I have just started to learn Spanish and it is going well so far. I believe this is a good topic for my Free Inquiry project because I am passionate and motivated to learn. I have downloaded a language app called “Duolingo” and it is very simple to use. I am using the app to get a beginning knowledge of the language because it has different levels and becomes more challenging as I progress. I have set up to receive notifications every day as a reminder to work on it for 10 minutes. Setting a small amount of time aside every day to work on Spanish is a more realistic goal for me with my busy schedule. It is more likely for me to keep going with this daily goal when I can do it anywhere at any time.

So far I have enjoyed the app. It reads the sentences to me so I can hear the proper pronunciation and tests me on my translation from Spanish to English and English to Spanish. In today’s lesson I learned how to say “I am a woman,” “I am a man,” “I am a girl,” “I am a boy,” and “I eat apples.” Thinking back to the lesson I know what the words look like but if I was tested right now I would not succeed. Hopefully, with more practice, I will remember more of the words and sentences I learned that day/lesson. The only concern I have about this app that may change in the future is that it does not test my pronunciation/speaking skills. If the app does not have the ability to test my speaking in future lessons, I may have to download another app.

I have learned one lesson already from this app. This lesson is not to pick my answer based on the picture or character they provide. I was tricked many times for example it was asking me what is “nina” in English (which is a girl)  but there is a boy character that read the word to me. This will help me actually learn the words and not rely heavily on the characters and pictures. I have hopefully learned my lesson and will not proceed to fall for their tricks.