"The woman ate an apple" lol, yeah those sentences seem useless at first. I try to use them around the house in different ways so I can keep that vocabulary in my head, but that's a major reason why I didn't like Pimsleur and various books I bought, because they were targeted at business people that traveled and were looking to rent a room for the night, rent a car, find the nearest restaurant, etc. I want to be able to watch Spanish soap operas, watch Italian movies, read German articles, etc. lol. But I guess we all have to start somewhere - back to the woman eating apples for me :)
im about half way down and once you get passed numbers and verbs it becomes so much better im able to talk to my grandma who speaks fluent french. i am not fluent yet but im able to say sentences like where you going. can i go to. bring me some milk. what day is the party? it gets more advanced when i find myself taking longer to complete the lessons vs the first few lessons
Exactly!! It's nice that you get all aspects instead of only greetings and important sentences that wouldn't reallt make you fluent but might help you hold a basic conversation in that language. On the other hand, the fact that Duolingo throws you so much of the language (vocabulary, numbers, grammar/tenses, as well as common phrases) means that you should focus sometimes on the important/common stuff. It's not saying you should only do that, but that should be one of your top priorities you know? Idk I'm not really sure what I'm trying to get at here.
There are a few components to teaching yourself to speak Spanish quickly . One place I found that succeeds in merging these is the Fergs spanish blueprint (check it out on google) without a doubt the most useful treatment that I have ever seen. Look at all the interesting information .
FYI, since this video was posted, DuoLingo has added a few Asian languages. Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean are all currently available, and they are developing Indonesian and Hindi. I believe Tagalog may be in the planning stages.
+steven gao well, there's nothing wrong with learning that sentence... vocab and sentence structure are both useful but my general philosophy is to try to focus on learning vocab and sentences that are as interesting and useful to me as possible
I've been learning Danish with Duolingo for some months now, and I think it has helped me a lot. I have a Danish friend, and I'm always trying to text her and send voicenotes and calls in Danish, and she always corrects me if I have something wrong. So far, I've been able to watch Danish TV shows, Disney movies and listen and understand music. Also, I've been trying to read short stories and books, with a dictionary whenever I find a new word, and looking up for grammar whenever I get stuck with conjugations or declensions xD
Karl A. Osorio Do you have any recommendations for Danish TV shows that have good and exact subtitles in Danish? I am also trying to learn and speak Danish and was looking for a good source for listening to native speakers.
Duo-lingo is great for a free resource but I agree with your comments. I think Duo-lingo is a great extra tool when you have a little bit of spare time but it shouldn't be your main resource :)
i am a english 17 year old and i am willing to learn italian out of interest also becuase of my family and friends. i have been learning it for a few weeks now and i can say a few sentences and i can understand lots of words. my struggle is fixing sentences together and the right grammar. i talk to friends in italian all the time but i want to learn it more ways without getting bored. do you have any recommendations that you could give me to learn this without paying. (tv,music,games, apps? thanks brandon.
+brandon dring hey Brandon, congrats for your awesome level of interest in learning Italian! It's such a beautiful language, isn't it? First of all, I would say don't stress about the grammar, since it comes together with time. If you'd like, you can find exercises online for free that will help you with it along with sentence building. I would recommend memrise for vocabulary building as well as LingQ (you can use it for free up to a certain level)... most important of all, always look for content that interests you in Italian and stay motivated :) good luck!
I find that combining Duolingo and Pimsleur really helps. There is also a program on steam called influent that I also use for vocabulary. And I also realized that if I right down the vocabulary words and place them around the house with sticky notes It really cements them into my memory.
you can listen to italian songs, that really helps to get use to how they speak and try to learn new words without getting bored. Also, you could download the lyrics, delete some random words without listening to the song first. And then, you can try to write down the words you understood they are singing.
Something that worked for me was finding the set of duolingo vocab on memrise and learning the vocab on memrise before doing the lesson on duolingo. I get the vocab down on memrise first and then not worry about vocab while learning grammar on duo.
