Foreign Language Challenge: And the Winner is...

The results for the Foreign Language Challenge are in! First let me recognize four students who all accumulated 1500 XP or more on Duolingo:

Seth Greene, Spanish: 1509 XP
Josiah Wiedenheft, Japanese: 1871 XP
Samantha Moore, French: 3766 XP
Linette Taylor, French (6751) and Spanish (2950): 9701 XP!!!

Did any of them manage to beat yours truly? Here are my own totals:

French: 2348 XP
Italian: 132 XP
Latin: 1004 XP
Polish: 791 XP
Czech: 16 XP

For my own grand total of 4291 XP.

So... Linette not only wins the challenge, she even beat me! Very impressive. Be sure to congratulate her.

Thanks to everyone who participated. I hope that it was enjoyable and will kindle a desire to keep learning!

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