34 Hours

I reached 34 hours on Duolingo in Brazilian Portuguese. I feel like I will be at least an A1 in the placement test. Did this feel like one semester's worth of work? It definitely felt like I learned a lot during the 34 hours of studying.

Soon I will be taking and posting placement tests, so if you're interested in the results of 34 hours on Duolingo, stay tuned!

33 Hours

Learned lots of verbs and finally reached medical! Only one hour left. Wow!

29 Hours

Finally made it past present perfect!

28 Hours

28 hours. Woo!

26 Hours

Almost gol again. I might aim for a second hour today to see if I can get ahead.

24 hours

Just more strengthening. Again! Well, I spent a little more time on each lesson today. I decided I wouldn't highlight the words and would guess instead if I didn't remember them. I feel like I got a bit more out of it that way. 

22 hours

More strengthening. And it looks like I won't actually finish the tree before 34 hours is up. Wow!

21 hours! Wow

Still strengthening! 

20 hours

Strengthened to here. As you can see I still have a bit more strengthening to do if I just want to strengthen everything before moving on. I have a feeling I won't finish the tree before 34 hours is up.

Placement Test for 7/9/2017

I got the sames scores as last time. On both tests? That doesn't seem right. I guess I haven't made a lot of progress in the last 7 hours. Frustrating!

16 hours

Today, I did fifty minutes to make my hour numbers even again, because I was getting confused. I don't want to do extra math, so back to even hours!

Tomorrow will be the halfway point, so I will take another placement test tomorrow and we'll see how much progress has been made! :D

15 hours, 10 minutes

Finally caught up from my break. Strengthened everything and almost finished adjectives 2.

On a side note, I'm happy to see so many people are signing up for the challenge! 

14 hours, 10 minutes

Did a 60 minute marathon to catch up and strengthened to here. 

13 hours, 10 minutes

13 hours. Woo!

Plus 40 minutes

This is starting to feel like a chore and homework, which is making me feel a little resistant, but I must bully through. For science! And Portuguese! 

Vamos la!

12 hours, 10 minutes

I got through my whole hour today. I didn't finish strengthening, but that's okay. Duolingo has a new feature called Duolingo Stories which distracted me a bit. It's my dream language learning tool! Something I've been thinking about for a very long time and they managed to put it into action. Go Duolingo!

Phrases

O menino sai daqui

Deixa eu ver

Plus 40 minutes - 6/23/2017

Clearly, I took a break. You can see the decay that resulted from the picture above. In 40 minutes, I was only able to strengthen a few things back to gold. I have some catching up to do!

Deixa eu ver.

Plus 30 minutes

Today, I felt reluctant to get on Duolingo at all, so I decided to start with 30 minutes. I also decided to work my way from the "top down". I strengthened the harder lessons and worked my way backward towards the easier lessons. This made me feel less frustrated by the time I got to the end of the time limit. 

I didn't finish strengthening, though. But as you may know if you've been following this blog, I took a break yesterday.

a ponte

a ponte e aqui

um, dois, tres

Plus 40 minutes - 6/16/2017

I studied for forty minutes this afternoon. I spent part of the time strenghtening and part of the time learning new skills. I am in present 3, which is nice. I am looking forward to learning past tense.

Eu nao tenho tempo.

O hotel tem quarenta quartos.

9 Hours, 10 minutes - 6/16/2017

Today, I studied for 30 minutes so far. I spent the whole time strengthening skills. I was also muito cansada. 

See below for how tired I was.

Eu estou cansada. Quero dormir.