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My girlfriend has been "learning" a language on Duolingo for about 5-6 years now, but rarely engages with her target language outside of Duolingo and some of he
by techjamie 1y ago
My girlfriend has been "learning" a language on Duolingo for about 5-6 years now, but rarely engages with her target language outside of Duolingo and some of her music library. She's been at roughly beginner level the entire time when, with proper language immersion and practice, she should realistically have a large vocab and be able to engage in casual conversation without looking up stuff. This is not the case.
I've just accepted for some time, to her chagrin, that she's effectively playing a game that just so happens to be language themed.
- baq 1y ago5 minutes per day for a year or two is about equivalent to ~2-3 weeks of traveling to your country of choice and just trying to talk with people on purpose. It’s probably easier to do in Italy than in Finland, but ultimately nothing beats just being there. Duolingo might just be enough to give you an okish on-ramp to that experience.
- hombre_fatal 1y agoThat's a feature, though. If she's too disinterested in making other moves like reading books or the news, then at least she still has that base Duolingo momentum that might make the move possible in the future. People always assume the alternative to Duolingo is that everyone will start a habit of reading BBC Mundo in Spanish or something, and it's obviously not true for many if not most people. And that's fine, some people are only going to scoot by with a dilettante level of interest until they take a real plunge.
- AlchemistCamp 1y agoSo trading daily time and effort for six years for an option on learning a language in the future?