My Brother and a mutual friend is using Duolingo to learn some Esperanto. I hope they both succeed and have a lot of fun with it, I am sure having fun with them. Craig and I have sat in our yard and learned some lessons and reviewed together. His quizzes to me have been helpful, it is cool to hear and understand what someone else is saying in another language. An experience I have never had before. (Other than pig Latin and cheap oriental).
Duolingo has added spoken questions to the course. While to me, as a Komecanto(beginner), it seems rather fast and it was quite a shock to me hearing it at that rate for a while. I must admit I am picking a bit more of them up now after several more lessons, and A LOT of replaying the questions from them. I have Special Difficultly with close sounding words such as ni and li. I am going to try some earphones an see if I can pick sounds out clearer by not using my PC speakers. Also a another factor in not picking up the words, is the fact that I am just learning these words. It is hard to pick out a word, when you do not know the word well in the first place. LOTS of replaying seems to be the fix for that ;)
I am growing more pleased with my progress, although that accusative -N is still my greatest nemeses along with my lousy memory. It looks like I will be continuing with learning Esperanto, especially now that I have invested in a real dictionary, and I now have a couple language buddies.
Update: August 7,2015
I reached the 10th level and the 3rd and last checkpoint with 2278 xp points. From the 3rd checkpoint to the end of the course is the biggest section yet. I still have a lot of work ahead of me.
You might want to know that there are a number of Esperanto books on eBay at the moment.
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