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I like that Duolingo gives me some kind of curriculum and guides me through new concepts so I'm exposed to new words and study them for a few days at a time. Bu
by hbn 1y ago
I like that Duolingo gives me some kind of curriculum and guides me through new concepts so I'm exposed to new words and study them for a few days at a time. But you have to be intentional with your learning to actually learn. Learning a language is hard, and Duolingo knows people will stop using their app if they challenge people too much and the app becomes a place to feel bad about how little Spanish you know. So their lessons are designed to be passable and not frustrating rather than a method of learning.
Some techniques I use is not looking at the words when they're being read out to practice my listening (though sometimes the TTS voices make things unnecessarily difficult to understand), and I also try not to look at the word bank before trying to translate a sentence in my head first.
My main wish from Duolingo is some kind of lesson I could go into that just grabs questions from old lessons with words/phrases you haven't done in a while. It's a little too easy to get into the swing of a unit where the words are fresh in your brain's cache, but having them pulled out from cold storage would makes sure you've actually got them locked into your memory.
Also they should have a setting to disable word banks so you're forced to type everything.
Seedlang seems cool though, I'm gonna give it a download later.
- eigenspace 1y agoSeedlang also has a curriculum design (and one that I think makes more sense). > My main wish from Duolingo is some kind of lesson I could go into that just grabs questions from old lessons with words/phrases you haven't done in a while. It's a little too easy to get into the swing of a unit where the words are fresh in your brain's cache, but having them pulled out of nowhere would makes sure you've actually got them locked into your memory Seedlang does this too. There's a gigantic library of all the exercises and you can go through them and put them in your review lists. Each time you review an exercise, you rate the exercise as 'hard' or 'easy', and depening on the rating, that exercise will then show up more or less often in the future. Eventually if the interval gets to be a year long, it'll give you the option to retire an exercise. Each time you do a lesson, it'll list all the exercises from that lesson and you can choose which ones you want added to your review queue. It's really nice. Lots of control over your own spaced-reptition needs. > Also they should have a setting to disable word banks so you're forced to type everything. Yeah definitely. Seedlang also does this btw!
- hbn 1y agoI'll definitely be giving it a shot!
- sumeno 1y ago> My main wish from Duolingo is some kind of lesson I could go into that just grabs questions from old lessons with words/phrases you haven't done in a while. This exists, but not for free users.
- hbn 1y agoI am paying, whatever you're thinking does this is not doing it very well. Occasionally there will be lessons that claim to target "weak skills" but I don't believe they're doing anything very sophisticated to determine what a "weak skill" of mine is because they're always a cakewalk.