Duolingo is that app you use like 10 minutes after learning or attendinf an actual lesson. Its a side thing dont make it the main source of your learning
When I started learning German I used Duolingo alongside other material to learn, it was actually quite helpful, mostly providing vocab; it’s true that it won’t make you fluent but it surely helps. Also sigue así hermano, saludos de México 🤙
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I've watched a number of videos that criticise Duolingo, but I would say it's OK for language learning, in my personal opinion. I use it for Japanese, but it's only a small part of the picture. Duolingo does a decent job of scratching the surface of the grammar and building up my vocabulary, then Anki and WaniKani (a popular site for learning kanji) are my other resources used for improving my abilities. Duolingo also has Duolingo Events; free Zoom calls with other learners or natives wanting to exchange, which I think is a super useful resource. Also, the gamification on Duolingo does keep me doing it even on busy days (three kids and a full-time job!). tl;dr - If you like it, go for it, but you should probably mix in other methods too
Even though this comment is a year old now, I'll answer. Learning a language takes years of practice and many multi language speakers have brain connections that make learning languages easier than others because they learned languages when they were young. The technical explanation behind this is that in childhood and adolescence, you form connections non-linearly, so you are able to make brain connections much faster. ALL polygots have connections from a young age that greatly improves their ability to learn languages. My advice to you is to practice, get hobbies, and keep your brain active if you're truly dedicated to learning languages. Hobbies, especially creative ones, are proven to keep your brain lively and help create neuropathways much faster. There is no LEARN A LANGUAGE IN TWO MONTHS WITH THIS SIMPLE TRICK method.
Yo estaba aprendiendo ruso hace 3 años y ahora que lo retomé con duolingo las traducciones de ruso e inglés estan decentes, obviamente depende del contexto, pero he recordado muchas cosas gracias a la aplicación, además que ayuda a introducirte a lo basico
Really? I tried learning Russian through Duolingo a while back, spent months on it, using it for an hour a day, and even getting first place consistently on the gold leaderboards... And the only word I remember is Moloko.
I started learning Russian in Duolingo like a month ago and currently I'm on a 34 day streak. I think it's working really quick for me, I can already read properly and pronounce some complex words.
Creo que eso realmente depende del curso. He estado aprendiendo español casi solamente con Duolingo por un año y ahora lo hablo bastante bien. Generalmente, entiendo lo que dice la gente y puedo tener conversaciones completas sobre muchas temas. No he utilizado Duolingo para aprender otros idiomas, así que no sé que buenos (o malos) son los otros cursos, pero el curso de español en Duolingo es agradable en mi opinión. Es verdad que hay muchas frases que nunca se vayan a utilizar, pero ellos se pueden ayudarte muchísimo aprender la gramática y la manera *correcta* para construir las oraciones, eso es una cosa que videos de RU-vid no te enseñan. Es verdad que utilizar otras plataformas que Duolingo es importante, pero Duolingo es un gran punto de partida (al menos para aprender el español). De todas maneras, me encantan tus vídeos muchisimo! Son asombrosos. Keep up the good work! (Cualquiera puede sentirse libre de corregir cualquier error que cometí al escribir este mensaje)
I've used Duolingo for a while, it is definitely useful alongside actual communication and watching/listening to native speaker content. When I started learning Duolingo eased me into language learning, if I had just looked at books and podcasts I would've felt discouraged, Duo makes it basic and fun to start and now I do most of my learning without them.
As a 21 yr old Mexican American that can understand more than speak Spanish & was never good at English grammar in school, I’m excited to learn Italian 😅😅
¿Qué aplicación recomendarías que sea mejor que Duolingo, para aprender idiomas? O casi todas las aplicaciones que hay utilizan el mismo método . un saludo y gracias por tus videos.