I like duolingo because it's free and It's very colourful, I am from the Netherlands so I can speak Dutch and English but after duolingo I can speak parts of different languages
Try the "Michel Thomas' and "Language Transfer" (free French, Italian, Swahili, Greek, Spanish, German) method. You'll be speaking immediately and you'll understand the target language grammar!!!!. These methods basically talk you through the language grammar and then ask you to say things and *surprise* you can!!!! Duo actually helped a lot for me to get to the talking you through method. With Duo, I could read and write but still unable to start a sentence. When I started using the language transfer and Michel Thomas method, all the Duo vocabulary made sense.
Tomas Kuli I already speak Greek and German, i am not having any interest in the rest language that the site offers, i am interested in Russian and Swedish and unfortunately they do not have these languages there!
Maria Michel Thomas may have those languages. I get my tapes from the library. its the method of learning. Very easy. Check his website, maybe you'll find the languages you want. My comment stands for those interested in the languages that offered free on language transfer. I listen through sound cloud. Good luck.
I'm doing just well with Duolingo for now, obviously, I'm not soul-y relying on it though. It's probably because we're all different in that big, but small brain of ours.
I'm using DuoLingo now to learn both Spanish and French. I plan on learning German and Italian on DuoLingo as well down the road just for fun. The two Romance languages of Spanish and French are the ones I want to become proficiently and professionally fluent in. The reality is that DuoLingo does not make anyone fluent in any particular language. It however provides a solid and basic foundation for developing the essential rudimentary skills for embarking on the pathway towards fluency in a certain foreign language.
I do not know how you learned other languages at school but we too, started with questions like 'The woman eats an apple" or "The man is rich" or "The man and the woman are sitting" so yeah, it is not that different for me. And also, it helps you get a hold of the language while using simple sentences, not complicated phrases. And it can sometimes be fun to have some crazy sentences :)
it's not important whether you'll use a particular sentence in Duolingo or not. the main thing is it's coxing you to understand the language structure. Amharic would be an awesome course😎.
+توم ريتشاردز I partly agree. For sure it helps one better understand and internalize language structure, but I personally find that Duolingo doesn't have enough resources to let you actually internalize those structures. At least for me, I usually won't remember much after doing even a bunch of lessons. However, if I copy down important phrases and review them with different strategies then I can internalize them a lot better.
I recommend duolingo for building vocabulary, it teaches you a lot of words, used in many different situations, and already understanding most of the French grammar duolingo is really building a great vocabulary for me, I would recommend it to refine a language more than anything.
I use the Duolingo app as well. I' m brazilian and even though I'm fluent in english I study english everyday to improve more and more my learning skills because of my goals and because it became my passion! See you!
+Rasta Mon thank you, sir! Memrise is indeed pretty good. I've used it a lot for Chinese characters and the memory associations really help... but I had been neglecting it since I was focusing on other languages. That being said I shall start using it again :)
Rasta Mon duolingo is more for making sentances and learning how to do basoc structures while mesmerise is great for expandi g vocabulary. a lot do both. or do duo and then mesmerise
You are awesome! Liked the video:) I love Duolingo, it has really helped me build my skills on French and Spanish and I will be starting to learn German soon!
+Kevin Carter I think it's a matter of where you're at. At beginner levels I think Duolingo can be a good way to spend your time as you're learning a language. Also, I'm a firm believer in using multiple resources so you can learn the language by being exposed to it in different ways. So, in short, it's hard to determine the best way since it depends on your level and current goals.
In this video you said they do not have any aisian languages, but in the 2 years since this video has been posted they have a Mandarin Chinese course, a Japanese course, and a Korean course (I’m probably missing something).
