500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app

Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by duncan-donuts on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:21PM (#19827823)

This sounds amazing. I used Duolingo for about a year to learn Swedish. I got pretty good at reading it and hearing it, but never could speak it very well. Had I decided to learn French or Spanish I’d have a lot more opportunity to talk with other people, but I picked Swedish because it seemed interesting and easy for an English native to pick up. I would totally buy a VR rig just to do this.

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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by dawnerd on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:25PM (#19827843)

Literally did the same last year with Swedish. Kind of amazing how easy it was to pick up vs French.

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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by adventured on Saturday May 04, 2019 @02:17PM (#19828197)

What kind of a time investment did it require on a day to day basis? In the last few weeks I've been eyeing Babbel and Duolingo as good options to get started learning a particular language.

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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by dawnerd on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:45PM (#19829581)

Maybe an hour or so a day. If you're not talking with someone else the trick is to do it every single day. If I missed a day I lost a lot of momentum.

Also I'd recommend looking at Memrise. Their voice seems a lot better than duolingo's at least.

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