natural history museum. All of the displays used far away, forgotten Cardiff as the center of the story of evolution. The world felt very big and very small at the exact same time.
Gosh, Kortney, I love this. Big and small at the same time.
Congrats despite the update (that terrible tech notice).
I'm close to 250 days in a row of Swedish and have hit a dead-boring section on science. It's a slog. I've studied Swedish before via books and CDs because I thought I would be teaching there. I loved that year and a half of reading about Sweden, watching Swedish series and films--and did then find myself thinking in Swedish and it's coming back.
Ooh, I had a similar experience with Welsh—the last few units were lots of tech-related vocab and I just wasn't feeling it. Much preferred the super relevant units on dragons, parsnips, and archdruids! Heh.
I've moved into spirituality and ghosts and witches and warlocks. Interesting category. I can imagine the vocab will be very helpful when I go to Sweden. :-)
🎉🎊Congratulations! 🥳👏🏿 What well-deserved fanfare. I can't wait to check out the "Say Something" program after this round of Dutch. I'm on the second Duolingo go round of that, and I feel like I'm cementing my vocabulary this time around. I may actually be ready to try something new after, so I'm also looking at Glossika, too. I need all the languages and all the language apps!
I've been eyeing Say Something In Dutch myself. For sometime in the future, I mean. I speak intermediate-ish German, so I think Dutch would be a fun language for me to play with. So many little bits of overlap. I hear you on all the languages & all the apps!
How very thoughtful! So sweet! 🐳
She's a sweet one, that girl. :)
Much like her cousin!!
I love all of this so much!
how very sweet!
BUT. I am in denial about Rose being 26. That's just not possible.
She's really still one of those little girls running around catching fireflies, right? Right?
I like a good pun as much as the next person but those cupcakes should have been decorated with DRAGONS!!!
Melissa- The whale cupcake is my favorite one. And what did we all do before duolingo? ;) Hope you're well this week? Cheers, -Thalia