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Duolingo can get you surprisingly far for vocabulary and alphabet memorization, but it will not bring you to functional fluency since it simply doesn't have any
by ehnto 4y ago
Duolingo can get you surprisingly far for vocabulary and alphabet memorization, but it will not bring you to functional fluency since it simply doesn't have any practice for that in it. They have tried to correct this for some languages, adding in 'stories'.
All that said, it was actually a really great introductory program that made language learning more approchable. As an early intro and vocabulary supplement it is great. After that you will want to seek greater depths of learning and get immersed in content of the target language.
- voisin 4y ago> functional fluency Defined as verbal communication only? It has got me far enough so far that I can read certain newspapers with good comprehension. (I am at Intermediate 2 on Duo, so I suspect this will improve further)
- jghn 4y agoBasic fluency is usually considered to be at the B2 level. Duolingo is generally viewed as topping people out around the A2/B1 range, depending on the language. I've seen them claim that their more thorough classes can get you to B2 but that would definitely not be the case halfway through their course material.