Cathy

For some reason Duolingo really thinks I need to talk about ducks. I apparently have an important one? and it eats sandwiches occasionally.

When they revised their curriculum from "individual words decay daily" to "we have five levels in each skill", I figured: the best way to work with this, for me, is to start at the beginning. Get to the first level in each skill before the first checkpoint. Go back to the beginning, get each skill before the first checkpoint to 2 and proceed to the next checkpoint. Repeat.

I've just hit a checkpoint and gone back to the beginning. If I kept with my study plan, I'd be advancing the skills before the first checkpoint from 4 to 5. I planned to do that, individually, at my usual pace of 3 lessons per day, even with the option to test out of skills. And I did that for two days, and then I did the math. I would be spending a week on variations of "I am a boy. You are a woman." Then another week on variations of "We are eating an apple." It would take me a couple months to get back to my important duck.

There are a few things I could probably stand to be drilled on for a week, even from the earlyish lessons. Those things are not them. Bring on the tests...

(meanwhile I went back to Spanish for a little bit and found myself trying to speak Dutch... and I've essentially stopped the Potawatomi I was doing on Memrise because it wasn't leading towards fluency/understanding of grammar in any way and having a memorized list of phrases wasn't what I wanted. Might have to look at a different course.)