I have this one coworker who only speaks Spanish

@Starcrossed yeah I often find myself translating for him, which surprises me 😂 every day I've even been asking him how to say certain words, that way it helps me remember when I need to tell him something later. That actually helps me a lot

@ChiefJustWalks see you're still learning😎

I'm on a 54 day duolingo streak. 😊

@Starcrossed what's duolingo mean? 😶

@ChiefJustWalks its a free [and pay] app that teaches languages.
My kid is on a 171 day streak [though I logged in each day for her the week she was at camp.
She kept asking me to try it so to humor her I agreed to do it for a week. But it's kinda like a game and you compete against other people learning languages too. And you can friend people you know [one of my friend's tween also has it as does another mom in her scout troop.] You can have quests with friends for extra gems. 😆 I kinda like it.

I've picked it up faster than I thought I would I'm doing Polish which seems more difficult than the few years of Spanish in school. She's doing Spanish and between what she learned at school and what's in the app, by the time she gets to high school she'll breeze through those classes.

The mom of the kid in her troop has a 1047 day streak, isn't that crazy? She's done mostly Spanish but dabbled in 6 other languages.

@ChiefJustWalks Lol if you get it I want you to friend me!

@Starcrossed I have a new phone so I'll go download it 😌 I usually always fill up my phone storage so it feels nice to have so much space rn 😂

@Starcrossed you should learn Icelandic. That would be so cool.

@JustGoneNow Lol I can try as a side quest and do it really slowly 🐌. Guessing I need to download a different keyboard?

@Starcrossed yeah. We have letters than don’t exist for you… like Þ .

@JustGoneNow Lol I used to use that instead of P in old school emoticons
;-Þ

@ChiefJustWalks @Starcrossed

This is mostly my opinion about learning a language but anyways -

Being able to hear and read it is more important (at least at first) than being able to speak and write it. Reason is because we learn more about things when we read and hear than in speaking and writing.
The GOOD news about the skills of reading and hearing is that they are easier than speaking and writing. Speaking and writing forces us to construct somewhat coherent statements and if we are not good at it yet, we screw up a lot. In reading and hearing, especially reading, we can process it easier, assuming something is well written or clearly spoken.

I am learning French, I do alright with "instruction" but still understand next to nothing when hearing it. So I been focusing on "hearing"

@Starcrossed yeah it’s called Þorn. And it makes the “th” sound.

So you’d call the letter phonetically “thorn.”