As of now, Mandrin Chinese and Japanese are on DuoLingo. I had wanted to learn Arabic, but, it is not yet available. I'm having fun with Esperanto, French, Spanish, Turkish and Chinese. I had started Russian as well, but the Alphabet is going to require very concentrated work, so I've postponed that for now. I'm spending about an hour and a half a day broken up as I have time between the five I'm sticking to, though I don't beat myself up if I have to let life get in the way. I would suggest anyone who wants to use it as a solid introduction only as a curiosity, to see if you're actually interested in putting the effort toward learning languages, start with Esperanto and give it an honest fifteen to twenty minutes a day for a week. Don't sweat that you're going to be "cheating" constantly at first, clicking on the words to piece together the meaning of the earliest sentences. That is not going to keep you from realizing around day three or four that you're beginning to think a little more in the language you're studying. It begins to come pli rapide. More quickly. When you finish your week, go back and click open each earlier lesson in order and there is a section at the end of each lesson to review weaknesses. Going through those at the end of each week or at the end of each session will greatly strengthen what you've learned. After your first week you'll know that you can do this and you'll know if you want to. At that point, I'd say it's time to add just one other language (if you have the time: you'll need an additional fifteen to twenty minutes for the new language.) Don't go crazy! One more is going to be enough for now or you'll likely have trouble separating one from the other and you'll hurt your progress in both. I have found, since I'm doing five at once, that I have to give myself time in between my language sessions in order to not type "Jes," (yes in Esperanto,) instead of "Si," (Spanish,) and such. I suggest Esperanto because I think if you're like me and don't remember a damn thing from High School French except that I hated the class and didn't get the girl I took it to impress, Esperanto has the very highest likelihood of giving you those early successes that will then give you the confidence to succeed in any other language you choose. DuoLingo is a start, and a good one, and maybe enough if you're just interested for self edification/education, but be prepared to find more formal and intensive tools/programs when you're done if you want to gain true fluency. DuoLingo ends you at a basic conversational level relatively quickly, but it is by no means comprehensive. Last suggestion: keep a vocabulary notebook and write every new word at least at first. It's a lot like learning another language. You have to study and put in the effort. That's my unsolicited two cents.
I like the tone of your voice! your accent is very good and clear 😁 , I'm using it for French, but I know that is not going to make me fluent... I've used for English in the beginning, but as you said, it's only a complement, not the main tool to learn any language!
As you stated, Duolingo is not the entire thing. But, for sure, a decent little complement. And let me update , recently , Japanese , Korean and Mandarin were added.
You Screen Shot. I take Notes. It had been my study habit to write out Notes with pen and paper, (I know cursive too!), when studying for my College Degree(early ’80’s). The act of Writing it Down is a powerful tool, for me, when it comes to memorizing things. Then I will review my notes afterwards. I especially like to note sentences that I want to have in my vocabulary like: “J’ai Dépression Clinique Majeure.” (just in case) Last time I lived there I believe my Hotel Owners thought I was on Drugs when in fact, to pull through a Depression, absolute rest is the cure. So, they were curious why I holed up in my room so long when in fact I was ill and used the tool that I knew worked best to recover!
It has helped a lot through studying english language but I have a feeling that if I just had used it alone it wouldn't have been able to teach everything I've got. You have to put on work what you learn watching movies, series, etc...
Great video! I use mainly memrise and duolingo, besides vocabulary lists and tv show, songs... but what's the free websites/apps that you recommend me to learn the languagues? The ones that you use and now that after using them all you are fluent in that language. Please, answer me!
What I do with duo lingo is only do one new lesson a day. Then I go back and revew one or two lessons that I completed already each day so that I can get the repatition. It helps me!
Time consuming, but if you want to learn a language do it right. That means don't rush, don't be lazy/practice everyday, and go as slow as you want while not rushing.
