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What are Duolingo/Babel not doing that they should?

• Mikeb85 7y ago
  They're shit for teaching grammar, verb conjugations and the vocabulary is quite limited, in some cases not even close to what native speakers use.
  • spockz 7y ago
    I learned Italian from my mother and grandmother and other family so I can do okay in general conversation. However, conversing with young people is a different thing altogether. They speak faster and less articulated, and use a completely different vocabulary/slang. So it is not just about which technology tools you use but also who you talk with.
  • rando444 7y ago
    I agree that they're bad at teaching grammar. That said, I believe it's also the user's fault if they're only using one tool to learn a language. That's quite a high bar that just simply hasn't been achieved yet, and at the moment I would consider it an unreasonable expectation.
  • dazc 7y ago
    I have found Duolingo great for revising basic vocabulary (Spanish) but, yeah, for grammar not at all. I have also found that anything I have really learned (in a sense that I don't need to revise, I just know it) has not come from the comfort of an app but from the real struggle of trying to converse with someone in their native language.