{"id":51,"date":"2022-06-20T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2022\/06\/20\/join-me-on-duolingo-ive-been-on-for-a-year\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T20:14:01","slug":"join-me-on-duolingo-ive-been-on-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2022\/06\/20\/join-me-on-duolingo-ive-been-on-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Join me on Duolingo (I&#8217;ve been on for a year!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day in early May was my first year anniversary trying to learn Spanish on Duolingo. I created my account many years ago, but quickly abandoned it. I&#8217;m not sure why, after all these years, I decided to try again. June 20 is supposed to mark the day I have done a lesson every day for a year (though I have often used my earned points to &#8220;buy&#8221; the weekend off).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spanish currently has an introductory set of lessons, followed by 10 more, each marked with a &#8220;checkpoint&#8221;. It took me a year, starting from the very first lesson, to get halfway through checkpoint 4. In the early days, I would often do 10 lessons a day. Now, I do a minimum of three.<\/p>\n<p>Duolingo has a free version &#8211; that&#8217;s the one I use. It&#8217;s not the greatest way to learn a language from scratch, but if you have taken a class, or classes, in a language in the past, it&#8217;s a great way to keep your skills up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you <a href=\"https:\/\/invite.duolingo.com\/BDHTZTB5CWWKTSAAMS2MMD6YXI\">use this link to join Duolingo<\/a>, I get two weeks&#8217; access to some special features I would usually have to pay for. If you do use that link, be sure to follow me on your account &#8211; I&#8217;ll do the same for you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day in early May was my first year anniversary trying to learn Spanish on Duolingo. I created my account many years ago, but quickly abandoned it. I&#8217;m not sure why, after all these years, I decided to try again. June 20 is supposed to mark the day I have done a lesson every day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hurrah-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}