I have to set the default language to the one I'm learning and say I want to learn English for it to be any use, because it rarely ever asks you to translate into the language you're learning.
i do all the steps in duolingo but when i fished,i dont feel that i have the level a1 in german.i learn now with memrise and is better than duolingo for me.now
try to use " schritte " a cource book with exercises at the end of it , its really amazing! it took me 2 and a half months but i have finished schritte A1 & got a really good mark , it comes with a cd too . now ill continue on schritte A2 besides duolingo app its good for revision ...also the linq website concidered to be a great tool . good luck !
+fatima zohra yeah i knowing this book .i will buy this book one day its 6books in total.for me menschen book is good cause they have cd and dvd room.thank you! in memrise i found this book there for study german and the book studio d too and all the book to schritte
I agree they definitely need to add more languages / make it more challenging for more fluent speakers. BUT - STILL LOVE Duolingo. Was so happy when it was released and god it has come so far! I just read an article on Upgraded Points this morning on the best language learning apps and I hadn't heard of any but Duolingo. It had a ton of other great options and I'd be curious to see how they compare / if anyone else has tried the others! Check out the post on Upgraded Points' website and lmk!
I agree that it is fun. I am studying French. I learned some via immersion only when I lived there and picked it up via necessity. Duolingo I also find a bit addicting.. but am worried about my aptitude when it comes to Conversing with anyone.
Boa noite. Tenho uma dúvida. Não sei nada mas nada mesmo inglês. Com seu curso consigo fazer as aulas do zero? Porque para mim é um investimento que não posso perder. Vou abrir mão de algumas coisas para fazer o curso. Obrigado
That's hard to say... Understanding in my opinion really comes from doing a decent amount of listening along with reading, ideally. I'd say it would be good to complement Duolingo with listening + reading to develop good enough understanding.
I think you'll be able to read signs, menus and information stuff, pretty well. I'm learning Welsh in a class but wanted an app to revise during the week. I've found its helped my ability to read and understand the language rather than speak the language.
The woman eats an apple is not an effective sentence that you will be using but what it does is teach you the words, so let me explain, "the woman eats an apple" you will read that and pick up certain words like "the" you can use that in other sentences
Well, the English-from-German course is... At least a course, and there are many worse resources. But I think for complete beginners the difficulty would progress too fast, and for advanced learners the vocabulary is too small. And there are problems with the translation of English time tenses. For example, we have a time tense in German that looks exactly like the English past with 'to have'. It's builded in the same way, and the German 'haben' is used for it and also means 'to have'. But there *is* a difference! That is: There is no difference between this tense and the 'normal' past tense in German relating the 'event horizon' and time. We just use the 'haben'-past in spoken German and the other one only in written German. (Can't understand why everyone says German has a difficult Grammar 🤔) So, Duolingo isn't to blame for that, but it shows the limits of the method, which, in my opinion, is very good all in all. In the chapters about the English time tenses the useful stuff relating to that issue is hidden in the user comments! And there are not only other users, but also mods helping with explanations and links to other sources. The Spanish-from-English course is... incredible! 😍 Big stories section, and as far as I know these are the only "graded readers" for A(0). They are also really fun, and you can click on an expression and get the translation for it. And introductions in new language structures in easy language, without any grammar terms! I'm in heaven! And I'm already through with all the stuff from the A1 level and even more and there's still endless tons of chapters. So I think the Spanish course would lead the learner to a decent level.
I wish duolingo had Latin. I'm currently a Latin 3 student, and after each summer it gets harder and harder to remember everything we learned the year before. Duolingo would make it easy for me to keep up on my Latin each year, even though it's not a spoken language, and not required for my life at all. I really enjoy the language, and wish it was recognized a bit more.
Je suis en cours de français ce semestre. We use Horizons edition 3 as our text book and I've found that Duolingo has been a great companion with the text book. In some cases it has helped me get ahead and prepare for the future.
Duolingo taught me how to ask someone for a lighter before teaching me how to say Mom and Dad....good starting place perhaps, especially for spelling/writing and reading but I think I learned more about speaking and listening through Pimsleur. I haven’t tried many others though besides those two!
