This is week #4 of my learning project and I made some great progress this week!

I began to learn words this week and am slowly (very slowly) beginning to string sentences together. I made a list of all the words I learned at the beginning of the week and then used this to study each day and try remember them. Since I learned the alphabet the last few weeks I was able to sound out the words to learn the pronunciation better. So far learning the words and pronunciation is not to challenging but remembering the words is really hard.

I used Duolingo to help me learn this week and it was awesome at teaching me but had some downfalls aswell. Duolingo is a good source to start with and probably good to learn the whole language as well because it uses active recall strategies. It keeps asking me the same questions until I get it right which I believe is a really effective way to learn. The accesibility of it is so nice because it was easy for me to just do a few lessons each day. However, a really big downfall for the app is you only get five “hearts” and each wrong question costs you a heart. You have to wait until the next day or else purchase more hearts. I don’t like this when I am trying to learn a new language because I am going to make plenty of mistakes and it limits my learning. Besides having limited amounts of hearts Duolingo is so good to learn from becasue it uses active recall and is so easy to learn a few lessons in a day.