Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a...
by coldtea on Saturday May 04, 2019 @06:30PM
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>1) Classes with other students are just about the least effective way to learn a foreign language. You just reinforce each others' bad accents, grammar mistakes, etc.
And yet, hundreds of millions of people have learned a foreign language that way.
In this corner of Europe it's de rigueur for everyone to study 2 or more foreign languages during middle and high school, and (some very rich kids with private tutors aside) everybody does it at foreign language schools with classes of 10-15 other people. It still works just fine.
And yet, hundreds of millions of people have learned a foreign language that way.
In this corner of Europe it's de rigueur for everyone to study 2 or more foreign languages during middle and high school, and (some very rich kids with private tutors aside) everybody does it at foreign language schools with classes of 10-15 other people. It still works just fine.