I screenshoot Duolingo lessons only to never go back to review them. I think simple sentences are more important in more agglutinating languages like German; we are able to see the grammar and how it works through them.
For people complaining about duolingo, if you are interested in learning the language, any method can help you get there, its about how much effort you put in. Plus for the price, how can you complain. Geesh go get a tutor then.
I see duolingo as a tool to learn really basic levels of a language but if you want to go further you will need to get some other sources such as a goos dictionary on your smartphone, a comunity where you can exchange knowledge with other learners and native speakers who can clarify your doubts and some research at google😅 it takes time but it is worthy😊
Thanks for the video. I think is a good tool to understand and have a good vocab in the language. Also I think that the strange phrases are putting there to take your attention 🤔 😄. What I like about duolingo is I can have all my interesting languages all in the same place and I can see my progress and I can training what I learned. But what I didn't like that I am interested with the basic conversations in the first time but you have to wait for and I would like to learn by dialogue after each circle (we finish it) because we need to talk more than read. Also I made a huge progress with watching series and using duolingo that make the coming lessons more easy 💕💕💕
It's kinda good if you combine it with youtube videos (nowadays they're a lot of classes on youtube to learn the laguage you want) at least it will save you some money if you currently don't have any to pay a language course, which can be expensive. Also, you would not have to pay a level A1 in an institute, which is stupid.
great vedio thanks ! plz i need an advice on learning hebrew , I've stoped for i cant read any thing without the Niqud ! all books , articles and everything is without Niqud , and i can't read only Torah ! how did you learned it , im amazed !
+fatima zohra hello Fatima! I would be happy to help but my Hebrew is at a basic level (and it keeps getting worse since I don't get to practice it often). My focus was exclusively on conversational and while I intend on learning it to speak fluently one day, I still have long ways to go. :)
+Fluent ASAP Thank you so much & i wish you the best of luck ! what about japanese & korean ? can you advice on how to learn kanji & Hungle for they are so confusing !?
I've been using duolingo recently but I've not been finding it so useful for Russian as even after many reviews of the chapters the spellings simply don't stick with me despite me understanding and being able to use the words in conversation...
+Dan Simons Yeah, I feel the same way unless I somehow use what was learned in another "system". One thing that I find helpful especially with Russian (since I'm only really getting comfortable with writing Cyrillic now) is to physically write down phrases that I like on paper flash cards then review them. By writing them down your brain is going to be more engaged and retain the information better.
Duolingo is not intended to make you fluent in any language. If you use it and books and other tools of course you will be better. As I understand it, completing a language course there will make you a A1 Beginner.
I treat it more as a time waster than anything else. I tried memrise too but it was garbage. It had weird romanized spellings of Russian words, no Cyrillic at all, so it was deleted as quickly as I downloaded it.
Fluent ASAP when I used it, it had stuff like "Da" for yes and "Spasyba" for thanks, etc immediately turned me off, so I didn't investigate further and uninstalled it right away. I can't read Russian in Roman text, it just doesn't look right and I often won't even recognize the words that I would normally instantly know if it was in Cyrillic.
austininflorida I just installed it and used whatever the stock first course is, so I'm sure that was the manufactures direct lessons and yes it was subpar IMO for Russian anyway, I can't speak on the other languages, they very well may be great, I can only speak from my experience with the Russian course.
I would recommend trying the web app. It is much better than the mobile version, at least for the initial setup. Here is their recommended Russian course with the Cyrillic alphabet. www.memrise.com/course/1123052/russian-1/
unfortunately, the sentences are at the mercy of the contributors and they can put weird and nasty stuff if they want! like the tiger is eating my husband (that is one) or he has a big black sack(another one)!
Grammar is a huge part of a language. Without it you'll never be able to use it properly. If you don't want to learn grammar, then languages aren't for you...
