So I saw some bro sharing a 300-day Duolingo streak on Twitter this afternoon, and that for whatever reason sparked me to download Duolingo and get started on a language.

Turns out I’d made a Duolingo account way back in September 2016, but luckily, I could remember my login info and started things up from there.

I’m going to go for French. Three reasons why:

1. It’s in the same general family as English and thus would be easier to learn than, say, Hebrew or Greek.
2. It’s one of Canada’s official languages and is thus on packaging and other things up here; it would be something easy to practice and, of course, it’d be cool to know Canada’s other official language.
3. (I could possibly read some original, untranslated Leibniz!!!!!)

So yeah. We’ll see how this goes. I know Duo doesn’t replace actual language courses and experience, but it’s a good start, right?