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Just finished the (still beta) duolingo japanese content. Pretty nice, and I definitely ended up learning a slightly larger variety of sentence structures than I ever did in the actual fragment of a japanese course that I took years ago early in grad school. It feels somewhat easier than the other roman-alphabet-language courses since at no point did I ever have to completely freely enter japanese text; there's a lot of prompts that have to cobble together the translation of the english sentences out of little pieces of kana and kanji, so you often can guess the right thing from context even if, say, you have no idea how to pronounce the kanji you're putting in the sentence. As is usual with duolingo, if I were actually serious about studying the language, I would for sure want to supplement with other materials and activities, but it's still neat.

Now on to Polish, I guess? I have the advantage of an easily accessible native speaker to interrogate if and when grammar questions come up. grumble mumble "five of wolf" mumble...