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I blame Duolingo. Two months with their app brought me from not knowing any Esperanto to being terrible at it.
by dsr_ 9y ago
I blame Duolingo. Two months with their app brought me from not knowing any Esperanto to being terrible at it.
- ravenstine 9y agoI never learned much from Duolingo. It makes learning languages incredibly boring, and my eyes would glaze over every one of the dozens of times I had to match/construct some variance of "der junge trinkt die milsch." I learned more German just reading English translations of Rammstein lyrics. Anything by Pimsleur is still not very interesting, but at least it can hold my attention.
- Tannic 9y ago“Tell the girl you would like to go up to her apartment for a drink.”
- stevenjohns 9y agoConsider coupling Anki[0] with one of the many existing German decks out there[1]. I've been using it for Spanish[2] and I've found it to work extremely well. It has somewhat brought back my interest after Duolingo became repetitive. [0] https://apps.ankiweb.net/ https://apps.ankiweb.net/ [1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/german https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/german [2] https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/spanish https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/spanish
- adrianN 9y agoAnki is pretty awesome. I spent about 1000h learning Japanese with Anki so far. Together with Yomichan it's pretty much the ultimate learning tool, imho.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoI learned more French from a day of trying to read Le Petit Prince in French, with the English translation beside, than I did from 3 months of Duolingo. Rote learning just doesn't work that well for most people.
- ringaroundthetx 9y agoDuolingo also assumes it can condition you without teaching you the exceptions AT ALL And thats annoying AF Five seconds of a teacher or native speaker telling you the reason is way more valuable
- Hendrikto 9y agoJust FYI, it is: „Der Junge trinkt die Milch.“ German quotes are weird, Junge and Milch are capitalized, and Milch is spelled with ch, not sch.
- ravenstine 9y agoThank you. It's been a while.
- F_r_k 9y agoI find Memrise much more interesting and "powerful". It only shows you sentences and relies on your brain to know how the grammar works (a bit like how a child learns how to speak).