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June 18th, 2020 at 2:42 PM
I use duolingo and have for 6 years now. The pronunciations are awful on duolingo. What's especially bad is when you have a word and it's pronounced one way in one sentence and another way in another sentence.
And no, i cannot speak any language past just a little bit. I cannot read things in the languages i've been learning and i especially cannot understand them when spoken. And i've worked hard to learn them. That may just be because i'm a slow learner and not duolingo at all.
It's hard learning a language and then not use it. I keep forgetting what i learned.
I would recommend duolingo, but also would recommend using what you learned by reading and listening to materials in that language.
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June 18th, 2020 at 2:56 PM
(June 18th, 2020 at 2:42 PM)Towncrafter Wrote: I use duolingo and have for 6 years now. The pronunciations are awful on duolingo. What's especially bad is when you have a word and it's pronounced one way in one sentence and another way in another sentence.
And no, i cannot speak any language past just a little bit. I cannot read things in the languages i've been learning and i especially cannot understand them when spoken. And i've worked hard to learn them. That may just be because i'm a slow learner and not duolingo at all.
It's hard learning a language and then not use it. I keep forgetting what i learned.
I would recommend duolingo, but also would recommend using what you learned by reading and listening to materials in that language.
That's not a great testimonial for duolingo if you've been using it for six years and haven't learned any other languages lol
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June 19th, 2020 at 6:31 PM
I really like the presentation of the Duolingo app but I was looking at German and I had a German friend with me and literally everything that came up she was like "Yeah, nobody would say that" so it put me off.
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June 20th, 2020 at 3:36 PM
I'm glad you guys mention that. I've played around with Duolingo quite a bit, but it seems to be a bit oversimplified in terms of what I'd actually expect.
I'm learning Spanish for university and would like to learn a third on the side on my own in the next few years. Duolingo seems to be a good tool in conjunction with other resources, but not by itself.