tomgosse wrote:Now, Duolingo says that I am 41% fluent in French. I don't know what that means. Does it mean that I've finished 41% of the course, or I get 41% of the questions correct ? Who knows !
This is what Duolingo admin a_david said about it 3 months ago when they rolled the badge out: "This is exactly what it sounds like: our estimate of your fluency in the language you're learning. It is calculated based on what words you know, how important those words are, how well you know them, and how likely you are to forget them. It will increase over time as you learn more words and strengthen your skills, but it will decrease if you don't keep up your strength. Since our goal is for this estimate to be as accurate as possible, be aware that finishing your tree won't get you to 100%."
Which means it might not be based solely on the words in the tree, but then what is it based on? There were 1920 words in the tree when I finished it, though there might be a few more; I've come across a couple new ones taking the reverse tree. I'm supposedly 61% fluent. It does go up and down depending on whether you keep our tree golden, and how well you do when strengthening.
I can't say I was much the wiser after reading that, since they never define "fluency".
Memrise says that I have learned 562 words. I wish I could remember which ones they were.
You can look them up by going into the individual sections -- yeah, that is quite cumbersome; I wish there were a list of all the words in a course on one page.
On Friday I go for a lithotripsy and get some new plumbing put in. Not looking forward to that.
I imagine not. You have my best wishes; I hope everything goes well!
It's fun discovering all the links between French and Celtic culture now (even in Francophone Canada!). Maybe we can all take up Breton down the line as well 