Which language(s) should I take?

[rachel83az]

So far the poll says German, Italian, and Spanish. Fair enough. Unless someone has a good reason to attempt one of the other languages, it'll be Spanish + Italian and/or German. 

Based on Duolingo's "studies", I should aim to complete 5-7 units of Duolingo by February of next year, or roughly one unit per month. I plan to use the Waterfall method for study, or try to, at least.

For Duolingo Spanish, the whole course is 10 units long. If I counted correctly:

• Unit 1 has 9 skills
  
• Unit 2 has 29 skills
  
• Unit 3 has 32 skills
  
• Unit 4 has 29 skills
  
• Unit 5 has 29 skills
  
• Unit 6 has 29 skills
  
• Unit 7 has 28 skills
  

Total: 185 skills. 185 skills x 5 crowns per skill = 925 crowns needed to complete Unit 7. 785 crowns to finish Unit 6. If I do an average of 4 crowns per day, that puts me at 860 crowns by February 25th (215 days from today). I'll probably try to do lessons to 2 crowns, then attempt to test out of the rest. There are only so many times I can put up with "Soy un hombre." before I go bonkers.

Poca a Poco has about 210 to 223 readable pages (once you remove the vocabulary or grammar bits), which means reading about a page a day of that. 

I have other resources, including this language-learning Humble Bundle, but I'm going to resist using them as much as possible. I'm going to assume that future UMPI students are going to want to get credit as quickly and as cheaply as possible, so they're not going to want to purchase books or apps I already have, such as Spanish for Dummies, or Babbel. 

I will be using some free stuff, though, like Leo's Spanish/English dictionary and I might use this Anki flashcard deck. I'll also be using the free version of Kwiziq on an irregular basis to gauge my progress. Right now, it says I am at 11.19% of A0, 0.38% of A1, and at a hilarious -0.07% for A2. Yes, negative! Too much anti-Spanish creeping in from Italian, perhaps. 

I don't usually restrict myself to so few books/apps, so this should be interesting. If I do use anything else, I'll let everyone know.