I'd done a couple of lessons of Duolingo pretty consistently every day during our two-month hiatus, and I'm really pleased to report that I can definitely tell a difference. Unsurprisingly, my vocabulary sucks really badly still (the way Duolingo is structured, I can't really learn vocab very well unless it's something I already knew from some other context), but surprisingly, at least to me, the structure of Lehndorff's sentences is, if not transparent, at least quite a bit easier for me to parse than it was before Yuletide, I think just because I've had two months' more practice (and harder lessons) now. So while it's pretty rare for me to be able to figure out a sentence entirely, because I don't know the words, at least I can usually follow it once I refer to the translation for all the words I don't know, which was often not the case before Yuletide.
I'm also seeing what you mean, Selena, about how Lehndorff gets better over time. The word-portraits he does now are still really fun, but not as masterful as that Wartensleben one.
Lehndorff readalong redux
I'd done a couple of lessons of Duolingo pretty consistently every day during our two-month hiatus, and I'm really pleased to report that I can definitely tell a difference. Unsurprisingly, my vocabulary sucks really badly still (the way Duolingo is structured, I can't really learn vocab very well unless it's something I already knew from some other context), but surprisingly, at least to me, the structure of Lehndorff's sentences is, if not transparent, at least quite a bit easier for me to parse than it was before Yuletide, I think just because I've had two months' more practice (and harder lessons) now. So while it's pretty rare for me to be able to figure out a sentence entirely, because I don't know the words, at least I can usually follow it once I refer to the translation for all the words I don't know, which was often not the case before Yuletide.
I'm also seeing what you mean, Selena, about how Lehndorff gets better over time. The word-portraits he does now are still really fun, but not as masterful as that Wartensleben one.