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It prevented you from learning anything? You really would have been better playing Candy Crush? Like other comments say, there's a lot of misguided hate toward
by groggo 3y ago
It prevented you from learning anything? You really would have been better playing Candy Crush?
Like other comments say, there's a lot of misguided hate towards Duolingo. The lack of original criticism is almost a meme.
Duolingo is fun and addicting, and it 100% helps you learn vocab and grammar. You can argue that it's not sufficient to fully learn a language, but no single tool is. You need to mix it with other media, podcasts, music, immersion, and personal lessons. But it's a great starting point. You can argue that there's more efficient, non-gamified ways to learn the basic vocab and grammar, but for a lot of people that's too much effort or not as fun because it's not gamified.
- jeffrallen 3y agoI have learned other languages and I know the feeling of a successful study session. Duolingo is not it. It's a quick hit of, "ok, got the points for the day" or whatever, and the next day same thing. The words I learned went into some place in my brain related to getting points in video games, not into the language part of my brain.
- BossingAround 3y agoIt might prevent you from spending time on a different learning method, which would most likely be a lot more efficient than duolingo.