I'm learning japanese, i use duolingo but i also read the comments, look up questions I have on the web, and consume japanese media(such as anime). I dont wanna be fluent, write in Japanese, or know all kanji. I just wanna be able to understand it. I like duolingo because it repeats things to stick it in my head. Of course this shouldn't be my only source, which Is why i watch anime to try to solidify harder my understanding. Basically I dont wanna be 100% fluent. With the set up I have, will I be able to accomplish my goal of understanding japanese well? I put in about 40-70 minutes each day with all of these.
Don't really agree that Duo is completely useless. If you have no language skills it teaches you some basic words and grammar in a fun way. Of course you need supplementary materials, that's out of question. But I reached B1 french with duolingo, listening to french podcasts and reading Harry Potter. Plus it's free which is a huge plus for most people. Should duo be the only thing that you use to study a language? No, definetly not. Can it help. Sure!
Interesting. Now my contra-argument would be that if you had not used Duolingo and instead you had invested all your time into consuming real content (books , podcasts, etc..) I think you would have made even more progress. Happy to hear from you Max :D
I totally agree that the better way to improve a language is consuming media, but for me is very uncomfortable start with that if you don't know nothing about the target language. In French, for example, I didn't know nothing so I spend almost two weeks learning basic sentences and reading basic stories at Duolingo, it helped me a lot. Now I'm able to listen a simple podcast with transcript and catch the unknown words in a much more comfortable way. It do I feel more interest in the content, consequently I spend much more time "studying".
@@santiglot okay so I want to learn how to speak Esperanto and I use Duolingo for my daily task. IF it's not a good idea, what is your suggestion for my learning experience?? By the way I know about Lernu. Thanks for any advice.
something that duolingo SEVERELY lacks, is telling the learner the rules of the grammar and how its used, and just throws sentences at you without teaching you the proper material beforehand.
@@ChimkenNugget exactly, i took the mandarin course and they started throwing number vocabulary into it without telling me what the characters meant and when they were suppose to be used-
I use it as a side tool for learning Czech, luckily I am learning it because my boyfriend is Czech so I have a native speaker to talk to whenever I want
I don't agree with your opinion. I started learning Norwegian with Duolingo only, I didn't use any books or other sources that time and I was learning from complete zero. After three weeks I was able to have a conversation in Norwegian with native Norwegian speaker.
Yeah, I think Duolingo works really well for making vocabulary learning less... Tedious. No part of me wants to sit and do endless drills to learn the vocab. But Duolingo made that part more fun. It for sure won't be enough all by itself, but better than the hundreds of hours of learning individual words
That point about Duo using behaviourism though! So true it made me crack up 😂😂😂 I use Duolingo too but it doesn't really get you anywhere, by itself at least. I prefer Lingodeer. Again, not used in isolation, but as additional practice along with watching videos on the target language and communicating with fluent speakers. I really like your channel! Keep up the great work!! 💪
Duolingo started my language journey. I was born in the U.S. but my girlfriend is from Austria. She speaks fluent English, but I wanted to learn German as well. I used Duolingo to learn German and was fluent in 2-3 months. Now, I can speak, understand, write, and read German. I'm currently learning Tagalog with other language apps :)
Learning about comprehensible input and immersion learning has definitely changed my Spanish learning! Looking forward to applying to other languages in the future, great video bro!
I lost too much time trying to learn in Duolingo, thank you so much! 🤕 Can you do a video about how did you learn Tagalog by yourself please?, I really love that language. 🙃❤
I love your Omegle videos speaking a lot of languages :D I'm brazilian and one day I want to be like you. Today I speak Portuguese (my native language), English and Spanish.
Hi Santiglot, this is the 2nd video of yours I have watched. I do understand your stance of animosity toward Duolingo as a language learning app. The gamification process is quite useful for people with ADHD to keep learning new words. It's not a one source solution at all, but it has proven to be a useful as something I want to visit every day when not being able to feel the same response with any other method. I've been using it as a supporting tool to watching polyglot videos featuring my target language and other resources such as posters. The sentences on that app are ridiculous, but they're also not the same thing as everyone else is putting out. Repetition is a valid way to learn words. I can appreciate that it's not as much as it would like us to believe, but I do still find that it is useful to myself and those I know who use it as a supportive tool.
