Hey Readers!

Can you believe we’re 2 months into our learning project? Or that we’re 2 weeks from the end of semester? Me neither!! Personally, I’m so ready for a break at this point – between the approaching end of semester and Christmas shopping, I am beyond exhausted.

The other day I officially hit a streak of 60 days on DuoLingo! This is pretty exciting for me – I think over the duration of this semester, I have learned more French than I did throughout all of my elementary/secondary education. I like to think that this is not due to a lack of good teachers (I had great teachers), but rather the motivation that I have gained throughout this learning project.

It’s kind of funny to think that something as silly as a “streak” is something that has become incredibly motivational for me, but whenever I’m feeling burnt out I get a notification that my streak is in jeopardy- and then I go into a panic and spend the next 30 minutes on DuoLingo.

Obviously I’m not alone in this feeling, for when I look at the DuoLingo leaderboards I often see people who have streaks of 3+ years of daily DuoLingo lessons.

This week I’m really thinking about my motivation, as a 2 month streak on DuoLingo was not something I foresaw myself achieving when undertaking this learning project. More specifically, I am curious as to why I wasn’t as motivated to learn French as a youngster. As a question to the readers, did you enjoy additional language classes such as French when you were a student? If so, what motivated you in those classes? If not, why do you think that is, and what do you think could have motivated you in these classes?

As always, thanks for reading! I’m looking forward to hearing your input!!