100 days of Duolingo regularity

    I have been regular for 100 days now, and also only have 8 more lessons to finish the course.  I spent that last few days getting my tree gold for a 100 day screenshot. 

   I am in no rush to finish the last 8 lessons of the course, as I still need much practice with the lessons that I have already done.  There is also a lot of meat to study in the last few lessons I have yet to finish.   I am ok with taking my time in finishing the course in order to learn the language the best I can,  and also not to stress myself with trying to learn too much too fast. 

   When I do finish, I would like to keep the course reviewed for practice.  I also would like to turn the audio back on to see if now that I have had more practice with the language I will be able to pick out the audio.  

September Update

   Mi estas nivelo dek kaj laboras pri la sana lecionoj.  Mia Frato estas nivelo ses nun.

   I am still level ten and currently finishing the travel skill lessons and then on to Affixes 2. When I finish the tree I will really need to refresh my lessons.

   UPDATE: I have decided to go ahead and review  and re-golden my lesson tree. I need to review and the lesson are getting harder. This will allow allow me to practice my listen skills using simpler sentences with words I know better. The audio lesson were added when I was already on level 10 and the more complicated sentences are giving me problems.

   My Brother is level six now. And a mutual friend of our has been learning some Esperanto as well.  My Wife wants to learn more Esperanto as she is able.  I plan to go over lessons 1 and 2 alongside her on her Duolingo account.  It will be fun if we can all become fluent enough to use EO with each other.

   I am finding that besides my new wells word dictionary I also like using the Glosbe en/eo/en dictionary to get the meanings of words and many words are used differently between the languages. Of course I still use lernu for quick reference on a word.

UPDATE on my sci-fi short story, 

Ni venas paroli kun vi en vian lingvon

We come to speak with you in your language

   I posted a link to my sci-fi short story at Duolingo Esperanto Learners forum and particularly one student Jonathan Powell really helped me out to make it a readable story.

   Another student Catherine Wilcox has shown interest in recording an audio file along with some other stories she has been reading for student practice.  This conversation is at the Duolingo Esperanto Learners forum.

   Here is a link to the original draft story:  Ni venas paroli kun vi en vian lingvon.

   I will post the edited story in my next post perhaps even with an audio file to go along with it sometime.

Time for some Duolingo lesson reviews

   As I worked towards and finished the 'Dates/Time' lesson of level 8 of the Duolingo course I am finding that I am having difficulty and having to hover words to get the translation hint to often.

   I am going to start going back through the lessons I have already completed for some refresh and confidence building.  It's time to return my now multi-colored lesson patches to there gold luster.

   I am also still having difficulty with the -n affix.  This comes from my ongoing difficulty with identifying word types on the fly.  In english I can make sentences just because I grew up with it and my brain just does it.  I learning a new language I do not have this instinct to draw on, I have to actually know word parts.  If I could Anglesize Esperanto word order and get away with it would help a lot.  I can read sentences that use the -n affix ok though.

   My wife has not been able to continue much with Esperanto so I do not have her practice with.  She never was able to start the Duolingo course.

Duolingo's new Esperanto course ready for class

   The new DuoLingo's Esperanto course has been available to sign up for eight months since September, 2014 and, finally with a lot of work from the volunteers who created it, the beta phase is finally ready for students.  My wife and I have been waiting and watching the Course Status page throughout its hatching progress.  We will be starting the course along with 26,062 students who also pre-signed up without a doubt more to join.  We look forward to using it to continue our progress to learn the language.  

   We look forward to when the beta course is released to the Android/ios App to use it learn Esperanto while out in the yard with our Androids this summer.  Until then, while in beta phase we will use Chrome browsers on our devices.  Who knows, if it works well with Chrome we may not bother with the app at all.  It would certainly save some device memory

   We will continue to use the other teaching avenues we have been using as well. Memrise for vocabulary reminders has been great, but most notably my best language asset so far has been my patient English/EO tutor for helping with my my lack of sentence structure skills.

   In Esperanto if a word is an object or an adverb or noun they are automatically encoded into words by an ending with an -o (object), -a (adverb), or an -n for a noun or pronoun.  I wish EO was used when I was in school to help teach us parts of speech.  Besides, us mono lingo US students need the opportunity to learn a second language right from primary school since it is the best time to learn one.  I really would have enjoyed learning it in school.  We always enjoyed using pig latin and cheap oriental with each other until it got too easy and we grew out of it. If we could have been using EO with each other and have been learning a real language that is used around the world on through adulthood it would have been awesome.  We could also have applied that skill and confidence to learning yet another language later in school.  Esperanto is a bridge to learning hundreds of languages I wish we could have known about.  It is harder to learn a language as an adult, but at least Esperanto is considered the easiest and most structured language a person can learn.

  Between Memrise, my tutor, Esperanto's logical structure, our study book ¨Ni Parolu Esperanton Kune¨, and now Duolingo, we should really be able to enhance our progress of learning Esperanto.