My "animosity" is just performative, I don't hate Duo. I just think that it's ideology is awful. For example, as you well said, Duo appeals to people with short attention span... I don't want to encourage that behavior... I want people doing actual work. And if you want to do casual relaxed work, that's fine, but there are so many better alternatives to Duo, so many! Repetition is good, yes. But when gamification becomes an excuse for wasting our time using bad methodologies, I don't like that. I always recommend Anki, that's repetition too, but it actually works Anyways, thanks for you well thought-out comment, I appreciate it :)
:/ Idk, if you see you learn more Watching a video with the basics or with a child cartoon, I remember the unique thing I learn with Duolingo is how to say hello in Chinese and I eat an apple in French, and my English with Netflix subtitles hahaha
I really like duolingo as a casual learner. I'm not too concerned about learning to speak fluently, I just enjoy learning another language slowly in a casual capacity and duolingo is almost perfect in that regard. If you really want to learn a language to proficiency, I totally agree with Santi that you need other sources, you can't become fluent through duolingo alone, but it is pretty decent supplementary material.
Hola! Acabo de encontrar tu canal y me gusta tu contenido, pero debo decir que también me gustaría que hicieras videos en español (hablando español), creo que también podrías llegar a muchas personas 😅 y también de como has aprendido todos esos idiomas, ayudarías a muchos que estamos en este proceso y búsqueda de la mejor forma de aprender 🤗♥️
Soy nuevo jaja, dame tiempo. Sí, ya iré combinando videos más populares con videos más educativos, un poco de todo. Gracias por el apoyo, mucho mucho love
J'ai appris le français avec Duolingo, mais je te recommande d'écrire un peux de vocabulaire ou autres chose dans un cahier. N'utilise pas justemente l'applicatiom xD I did learn french with the help of duolingo, use the app but try to write some words on a notebook and don't just use the app xD
I would love to see more videos of you speaking German. I love your videos, and think it would really help me on my journey to learning German! Danke Schoen!
My German is really bad haha, although I think I could improve quickly if I took it seriously. thanks for the support and the best of luck to you in your journey!
Although I think Duolingo has taught me some basics of Spanish, I HATED the “game” aspect. Language should not be a leaderboard competition. I’m still trying new things to try and learn Spanish but I always feel embarrassed when I try to immerse myself in the community around me. I keep thinking that they’re thinking I’m just a weird “gringo” trying too hard. I love the language. I wish I could progress further than the basics. :(
Have you already tried Busuu? La encuentro mucho mejor desarrollada, si bien tiene un catálogo mas pequeño que Duolingo. Está clasificado por niveles (A1 hasta B2), tiene ejemplos de conversación típicos del día a día, se pueden practicar las palabras o lecciones por separado, se puede tomar un exámen de prueba, etc, etc.
I'd say for learning characters like hiragana or probably Cyrillic it wouldn't be so bad. I learned basic hiragana with duo lingo. What I think is bad is people using it as their only resource or for long periods of time in general.
I used to use Duolingo, it was fun in the first month but it never helps me much. I agree with you Santi, Human interaction is much more helpful than that app and that's what I did when I improved English. Muchas gracias Santi, Haré todo lo posible para aprender español 😁
@@santiglot Si, Ryan otra vez 🤣 De nada Santi. Me acabo de dar cuenta de lo mala que es esa aplicación, por eso me siento extraño con esa aplicación antes.
Duolingo would be great if it started simple and jumped into real conversations. Ive tried learning Norwegian, French, and Russian and barely any stuck cuz it was just weird sentences. Best used as a supplement but even then just use flashcards.
The most important thing to realise about using Duolingo is that it can’t be a substitute for actual study. It can be pretty helpful sometimes, if you don’t have time for actual study but still want to do something beneficial, but you’ll never be able to learn a language with just Duolingo.
