For the Duolingo assignment you mentioned in Elliot's Microblogging - #253 by Elliot I went ahead and chose Japanese because I have been studying it for a while already. Just a few questions:
Would my prior knowledge be a problem for this kind of thing?
Roughly how I study Japanese daily so far is to:
- Do writing lessons and reviews. Roughly write about 20 characters a day.
- Grammar flashcards
- Vocabulary flashcards (regular recall ones and type in the answers)
- an episode of anime in Japanese
I bring those up because I wonder if those count as practice. I don’t mind adding 15 minutes of DuoLingo on top of that. From what I read the assignment wasn’t given as a requirement just a recommendation but I don’t mind doing it. Will I get benefits from doing it? I feel like the stuff duo had me do so far is similar to my reviews and stuff. Should I do a different language?