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Let me repeat: some people cannot learn faster than this, they need gamification. Hence my statement: Duolingo is better than nothing for these.

• simplotek 4y ago
  > Let me repeat: some people cannot learn faster than this, You missed the whole point: people do not learn with this approach, regardless of speed. The only benefit is keeping people engaged in a skinner box while watching ads, and selling them ways around keeping their track record engaged with said skinner box unbroken.
  • illiac786 4y ago
    It works for some people, clearly, as stated by some on this very thread. I hope you will not move from "Duolingo is useless for everyone on this earth" to "anyone saying Duolingo is useful for her/him is in denial"...
  • watwut 4y ago
    The issue here is that what you wrote is just not true. I did Ukrainian for a year. I started to be able to understand some of the content around a year in. I started to be able to parse Cyrillic. I did tried other apps here and there, but none of them stuck for more them two days. Overwhelming majority, like almost all of what I learned is from Duolingo. The progress was actually very real, painless and fine. I did not expected to be fluent. I improved more then would be possible without it.