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When an app makes the claim that it's equivalent to x amount of college time, or a way to 'learn a language' then they do think it gives other expectations.

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I've replied to people on here who were shocked to find out other (free / non-classroom based) resources for learning their target language existed.Ī lot of people don't know about how to learn a language beyond their experiences of learning a language at school or growing up in a culture where they were continually exposed to multiple languages. The sad thing is that a lot of people do think they only need to work with Duolingo, and they don't even know about the desktop version or the Duolingo blog (hence why we get so many 'how to learn with Duolingo?' posts). The issue is that Duoligo makes ads such as 'Learn a language in 15 minutes a day!' and ' Scientifically proven way to master a language'. Once I saw that a feminine noun when in the dative case uses the article normally meant for masculine nouns in the nominative case, I thought 'okay, now you're just all being assholes', lol. Nearly all of my mistakes are my misremembering the correct article to use in front of nouns. You're also right about the grammar being a challenge. I try identifying things I see with their German names, and thinking about how to say in German what I just said to someone in English, etc. Keeping it in mind while you're not using the app is a very good idea. You're right about the tips being rather unhelpful if I was learning from scratch and using nothing else, I'd probably be lost and would have given up.ĭuolingo is a good thing to keep you exposed to the language, but just using it a few minutes a day won't get you there.

Duolingo showed me that I actually retained a lot more than I thought I did. I was fortunate to have taken German classes in high school, but that was 30 years ago. But getting to even a conversational level nversation. Personally I think it’s a great tool for drilling concepts I have learned elsewhere. And then they get pissy because they make mistakes or got beat in the leagues because that’s the only accomplishment they can fathom. Some guy studying for 15 minutes a day can’t know that. Someone who has immigrated to a country as a refugee is acutely aware of how much they don’t know every single minute every day. And some folks also don’t know how much goes into it. But if you don’t even know that much, Duo gives pretty piss poor explanations even in the “tips”.īut you have to start doing some real work to get that understanding of how things work. Before I started on German, I was fortunate enough to know cases from having lived in Russia and studying the language. So instead of pulling in other resources, they feel like the app has failed them.Īnd in a way it has. And then one day a huge bus called grammar comes and runs them over. When people start using Duolingo it’s pretty damn easy to get basic vocabulary and sentences. But if your only exposure to learning a language was high school Spanish, they wouldn’t necessarily know that. You’re going to basic level to conversational, to advanced to fluent (and everything in between) And there is a long way between zero and fluent.

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It’s like bashing an app that promises to get you through Algebra II because it didn’t teach you calculus.ĭuo isn’t perfect, but it’s a great free tool for language learning, and when used in conjunction with more immersive tools it is very effective for getting a basic understanding of a new language, or maintaining a language you are learning at an intermediate level.Ī lot of people who haven’t learned a language think “fluency” is the measure of leaning a language which is wrong to begin with.

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And that’s after 4 years of 5 classroom hours a week plus study and homework. People don’t go into their high school Spanish courses thinking they’ll come out the other side fluent. I am just so sick and tired of the people bashing this app for not being able to do something it never claimed to be able to. I could see someone reaching B1 using other supplemental resources in addition to Duo, and I could also see it being useful for review and language maintenance through B2. They claim to get you to a solid A2 (in their fully fleshed-out courses). Why are so many people using fluency as the stick to measure the effectiveness of Duo? Duo has never claimed to get anyone to fluency.

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