A love letter to DuoLingo (language made easier)

What have you been doing to fill time during the Pandemic?

I’ve been spending a half an hour each day learning Russian with Duolingo, the language program. I am not affiliated with the company in any way so this is not an ad but I just love it. I am hooked.

I confess to being something of a language nerd, an amateur linguist. When there were moments of hearing other languages, my attention always perked up: in Cuba just before the revolution forced us to leave, I picked up some Spanish. In Austria with my mother on a…