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ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch

2018-01-24T02:00:56Z

Today I finished the Duolingo German tree!!!

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oops

2017-08-30T21:57:41Z

I forgot to do my Duolingo practice yesterday and lost a 153-day streak. *sadface*

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a little brag

2017-06-26T22:33:08Z

I now have a 100 day streak on Duolingo!

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in which german is unexpectedly easy

2017-06-25T23:15:03Z

I've finally found one area in which German is superior to French (by which I mean, easier for me as a native English speaker). It's numbers. German numbers seem to work mostly like English ones, but French numbers make you do math. (ETA: They do in the standard French of France; apparently it is not universal and other varieties of French do it differently.) Well, numbers from 70 to 99. 70 in French is "soixante-dix," literally sixty-ten. 71 is "soixante-onze," sixty-eleven. 80 is "quatre-vingt," or four twenties. 90 is "quatre-vingt-dix," four twenties and ten, and so on up to 99, "quatre-vingt-dix-neuf," or four twenties and nineteen.

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I can't believe I'm doing this voluntarily

2017-05-06T19:58:16Z

Today I have spent a couple of ~~decades~~ hours making flashcards for German possessive pronouns, and crying.

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and do you really need all those umlauts?

2017-04-21T02:19:21Z

Dear German language,

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