+Elise Tanis I agree with you! But when you start off learning a New Language grammar is not important! When you are a child you learn language not by learning grammar. First it is not important at that stage. Same goes for an adult learning a new language. I am only interested in speaking a language grammar is in the beginning stages not important and to get punished for it is demotivating.
Sometimes I type wrong, because I type so fast I miss a space or just press a key wrong lmao. I don't mess up when I have it instilled in my head 40 times. Example of Correct Answer: Boy : Pojke Girl : Flicika Example of Slip-Up: Boy : Poje Girl : Flcka
+Austin Bossidy hehe, no way! As far as the NFL goes I've always only rooted for the Seahawks :) I promise - and I started about a decade before their first Super Bowl
Haha... No worries! :) Offline it's more common - I must say a lot of people in Vancouver became overnight Seahawks fans once they won the Super Bowl, so that's kind of funny. :) Now it's hilarious that I got a buddy of mine who's a bandwagoner Patriots fan (the guy is from Vancouver and never even set his foot in Boston) who has the audacity to call all local Seahawks fans bandwagoners.
Fluent ASAP lmao almost everyone outside Boston hates the Patriots. he's pretty much putting a Target on his head. Then again they're one of the only good teams in the AFC. also, do you know any good programs for Asian languages? specifically Japanese?
I know!! I've never been a big fan of the Patriots, although obviously one can't say they're a bad team. Getting 5 Super Bowls since 2001 in this competitive a league is surreal, to say the least. That being said, whenever someone here in Vancouver becomes a huge Patriots fan, it's like... "c'mon, man!" It depends on your level... If you're starting out with Japanese, I'd suggest you go with conversational programs before worrying about writing, so perhaps Pimsleur or Michel Thomas. I prefer Pimsleur over Michel Thomas although it's a bit more boring. I'm also a big fan of LingQ.com since they have a lot of audio with text, so you can do lots of listening and vocab building.
"The woman ate an apple" lol, yeah those sentences seem useless at first. I try to use them around the house in different ways so I can keep that vocabulary in my head, but that's a major reason why I didn't like Pimsleur and various books I bought, because they were targeted at business people that traveled and were looking to rent a room for the night, rent a car, find the nearest restaurant, etc. I want to be able to watch Spanish soap operas, watch Italian movies, read German articles, etc. lol. But I guess we all have to start somewhere - back to the woman eating apples for me :)
OMG!!! This is my exact issue!!! That's why I like duolingo. They focus on learning the language as opposed to learning a few phrases.
im about half way down and once you get passed numbers and verbs it becomes so much better im able to talk to my grandma who speaks fluent french. i am not fluent yet but im able to say sentences like where you going. can i go to. bring me some milk. what day is the party? it gets more advanced when i find myself taking longer to complete the lessons vs the first few lessons
Exactly!! It's nice that you get all aspects instead of only greetings and important sentences that wouldn't reallt make you fluent but might help you hold a basic conversation in that language. On the other hand, the fact that Duolingo throws you so much of the language (vocabulary, numbers, grammar/tenses, as well as common phrases) means that you should focus sometimes on the important/common stuff.
It's not saying you should only do that, but that should be one of your top priorities you know?
Idk I'm not really sure what I'm trying to get at here.
There are a few components to teaching yourself to speak Spanish quickly . One place I found that succeeds in merging these is the Fergs spanish blueprint (check it out on google) without a doubt the most useful treatment that I have ever seen. Look at all the interesting information .
La mujer come manzanas
Also, if you're a little more serious about using Duolingo for a while, use it on a computer.
I swear...
Just go check it out on computer!
FYI, since this video was posted, DuoLingo has added a few Asian languages. Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean are all currently available, and they are developing Indonesian and Hindi. I believe Tagalog may be in the planning stages.
The woman ate an apple. Aren't these like top one thousand frequency words. Woman, eat, apple??