Yo uso duo lingo todos los fines de semanas tengo que. Aprendiendo espanol no es facil, pero creo que Duolingo no es lo peor. Been about a month on Duo for me. Using that with applying my spanish at work everyday (luckily) and listening to spanish radio, television, music, ect. I've found has been pretty beneficial. I am ignorant to other apps out there but I think anyone can find a formula that works if you're truly dedicated to learning spanish.
What I find difficult is finding input at an absolute beginner level when I start a language. Most physical and internet materials for learning languages are present-practice, not communicative. Most reading and listening materials aren't both comprehensible (with limited new words at a time and high repetition) and communicative (reading or listening to it for the purpose of learning new information, building relationships, or for entertainment, not to practice vocab or grammar). The best approach seems to be searching RU-vid for teachers teaching the language using TPRS or CLT. Are there free resources to read, listen to, and watch things in a language that are both comprehensive and communicative for beginners?
Depending on the language finding interesting comprehensible content as an absolute beginner can be very difficult. But as I said, it depends a lot. What language are you learning? In general, I personally don't worry to much about that because I start talking with natives from day one, that's why I always get all the input I need and more.
I also like speaking right away, but it can be hard to find native speakers in person; and I think it's important to be able to read as well. I want to improve my Mandarin and Japanese and learn Korean, Russian, French, Arabic, and maybe German, Urdu/Hindi, and/or Vietnamese.
Duolingo realmente no sirve para aprender idiomas, solo lo uso para practicar(aprender vocabulario y repasar), es mejor aprender con cursos, videotutoriales, o libros, pero para aprender, Duolingo no es ideal, recomiendo Busuu, pero igual depende el idioma que quieras aprender.... Saludos....
duolingo works for me to learn vocab. and some grammar skills. but it definetly doesnt help you become fluent. this is why i also use pimsleur, books, and music to futher my knowledge
You do well. If you wanna upgrade from Duo, you can use Anki. Anki solves pretty much all the issues I listed in this video if you know how to use it. Thanks for sharing your opinion ;D
I'm still in the beginning of the video but, do you recommend something to learn a language? I would like to learn either Chinese, Spanish, or French. Thank you!
I think Duolingo is useful to an extent. It's good for learning words. But it's bad for learning sentences that will actually be relevant in the future. It's good because it does help with your accent. But it's bad because the "person" speaking is a robot. I prefer Memrise. That actually has real people recorded so you can hear how they speak. It's similar to the style of Duolingo but it covers a lot more topics and is a lot more relevant.
Hey santi, i do agree with what you say but i am still not interested in just watching videos in a language even though it could be a part of the learning. Are there any other apps or websites you could recommend that has helped you studying languages?
Una persona motivada aprenderá inglés de duolingo o traducción de canciones el método es lo de menos si no hay interés de aprender... Yo he usado Duolingo y la verdad su vocabulario es súper amplio y puedes aprender bastante, en dado caso usar Cake.
I have a question, many polyglots just like you, I suppose, are self taught when it comes to language learning... So Iwanted to ask... how do you learn any new language?
OMG WHY DOES ANYONE LIKE DUOLINGO????? Duolingo is perfect and it works very, very, very well to me! If you are a completely begginer duolingo is perfect to introduce you to the language, learn some grammar, vocabulary and of course, I know I can't learn a language only using duolingo, but you can learn Vocabulary very well. I can have basic conversation in French because of duolingo, and even though the phrases are kinda weird, it still works.
@@santiglot 我也是会说很多语言的人，我是巴西人，葡语是我母语。 Duolingo is not exactly a language learning app, the point is, it is perfect if you want to keep yourself motivated, maybe if you are not on mood or don't have enough time to dedicate yourself on learning a new language. You can't use only duolingo to learn a new language, you can't use only drops, rosetta Stone, whatever. Every app has a differents approaches and teaches by differents ways, there are some positives points and negatives points. The approach of "yey, you learned an useless phrase, take your prize" is amazing if you know how to use it to keep yourself focused and motivated to keep your interest and make you curious and interested enough to search by better methods and resources. I don't know if you can understand what I want to mean but... That's it... If you know how to use duolingo, it is amazing, but maybe it doesn't work for you as it for me, we are different, you have more experience, I'm quite new on developing methods so... Idk
hola tengo 12 años me a gustado mucho tu video eres una de las personas que me anima y me inspira a seguir estudiando idiomas muchas GRACIAS!!!!!!! me encantan tus videosss!
