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Re:Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo by jddj on Monday January 27, 2020 @09:10AM (#22159326)
As someone who followed the same method (DuoLingo for vocab, start reading, start talking) and now speaks a second language fluently, I'm not OP but I'll go ahead and vouch for their comment.
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Re:Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo by graeme on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:41AM (#22160287)
Great! Did you complete the tree, or just do some then switch to reading and talking?
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Re:Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo by jddj on Monday January 27, 2020 @05:33PM (#22164550)
Completed the tree, but admittedly it was shorter back then.

I also did it in parallel with the Language Transfer podcast, which I've mentioned on HN before but is an amazing resource for understanding how a new language works structurally and grammatically.

I did find Duolingo valuable, but purely for vocab.

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