+steven gao well, there's nothing wrong with learning that sentence... vocab and sentence structure are both useful but my general philosophy is to try to focus on learning vocab and sentences that are as interesting and useful to me as possible
Yo como manzanas
ni ni?
Yo como naranjas.
I eat apples
yo soy muerto por dentro :)
Jasonukai * yo estoy muerto por dentro (:
I've been learning Danish with Duolingo for some months now, and I think it has helped me a lot. I have a Danish friend, and I'm always trying to text her and send voicenotes and calls in Danish, and she always corrects me if I have something wrong. So far, I've been able to watch Danish TV shows, Disney movies and listen and understand music. Also, I've been trying to read short stories and books, with a dictionary whenever I find a new word, and looking up for grammar whenever I get stuck with conjugations or declensions xD
Karl A. Osorio You're doing it right. Keep going.
Henry now, we're having quite long conversations. She even gave her mom the phone so I could try to talk to her for a while 😂
Karl A. Osorio Do you have any recommendations for Danish TV shows that have good and exact subtitles in Danish?
I am also trying to learn and speak Danish and was looking for a good source for listening to native speakers.
Det lyder squ spændende, makker. Dansk er også et dejligt sprog :)
Duo-lingo is great for a free resource but I agree with your comments. I think Duo-lingo is a great extra tool when you have a little bit of spare time but it shouldn't be your main resource :)
It's good for beginners.
i am a english 17 year old and i am willing to learn italian out of interest also becuase of my family and friends. i have been learning it for a few weeks now and i can say a few sentences and i can understand lots of words. my struggle is fixing sentences together and the right grammar. i talk to friends in italian all the time but i want to learn it more ways without getting bored. do you have any recommendations that you could give me to learn this without paying. (tv,music,games, apps?
thanks brandon.
+brandon dring hey Brandon, congrats for your awesome level of interest in learning Italian! It's such a beautiful language, isn't it? First of all, I would say don't stress about the grammar, since it comes together with time. If you'd like, you can find exercises online for free that will help you with it along with sentence building. I would recommend memrise for vocabulary building as well as LingQ (you can use it for free up to a certain level)... most important of all, always look for content that interests you in Italian and stay motivated :) good luck!
I find that combining Duolingo and Pimsleur really helps. There is also a program on steam called influent that I also use for vocabulary. And I also realized that if I right down the vocabulary words and place them around the house with sticky notes It really cements them into my memory.
brandon dring I speak Spanish and English currently trying to learn Italian as well, knowing Spanish helps me out
I hope you stuck to this. You tube is the "kek" for finding all levels of conversation to try and pick apart.
you can listen to italian songs, that really helps to get use to how they speak and try to learn new words without getting bored. Also, you could download the lyrics, delete some random words without listening to the song first. And then, you can try to write down the words you understood they are singing.
Something that worked for me was finding the set of duolingo vocab on memrise and learning the vocab on memrise before doing the lesson on duolingo. I get the vocab down on memrise first and then not worry about vocab while learning grammar on duo.
they do have flash cards it is called tiny cards
Yes, and it connects with your Duolingo account tinycards.duolingo.com/
Hey thanks so much, never knew about this and it gives you duolingo xp points, nice!
It's a nice addictive little app but it needs something to takes you further. It needs something for reading and listening like lingq.
That's what real life, friends, and movies are for. ;) Welcome!
Is lingq free?
Can I translate your video to Portuguese and post it in my channel?
Make captions for this video or record yourself saying the translation if you haven’t got the go ahead
I like duolingo because it's free and It's very colourful, I am from the Netherlands so I can speak Dutch and English but after duolingo I can speak parts of different languages
There is no audio for Swedish, Irish and (I believe) German. It's a better app than it gets credit for, and I like how it keeps knowledge fresh.
