Getting To Know Me

Nathaniel Worthman Professor. Dadak 10.4.19 Music and Language For my final language log I want to talk about how music has affected my language learning process. For my whole life, music and language have been important to the development of who I am asa person today but almost exclusively separate. It wasn’t until 6th  grade when I decided to dedicate my summer to perfecting my knowledge of the Spanish language that I mixed the two. At the end of my 6th grade school year, I asked Señora Perez for her advice. “How can I accelerate the language learning process and become fluent this summer.” Looking back now I can laugh and can understand why sra. Perez was so taken aback. She had told me that in order to get better at Spanish over the summer I could do a couple of things: watch tv in Spanish, read an article everyday in Spanish and finally, listen to spanish music. While I did all of the things she recommended, I focused on listening to Spanish music. To me, this was th

Nathaniel Worthman  Professor. Dadak Writing 101 4.4.19 Duolingo: Friend or Foe              Today I want to talk about the increase in popularity of Duolingo. Is this a god thing or a bad thing? Now I want to preface this with the fact that this is solely based on my opinion and thus this is NOT fact and shouldn’t be treated as such. Anyway, I feel that from my personal experience Duolingo has become such a great platform for people to not only learn languages but to learn about language. What do I mean by this...? Well, I know so many people who have never heard of languages like Romanian, Catalan or even Irish. Additionally, I know some people who have never  seen  languages like Vietnamese or Esperanto. For that reason, I believe that Duolingo serves the great purpose of educating people on languages and the cultures behind them.              With that being said, I don’t believe that it’s possible to learn a language through Duolingo alone while many people who I’ve