{"id":2213,"date":"2023-12-03T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T03:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2023-12-03T19:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T03:23:35","slug":"language-still-duolingo-ing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/03\/language-still-duolingo-ing\/","title":{"rendered":"Language: Still Duolingo-ing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023.12-Duolingo_1600-days-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023.12-Duolingo_1600-days-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023.12-Duolingo_1600-days-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023.12-Duolingo_1600-days-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023.12-Duolingo_1600-days-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023.12-Duolingo_1600-days-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023.12-Duolingo_1600-days.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it is outrageous.  Yes, it is good practice.  Yes, I&#8217;ve been at it so long that they keep updating the lessons AROUND me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year I spent time on Hawaiian, and then switched back to German.  I miss Japanese, but fear that I forgot all the kanji already.  I&#8217;m not cool enough for French and Spanish this year, though I&#8217;m happy that I found my notebook with Spanish and Japanese notes.  (They&#8230; are not similar!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m a paying member, so I was able to buy a &#8220;streak freeze&#8221; on the few days I couldn&#8217;t get to my lessons before midnight.  But STILL.  I&#8217;m&#8230; persistent!  The owl (die Eule) mascot, Duo, is momentarily appeased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it is outrageous. Yes, it is good practice. Yes, I&#8217;ve been at it so long that they keep updating the lessons AROUND me. This year I spent time on Hawaiian, and then switched back to German. I miss Japanese, but fear that I forgot all the kanji already. I&#8217;m not cool enough for French &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/03\/language-still-duolingo-ing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Language: Still Duolingo-ing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}