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Not relevant to the discussion but possibly for you: I discovered this 100% free no-signup audio-only course for Greek through a previous HN post. Amazing appro
by lock-the-spock 4y ago
Not relevant to the discussion but possibly for you: I discovered this 100% free no-signup audio-only course for Greek through a previous HN post. Amazing approach (like Michel Thomas but more charming and modern and free!):
https://www.languagetransfer.org/about https://www.languagetransfer.org/about
Of all the language apps I used Duolingo has by far been the least useful. I've spent hundreds of hours but took barely anything away (for FR, ES) If you must pay go to a proper app with structured learning, like babble or something language specific.
- jddj 4y agoLanguagetransfer taught me Spanish about 10 years ago, really excellent approach.
- NKosmatos 4y agoHey, thanks for this recommendation! I’m Greek and I’ve never heard of LanguageTransfer before (it’s even created by another Greek, Michalis). I used for a few months the free tier of Duolingo in the past, but it wasn’t to my liking and although it helped a bit, I can’t say it taught me Spanish (perhaps the paid version is better). For sure I’m going to try the free Spanish course from LanguageTransfer ;-)
- contr-error 4y ago+1 for language transfer, great execution of a great method.
- thewebcount 4y agoThanks! I read about it previously on HN, but haven’t had a chance to check it out. I’m going to do that now. For what it’s worth, I have learned stuff with Duolingo, but it could be so much more (for me) if they’d get feature parity with some of the other languages. I get that Greek probably doesn’t have a lot of people trying to learn it, but it’s sad.
- minxomat 4y agoFollow up recommendation: for Spanish, “Madrigals Key” is language transfer in book form. It can in fact be used as a workbook for this course.