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When learning languages the things you should learn first are food, health and shelter. Just by knowing a few key phrases in the main categories and the probab
by theshrike79 2y ago
When learning languages the things you should learn first are food, health and shelter.
Just by knowing a few key phrases in the main categories and the probable answers to those in a language will help you get by a lot better than "I like to ride my bicycle in the rain on the weekends" :D
Functional fluency over grammatical competence.
- marssaxman 2y agoThanks - that's not a perspective which had ever occurred to me. I just assumed that learning a new language would require a long period of steady practice, and that's what Duolingo seems to be built for; but if people are often approaching it looking for something more like a glorified tourist phrasebook, I can see why they might complain about the abstract nature of the practice sentences.