Finished Russian course after 7.5 years
One day in 2017, looking for something to do on my lunch break, I started the Duolingo Russian course. This week, I finished it!!
It’s been an on-again, off-again thing. I redoubled my effort during the pandemic, then pivoted to Turkish for a year or so after the invasion of Ukraine. Last year, my New Year’s resolution was to finish the course and I failed… but only barely!
I don’t have any good reason to have learned Russian but I have a long list of not-very-good-reasons, including a lot that I didn’t have when I started. Mostly, it was just to prove to myself that I could do it. I always considered myself better at math and sciences than lit and language, but I wanted to prove to myself that I was better at those things because that’s what I focused on in school and if I focused on learning a new language, I could be good at that too — even a notoriously difficult one.
I only recently joined Reddit but I mostly did so I could press on with practicing and learning more colloquial Russian. This is my first post here and I just wanted to say a big thank you to the Duolingo community!
One day in 2017, looking for something to do on my lunch break, I started the Duolingo Russian course. This week, I finished it!!
It’s been an on-again, off-again thing. I redoubled my effort during the pandemic, then pivoted to Turkish for a year or so after the invasion of Ukraine. Last year, my New Year’s resolution was to finish the course and I failed… but only barely!
I don’t have any good reason to have learned Russian but I have a long list of not-very-good-reasons, including a lot that I didn’t have when I started. Mostly, it was just to prove to myself that I could do it. I always considered myself better at math and sciences than lit and language, but I wanted to prove to myself that I was better at those things because that’s what I focused on in school and if I focused on learning a new language, I could be good at that too — even a notoriously difficult one.
I only recently joined Reddit but I mostly did so I could press on with practicing and learning more colloquial Russian. This is my first post here and I just wanted to say a big thank you to the Duolingo community!