Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learning Material

Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by chrischen on Thursday April 12, 2018 @05:08PM (#16824950)

I’m trying to learn Japanese and 99% of the apps out there focus on memorizing phrases out of context that could be applied to any topic, and market itself as a language learning system.

I’ve yet to find a single app that beat out a one-time read through of a Japanese grammar guide.

That being said memorization apps can be useful, such as for vocabulary, but I’ve yet to find an app that markets itself as that.

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Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by travv0 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @05:46PM (#16825190)

> That being said memorization apps can be useful, such as for vocabulary, but I’ve yet to find an app that markets itself as that.

What about Anki?

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Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by chrischen on Friday April 13, 2018 @11:51AM (#16831162)

I’m using StickyStudy, which is built just for JLPT official vocab sets.

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Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by ajmurmann on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:29PM (#16826720)

I've been using Anki as called it by a sibling. I'm not super excited about it because everything about it is just a mess. But the are great pre-made decks and it's easy to find help because so many people use it. There is also memrise which seems to be gaining in popularity. If you are using Genki the publisher provides their own mobile apps.

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Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin... by sotojuan on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:05PM (#16826865)

Skip the apps and hit the books. Apps aside from Anki are useless.

https://djtguide.neocities.org/guide.html

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