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Immersion is absolutely essential to language learning and English has an abundant amount of resources, as you say. I understand the difficulties you've had wi
by least 5y ago
Immersion is absolutely essential to language learning and English has an abundant amount of resources, as you say.
I understand the difficulties you've had with getting immersed with German, given that my target language while in the military had very little content period, let alone things I was particularly interested in. It might be worthwhile to look for German translations of works you've read/watched in your native language or English, though, if you're still interested in learning it.
> I feel duolingo has the same problem - no matter how much you "learn" with the app, it won't ever stick unless you can practice somewhere in the real world.
Yeah, there's too many methods you need to use to facilitate language learning and while Duolingo can potentially fill a lot of these holes, I don't think it can be your holistic one stop shop.
- davidzweig 5y agoWe're expanding LLN into this: https://www.languagereactor.com/ https://www.languagereactor.com/ "Language Reactor ... helps you to discover, understand, and learn from native materials." It's still rough. TurtleTV is kind of useful already. (P.S. looking for a good mobile dev in Europe).
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- least 5y agoLearning Language with Netflix is a great resource and I'm really happy to see you're expanding! This looks awesome! And yeah, anyone that's trying to learn a language should definitely try immersing with a tool like this. Connecting words with things on screen and hearing different people speak are really useful, and your retention of vocabulary is going to be better when you can see it in different contexts.
- itronitron 5y agoIf you use Netflix and VPN into Germany or Austria to watch movies then many of them have closed captioning offered only in German.