Opinión completamente personal. Creo que la gente es libre de escoger cualquier herramienta con la que se sienta cómoda para practicar. El hecho de que a ti no te haya ayudado como tú quieres, no quiere decir que esta app sea la peor. Sabes, por algo es una de las apps más populares y es el primer acercamiento de mucha gente con un nuevo idioma. Por supuesto, creo que solo usando Duolingo no vas a ser políglota, hay muchos más recursos y como tú dices mejores, pero creo que es un buen complemento, además que es un buen inicio y una manera divertida de acercarse al nuevo lenguaje, especialmente si no sabes nada acerca de ese lenguaje. Particularmente lo uso a diario, me ha permitido conocer la lógica básica de algunos idiomas en los que estoy interesado y reforzar conceptos de lenguajes que estoy aprendiendo. Lo uso solo 5 a 10 minutos , durante los tiempos muertos, al día, creo que eso lo puede hacer cualquier persona. Ese corto tiempo me motiva a indagar y practicar más ,entonces uso otros recursos. Además hay personas que no tienen todo el tiempo del mundo para aprender idiomas y tienen otras preocupaciones, así que 10 minutos usando una app que te gusta y te motiva a estudiar otro lenguaje, no veo que sea una pérdida de tiempo como tú mencionas. De nuevo , por su puesto puedes usar esos 10 minutos usando mejores recursos, que como dices hay muchos, pero si disfrutas usando Duolingo, no veo ningún problema. Acerca de la publicidad, solo son 5 a 10 segundos de publicidad ¿ es eso demasiado?, además es una aplicación gratuita y en mi opinión divertida. Algunos esperan que sea una aplicación 100% perfecta, pero olvidan que es gratuita y con el tiempo han estado haciendo muchas mejoras. Otra punto que tú criticaste son los recordatorios diarios, particularmente los encuentro útiles, no por el hecho de usar solo Duolingo, sino para recordarte que es necesario practicar diariamente o regularmente un nuevo idioma, entonces después de usar Duolingo, yo usualmente escucho algún podcast , leo algún artículo, veo algún video o hablo con algún nativo usando alguna app como Tandem o Hellotalk. Particularmente me gusta Duolingo a pesar de todas las críticas y fallas que todavía tiene, me ha permitido interesarme y amar mucho más los lenguages y espero que cada día mejore .
@@santiglot insinuas que no diferencio lo que es una opinión y un análisis, cuando tu ni siquiera sabes que son. A veces el exceso de ego no deja pensar a la gente, lo cual entiendo. Todo lo que dices en el video es solo una opinión de una app que a todas luces no te ha gustado para nada. Solo has comparado Duolingo con el imput comprensible, lo cual veo muy tonto, hasta estúpido. Por supuesto que Duolingo no se compara a un texto, un video o cualquier otro recurso con imput comprensible, es solo otra herramienta de aprendizaje .De nuevo, por supuesto que no vas a ser poliglota solo con Duolingo, es como decir que solo con Anki u otra app vas a aprender un nuevo idioma, son solo herramientas, cada uno con diferentes fines, no se pueden comparar, lo ves? Afortunadamente hay millones de usuarios de Duolingo que entienden esta diferencia. Luego de comparar( dos cosas que no tienen nada que ver y supuestamente eso es un análisis para ti) solo lo has criticado por el hecho de ser una app gratuita y algunas funcionalidades. Eso no es un análisis. De nuevo si no te ha ayudado a ti , no quiere decir que no haya ayudado o vaya a ayudar a otros. Todos aprendemos de diferentes maneras.
