33 Hours

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

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

11 hours, 10 minutes - 6/20/2017

I spent most of the last 40 minutes strengthening everything. But I did almost finish the unit for phrasal future tense. I was hoping to finish it, but on the bright side, I only have two parts left before it's done.

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

Placement Test Results - 6/18/2017

According to LingQ's placement test, I am at an intermediate 1 level. Their test is mainly vocabulary based, although it does have a reading segment at the end.

I think Transparent's placement tests are pretty well done, and they give you a lot of information, so I took that one next. I was actually surprised at how well I did. 59/159 points doesn't sound like a lot, but that's quite a bit of progress.

According to Transparent, I'm still a beginner.

There is more work to be done!

10 hours, 10 minutes

Deixa eu ver. Ten hours in and I made it to future tense. Time for a placement test? I think so.

Plus 40 minutes - 6/17/2017

Well, I'm almost at ten hours. I will take a placement test today, and I will post the results to this blog.

It will be interesting to see where I place after approximately ten hours on Duolingo.

I obviously have concerns about listening comprehension, since the robot voice does not sound human. I copy her, and my mom, who is learning Portuguese on Memrise, corrects my pronunciation. She is hearing native speakers, so I think my best bet is to go with her pronunciation.

Eu quero morar em uma livraria.

9 hours, 10 minutes

Can't believe it's almost ten hours. With all the strengthening, I'm actually feeling pretty good about my Brazilian Portuguese right now.

Quero uma batata com quiejo.

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.

40 minutes - 6/15/2017

Today, I studied for 40 minutes. (So far)

All of my time was spent strengthening. I was busy all day yesterday, so that's why.

Phrases:

Eu nao tenho tempo.

Eu volto ja.

Eu gosto da minha mae tanto.

Hour 7 - 6/12/2017

Hoje, I studied from 22:35 to 23:35

One of the phrases I remember.

Eu quero um presente. 

6 hours, 10 minutes - 6/11/2017

Just completed the sixth hour that goes along with the ten minutes from earlier. 

As you can see from the image, I got a lot done! Most of the learning emphasize vocabulary, but there were a few phrases as well.

I studied from 16:30 to 17:30. 

A phrase I remember.

Ele escreve em Novembro.