Camp Duolingo Week One!

7/11/20

Hello everyone!

This week was the start of Duolingo's online language camp called #CampDuo! This was the first week out of 4 and was called "Getting to Know you" where we did projects that would help people learn more about ourselves. I wanted to share some of the posts I made and talk about them a little bit. :) Here is the link to the blog post by Cindy Blanco discussing the activities: https://blog.duolingo.com/camp-duo-2020-language-learning-in-your-own-backyard/

Day 1 Getting to Know you!- This was the first post I made for the week. In this drawing, I drew myself and Duo, the mascot for Duolingo, with a few things I like and the languages I'm currently learning using Duo. I'm currently doing Spanish, Swedish and Irish. I put what my current crowns and XP were to show everyone where I'm at currently in these languages and I put my streak which at the time it was 148. (now it's 153) I also added some things I like in the three languages. I put to draw, read, play video games, and film photography. I really like how this one came out. Even though I did want to add some more things in it but I didn't really have the room to.

Day 2 Illustrated Calendar- This was the second post I made for the week. For this prompt, we had to draw a calendar using the language(s) we are learning. I was going to do a month for all three of mine, but I ended up just doing this one instead. I chose to do August because it's my birthday month. I drew Duo enjoying a nice August day at the beach with some ice tea and a crab friend. I wasn't originally going to label everything in the picture, but I, later on, decided to because I felt like it would fit more with the language learning theme. I kinda wish Duolingo had actual calendars like this in stores or online. I think it would be a neat way to learn some vocab and I feel like it would help remind ourselves of the months and days of the week in the language we're learning. :) I used Swedish for this one. I also ended up winning one of the Camp Duo patches for this drawing which makes me so happy! :D The inner Girl Scout in me is pleased lol.

Day 3 Make Your Own Lesson- This was my post for day three. This prompt was to make up your own lesson. I chose to do Irish for this one. I had a lot of fun doing this one and it was really cool to learn how to talk about things I like in Irish. I actually think this would make a really cool exercise to do when you're not doing Duolingo. Come up with your own sentences and try to put them together like you would in the lessons. :)  The first sentence is "My favorite NASCAR driver is Brennan Poole." and I picked to do this one because I'm obsessed with NASCAR and I wanted to learn how you say what your favorite driver is in Irish. Also, Brennan is a surname in Ireland that one of my older relatives from Ireland had so I thought that was cool :). The second sentence is "I played Animal Crossing all day." I picked this sentence because well, it's true lol. I'm having a lot of fun with Animal Crossing New Horizons especially since they added the ability to swim in the ocean. Now I have a new way to make some bells lol. I also drew my favorite villager, Poppy, who shares the same birthday as me :3. The last sentence is "I like to take Polaroid Pictures when it's sunny outside." I chose this sentence because it's what I like to do in the spring and summer since the Polaroid camera works best when you have a lot of sunlight. I'll probably end up talking about my Polaroid photography more on here in the future.

Day 4 Label Your "Cabin"- This is what I posted for day four. This prompt was to label some things around your house. I chose Swedish for this one. The words in order are: röring byrå (messy dresser)
filmkameror (film cameras) skivsprlare (record player) and docker (dolls). It was fun to find out what all of these are called in Swedish and I almost went and labeled everything in my room lol. I do wish I had written them with a marker instead of a pen because the notes are a little hard to see but oh well. I was happy to hear that people liked seeing some of the stuff I collect. :) I love film cameras and Cabbage Patch Kids and I recently have gotten back into vinyl again. The record on the player "Floppy Disk Overdrive" by Master Boot Record on Bandcamp. It's a Synth/Electronic/Heavy Metal album that's really good and I highly recommend giving it a listen if you dig that kind of thing. https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/floppy-disk-overdrive

Day 5 Family Tree- This was my post for day Five. The prompt was to make a family tree of your family. I chose to use Irish for this since my mom's side of the family is Irish. I wanted to go farther and add more people but I didn't have enough room on the paper to. I should've really used a bigger paper lol. It's actually kinda cool that this was one of the prompts because I've actually been doing my family tree on Ancestry.com and used it to help make this. :) I've learned a lot about my family from doing it and I hope to do the DNA thing some point in the future to help me learn even more about myself and my family.

That wraps up the first week of Camp Duo! Here is the checklist which I'll show at the end of each week to show the progress. I had a lot of fun doing these and I can't wait to do the next week of activities! :D
You can follow my Instagram to see these posts throughout the week: https://www.instagram.com/lauralulusart/?hl=en
Here is also the Twitter thread I am also posting these on:https://twitter.com/lauralulusart/status/1280638529471684609
Hope you enjoyed and see you next Saturaday! :D