Duolingo is just "fun" way of learning some basic words and grammar. I always hated langs lessons in school and reading books etc its similiar to that i pref more media/interactive/virtual way of learning. Like ive learnt mostly by playing in games and after games i was watching alot of yt content. I had interactions with other ppl who did speak to me in english so i could analyze every sentence etc keep translating some english words etc. When I was living in UK(London) ppl could understand me pretty easily and i havent had any problems with speaking back to them even accent wasnt a problem at all. Duoling will make you learn slower, but more interactive way... which makes learning and doing something more fun and it can be a lil bit boring, but not in 100%. Its really "cheap" way of learning any fundamentals of langs and actually duolingo really does helps me with german and i understand much more every time im closing the app cause when i see germansentences or descriptions of IG's posts from german ppl i can understand every single time really more than the last time when i checked or saw german's sentences or anything about german. Obviously duolingo is not "the best" way of learning languages, but it really does help you with the fundamentals which are actually helping alot. I think that you're not enough objective about duolingo tbh. The easiest way will be always speaking with natives and thats the key, watching or listening to podcasts etc really does helps me for an example with british accent which im actually learning nowdays, so ye. P.S I also forget to mention.... I would like to use babel, but I don't have a money atm for such an app like Babel is actually and i think its one of the most mainstream apps which are actually really good :) Anyways I really do love your content, but I think you don't see the app as casual person sees it(or atleast you didnt seem like you know how does casual person thinks about the app)
La verdad todos empezamos por duolingo y lo abandonamos a la tercera lección xd Yo recomiendo Drops, es de muy baja calidad con respecto a autenticidad, no tiene contexto ninguno y simplemente te dan las palabras y traducciones, pero, sirve mucho para aumentar tu vocabulario en algún tema específico y con trabajo duro poder aprender a usarlo.
Ey josue, me alegro de verte por aquí. Sí, he probado Drops y no está mal. Pero a mí los drills... es que me relentizan en mi aprendizaje. Para mí Anki es lo mejor, porque se puede personalizar todo.
Yo creo que esta bien para aprender lo basico si no sabes nada del idioma, no creo que aprendas a hablar con duolingo, pero si aprendes las palabras basicas, yo aprendi muchas palabras que no conocia, lo que si veo un poco inecesario es hacer tantos niveles eso si.
I've only recently started learning swedish with frequency lists and duolingo. Do you have any other apps/ sites/ ways to learn swedish more efficient? Nice video!
I find it hard to find resources for Swedish, but this one is a good one. www.ur.se/sprakplay/?fbclid=IwAR3mV8lSxvKeLpjzUhwHT5rCuvApkLhM30e5s-8Xg0IKKkIeBJP3-pzcIqk
You mean the podcasts they make? That's an improvement, but still they are not very good. The audio is bad and everything is scripted in a rather unnatural way. Whatever YT video would provide ten times better input. Also, if you want podcasts there are a lot for free already on the internet. Good question ;D
Is there an app or website that you would recommend instead of duolingo? I realise that it isn't the best method but I don't know what other option to choose. The main language I'm learning is French and I'm also doing some Swedish and Japanese on the side (I will focus more on those when I think my French is at an acceptable level). Ps. I discovered your channel in the last week or two and enjoy your content, especially the omegle videos. Keep up the good work!
I only use Anki. You can personalized flashcards, thus you can avoid all the problems I listed in this video. Keep working hard and thanks for the support
Hey man I've only found your channel today but I would love to see how you learn languages (especially 中文）I know it's a very common thing that people go over but I don't feel like I'm going about learning Chinese in a very good way. I'm going to subscribe I hope you can do a video like that soon :) also thought I'd just add what I am doing in case you read this - - - I've been doing Anki flashcards a deck called Spoonfed with 8000 sentences that are sorted by difficulty and slowly introduce new vocab starting from the very basics. If I have a hard time remembering any words in particular I put them into another deck which I go over the next day before the Spoonfed deck. - - - I'm also trying to listen to a lot of Chinese songs and podcasts even though they are way above my level for now. --- That's it really I've been too nervous to try speak Chinese with my coworkers because I'm a bit shy and I don't want false praise which I know is something that's common with Chinese culture any tips would be amazing but it will keep notifications on just in case you do make a video on the topic of how you learn languages.
