My Duolingo English-German online language course tree is ready

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I am very happy because I’ve successfully completed the English-German language tree on Duolingo. ’Language tree’ means the whole online language course. It is called a tree because of the visual resemblance.

As you’ll see at the end of my short home selfie video, once it is complete and revision and refreshing the lessons is done properly, the whole language tree will have a beautiful golden color. I find these little golden circles representing the different language topics very motivating and pleasant to my eyes. This is true to all language courses on Duolingo.

When I started learning on Duolingo about one and a half years ago, my first language was German. My motivation came indirectly from one of my students. At the time of writing this YouTube video description I am still - but hopefully not for a long time - a teacher of English language at a primary school in Hejőkeresztúr village in Hungary. The school, the children and my colleagues are great, but I have other plans.

So this student of mine, at that time 14 years old spent a few years in Germany with her family. And guess what, she had a great German accent! Better than mine at the age of 41 now. Get it, a 14-year-old Hungarian girl has a better pronunciation of German and almost sounding like a native speaker to me! I am very happy for her, but it kinda kicked me in the butt. I was lazy enough to stop learning German after secondary school, foolish enough to only complete the written part of the intermediate-level state language examination (type B). I was lazy and stupid to complete the A type, the oral part of the intermediate-state German exam when I was in the practice, right after secondary school. I did not really care about this for many years, and honestly it is not really the lack of the certificate that is bothering me now either, but the crappy attitude I had back then.

So, being ashamed and angry of my youger self being such a dumbass, I told myself: ’No way I am going to take this that a 14-year-old student of mine can speak better German after about 2 years than me after about 5 years and having a certificate!’ :D Okay, I was not really angry, I rather wanted to show myself that I could also get better. :)

I registered myself on Duolingo, this wonderful, free online language learning programme we used in the English classes at school as well. I started with one tiny lesson a day, taking about 5 minutes to complete. I did so to make sure I do it every day because this amount of learning did not put too much pressure on me. It would not take away much of my freetime in which I am selling mushroom coffee online to be able to achieve passive income and quit the everyday ratrace and improve my standard of living both financially and the quality and quantity of my spare time.

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Topics of Duolingo English-German language tree:

Basics1
The
Basics 2
Phrases
Idioms
Flirting
Accusative case
Introduction
Food 1
Animals 1
Plurals
Adjectives: Predicative 1
Not
Question 1
Present 1
Clothing
Nature 1
Possessive pronouns
Nominative pronouns
Negatives
Adverbs 1
Places 1
Stuff
Accusative pronouns
House 1
Conjunctions
People 1
Questions 2
Family 1
Accusative prepositions
Numbers 1
Food 2
Dative case
Money
Dative pronouns
Family 2
Dative prepositions
Body 1
Formal You
Some-
Shopping
Travel
Numbers 2
Colors
Imperative
Occupations 1
Prepositions
Materials
Numbers 3
Comparison
Qualifiers
House
Dates 1
Adjectives: Predicative 2
Location
Adjectives: Predicative 3
Places 2
Medical
Present 2
Dates 2
People 2
Future 1
Feelings
Time
Frequency
Verbs: modal
Adverbs 2
Nature 2
Genitive case
Occupations 2
Perfect 1
Adjectives: nominative 1
Adjectives: accusative
Adjectives: dative
Direction
Adjectives: nominative 2
Adverbs 3
Preterite
Weather
Objects
Communication 1
Future 2
Internet
Verbs: past perfect
Education
Verbs: future perfect
Phrases 2
Science
Verbs: reflexive
Communication 2
Business 1
Language
Abstract objects 1
Animals 2
Present 3
Body 2
Future 3
Spiritual
Verbs: conditional
Math
Banking
Abstract objects 2
Verbs: conditional perfect
Business 2
Future 4
Sports
Perfect 2
Arts
Passive voice
Religion
Politics 1
Adverbs 4
Abstract objects 3
Verbs: conditional 2
Philosophy
Present 4
Fantasy
Abstract objects 4
Relative pronouns
Classical music
Politics 2
Culture
The World