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No one source of language learning material will bring you to fluency. There's a great community of language learners over at the Language Learners Forum [1] (n
by mtalantikite 3y ago
No one source of language learning material will bring you to fluency. There's a great community of language learners over at the Language Learners Forum [1] (note: it's been down the past few days but seems to be back up, although slow).
One resource that seems to be universally loved over there is Assimil [2]. I've been working through one of their courses and it's been great. I augment it with youtubers that make comprehensible input videos at my ability level, as well as with iTalki lessons.
I tried Duolingo once many years ago, but there's no way that memorizing words is going to get you all the way there. You need reading, writing, listening, and speaking practice in real world situations.
[1] https://forum.language-learners.org/ https://forum.language-learners.org/
[2] https://www.assimil.com https://www.assimil.com
- simlevesque 3y agoAssimil is great. My personal favorite ressource is Lingolia [1] [1] https://lingolia.com https://lingolia.com
- louthy 3y ago> I tried Duolingo once many years ago, but there's no way that memorizing words is going to get you all the way there. You need reading, writing, listening, and speaking practice in real world situations I’m not disagreeing that multiple sources is necessary, but describing Duolingo as just a “memorising words” app is wrong. It has reading, writing, listening, speaking, and conversation exercises.
- mtalantikite 3y agoThat’s totally fair, I haven’t tried to use it in more than 5 years and it’s probably a lot more than I remember. It didn’t work for me though and I just wish I had found Assimil a long time ago. If people find it a useful tool and it has helped them gain fluency though that’s great!