I new it was a bad app I just wasn't shore about it yet but now I come to my senses and realize that the app is pure garbage is not put together as well as it might b seen and most of the words don't make sense when we use them un sentences, so yeah thanks for helping me realize this Santiglot.
Ufff Duolingo sólo me sirvió una vez y fue para aprender vocabulario que nunca en mi vida voy a usar y sacarme una nota fácil en la clase de inglés cuando durante la pandemia de tarea debíamos hacer algunos ejercicios diariamente, más me han servido los videojuegos para aprender inglés y otros idiomas que esa app. PDT: Soy de Colombia :D
Duo is okay as the bare bones starting point for me. You cannot use this ap to advance in any way, even to upper beginner. And it certainly doesn't make you prepared to speak with others. HOWEVER the Duolingo podcast is WELL DONE. And honestly, for me, pimsleur is the absolute best to use as a starting point for a language. It actually gives me confidence to speak (vs my years of uni which makes me afraid of grammar mistakes). Anyways I've been studying Mandarin, Punjabi and Russian for years now. That's my two cents. I agree, no matter how much time I spend on the Duolingo ap, it never advances my skills.
I've checked the Spanish Duo podcast for example and it is an improvement compared to the app, but the content is still very low quality. So I wouldn't recommend those podcasts, because there are hundreds of others podcasts on the internet that are way better and free. People talk very well of Primsleur, but idk. I prefer always to find and create my own materials. Wish you the best in your studies xoxo
I don't know about you but I need to put the word 'cafe' into every sentence I know. Because apparently that's the only thing I'll be doing when I speak the language, according to duolingo.
I swear I was doing Russian I got an question that I know but it was wrong. I told a Russian friend of mine to see this and he said I was right. F***Duolingo.
What are the methods that you've used to learn languages? I'm fluent in my native language Portuguese, fluent in English, and Spanish. I am currently learning Italian using Duolingo and you are spot on about the app and system! I've started watching content in Italian with subtitles but I'd like to big deeper into Italian.
I'm sure you can start consuming native content in Italian since you already know Portuguese and Spanish. It make take a little bit of getting-used-to, but it's not difficult. Ánimo!
mm las interacciones lo único que hacen es ponerme nervioso, como un "no me digas nada" que no entiendo, aunque cuando hablan entre terceros entiendo mucho más :v
As far as learning words goes it OK, but needs to be part of a regime, not the whole thing. I am looking for a means to be able to talk to a native Spanish speaker interested in speaking English, which is my first language.
I used Duolingo when I started learning french from scratch. It helped me get acquainted with basic sentences. I stopped using it after a month out of boredom..lol
Just when I think you couldn't be any more impressive you reveal your knowledge of Moloch. Did you find out about Moloch thanks to your fluency in English?
I would have taken you seriously but your content is biased, it's obvious you either trying to put that app down for other personal reason or misinformed. you say " you learn nothing n duolingo content is really bad ? " I understand that it may not be as good as actual practice with a live person, but I noticed that now duolingo has reading, listening and testing, every day it asks you to find the words or sentence so for sure you did not learn nothing, If you do it just 20 minutes a day for a year I guarantee u ll know a ton more than if you had watched another of your youtube videos
I’ll be honest that I did start learning a language with duolino, but the constant notifications,l and emails is what drove me away from it. I still remember when I got an email saying “You made Duo sad :( “ after not doing anything for a few days. So now I’m using Rosetta Stone and Anki, but I’m not sure if that’s better. The “communicative method” sounds interesting, but I don’t think I’m anywhere near being able to hold a conversation.
Hahahaha poor owl, he was sad lmao. Anki is the best app you can use to grow your vocab, I use it everyday. The communicative method is just engaging with the language in a real way, you can do it by reading, chatting or talking, it doesn't matter if you can only say basic things or you make mistakes. No one is born knowing, don't worry. Wish you the best!
