A blow to Esperanto, leads to a hobby I can do with my Wife

   As a shock to me my Wife decided she would like to learn to program Python with me and perhaps eventually build a robot kit with me.  She never could fully develop an interest in learning Esperanto with me, and my main goal was to include my Wife.  My time and brain can not keep up with both hobby's, so in the enjoyment of having a hobby I can do with my Wife, I will not be continue to be active at Esperanto.  That is all I really wanted in in the first place is to find a hobby I could do with my Wife and Friends.  After all, Any hobby is the most fun, when it is shared among Friends.

   We are joined my Brother and Friends in our mutual interest in learning how to use and program a Raspberry Pi 2 hobby computer.  Posts about our new hobby computer are blogged here at my tech blog.

Our new baby in the house gave us the Raspberry

Raspberry image credit

Slow goes the pace

    I continue on towards progress with Esperanto.  It is a very slow thing for me as I have an especially  hard time retaining things in my head, nevertheless I continue to try.   I need to practice more, but I go at a pace on Duolingo according to my abilities for the day.  The thought of being able to converse in even simple everyday speech in Esperanto spurs me on.

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.  

Now level 12 on Duolingo

  I am now level 12 on the Duolingo Esperanton course, and am on a 92 day streak.  My patches are gilded gold through Feelings.  I have been spending all my time trying to keep the lesson patches gold until I feel more comfortable with the language.  I need to gild 5 lessons, (Places through Travel), Then I can move on to Affixes 2 if I feel like I feel ready.

Now level 12 on Duolingo

    In other news, the Spanish to Esperanto course is now being created. When I finish the course in English and if I feel comfortable with it I would consider doing the Spanish to Esperanto course to both review Esperanto and also learn some spanish.

Estas malmola konservi vortoj en mia kapa sed mi instigis daŭrigi

    #KOR Mi havas malmola tempo konservi vortoj en mia kapa.  Sed mi ĵus ricevas mesaĝas ŝatas ĉi tiu al instigi mi daŭrigi:   

"You won your wager by keeping your streak for 7 days and have been awarded 10 lingots!just now
You earned 8 lingots for reaching a 80 day streak! Just now"

   Mi esperas al resti motivita daŭrigi mian strion.  La penso de perdado 5 lingots en la veto funkcias bone kvankam.

kaj ekrankopio iri kun ĝi

   I am doing some better at understanding the audio of the Duolingo course IF I use earphones to feed it right to my ear. I still miss a good number of them both because of the audio questions, and my own lack of word recall ability and language structure errors. Especially that darn accusative -n.

   It sure would be cool though if Duolingo had video as well as audio for the course. Particularly for some of the words that one would normally catch in conversation if you could see the speaker's mouth pronouncing the words. I still appreciate all the work that goes into making the course though. 

   I am on day 73 of a day streak and do not plan to lose it. (with no freezes used yet). I will yet conquer the course, even if I am the last student. I am still at level 11 and 195 lingots. I have been wagering 5 lingots for 7 day regularity to get 10 back. I will save my lingots to spend on language tests.... once I have the confidence up that I can get a decent score that will not be discouraging to me.

    Erik, My new language buddy has been a great motivational force. He is enjoying learning Esperanto very much. So far we have been using greetings when we meet and sharing a few learned words. I look forward to being able to have basic conversations with him. He does a good amount of side research into the language.

   My Wife and Brother are not currently active in learning Esperanto other than a few occasional sentences.

   I have been doing 1-4 lessons a day lately to keep the tree gold for much needed memory practice with previous lessons and occasionally will do another new lesson.

I have been doing 1-4 lessons daily to keep the tree gold for practice with previous lessons and occasionally will do another new lesson.

  Ni havas a nova lingvo kamarado. Li estas nun nivelo 5.  Ni havas bona fojo kune.

  Mi estas ankoraŭ ĉe levelo 11, sed ankoraŭ laboras per recenzo.  Mi estas koloro oro per leciono "Affixes 1" kaj daŭros recenzi per la "Affixes 2" tiam kontinui kun la lecionoj mi ne havas finas ankoraŭ ne. aŭskultas al la lecionoj aŭdio estas  iom faĉila nun.  Ho, estis tiu ne amuzo lerni.  Aŭdio estas multa laboras lerni al aŭskultas tro.  

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Anglan by Google tradukas: We have a new language companion. He is now level 5. We have a good time together.

   I am still at level 11, but am still working through review. I am color gold through lesson "Affixes 1" and will continue to review through the "Affixes 2" then continue with the lessons I have not finished yet. listen to the lessons audio is a little easier now. Oh, was it not fun to learn.  Audio is a lot of work to learn to listen too.