Try the "Michel Thomas' and "Language Transfer" (free French, Italian, Swahili, Greek, Spanish, German) method. You'll be speaking immediately and you'll understand the target language grammar!!!!. These methods basically talk you through the language grammar and then ask you to say things and *surprise* you can!!!! Duo actually helped a lot for me to get to the talking you through method. With Duo, I could read and write but still unable to start a sentence. When I started using the language transfer and Michel Thomas method, all the Duo vocabulary made sense.
Definitely agree. Michel Thomas' method does not recommend memorizing.
Tomas Kuli I already speak Greek and German, i am not having any interest in the rest language that the site offers, i am interested in Russian and Swedish and unfortunately they do not have these languages there!
Maria Michel Thomas may have those languages. I get my tapes from the library. its the method of learning. Very easy. Check his website, maybe you'll find the languages you want. My comment stands for those interested in the languages that offered free on language transfer. I listen through sound cloud. Good luck.
Tomas Kuli Thank you! I'll check it out.
I'm doing just well with Duolingo for now, obviously, I'm not soul-y relying on it though. It's probably because we're all different in that big, but small brain of ours.
I'm using DuoLingo now to learn both Spanish and French. I plan on learning German and Italian on DuoLingo as well down the road just for fun. The two Romance languages of Spanish and French are the ones I want to become proficiently and professionally fluent in. The reality is that DuoLingo does not make anyone fluent in any particular language. It however provides a solid and basic foundation for developing the essential rudimentary skills for embarking on the pathway towards fluency in a certain foreign language.
I do not know how you learned other languages at school but we too, started with questions like 'The woman eats an apple" or "The man is rich" or "The man and the woman are sitting" so yeah, it is not that different for me. And also, it helps you get a hold of the language while using simple sentences, not complicated phrases. And it can sometimes be fun to have some crazy sentences :)
I use it for spanish and I love it. Like you said it cannot be your ONLY tool but one of the method for learning.
You're wearing a Seahawks hat! I'm from Washington so it's pretty cool!
it's not important whether you'll use a particular sentence in Duolingo or not. the main thing is it's coxing you to understand the language structure. Amharic would be an awesome course😎.
+توم ريتشاردز I partly agree. For sure it helps one better understand and internalize language structure, but I personally find that Duolingo doesn't have enough resources to let you actually internalize those structures. At least for me, I usually won't remember much after doing even a bunch of lessons. However, if I copy down important phrases and review them with different strategies then I can internalize them a lot better.
Is Amharic similar to Tigrinya? I dated a girl that was able to speak one or the other or both, I don't remember.
Fluent ASAP thats why you should go back to the previous ones. i believe in a 80-20 split. 80% review and 20% new
Mario Pellegrini Yes, they're closely related languages.
My brother do you know any language learning app for Arabic for an English speaker? Thank you
I recommend duolingo for building vocabulary, it teaches you a lot of words, used in many different situations, and already understanding most of the French grammar duolingo is really building a great vocabulary for me, I would recommend it to refine a language more than anything.
I use the Duolingo app as well. I' m brazilian and even though I'm fluent in english I study english everyday to improve more and more my learning skills because of my goals and because it became my passion!
See you!
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I far prefer memrise over Duolingo. Great video
+Rasta Mon thank you, sir! Memrise is indeed pretty good. I've used it a lot for Chinese characters and the memory associations really help... but I had been neglecting it since I was focusing on other languages. That being said I shall start using it again :)
Rasta Mon it doesn't really teach you grammar rules and stuff though
Rasta Mon duolingo is more for making sentances and learning how to do basoc structures while mesmerise is great for expandi g vocabulary. a lot do both. or do duo and then mesmerise
Gabzo Avro i found memorise really boring where as duolingo is addictive lol
memrise is shit
You are awesome! Liked the video:) I love Duolingo, it has really helped me build my skills on French and Spanish and I will be starting to learn German soon!
+Lisa thank you, Lisa! :) good luck with your language exploits
Fluent ASAP lovely to hear back! Definitely subscribed!😊
I became moderatly conversational in Esperanto just using Duolingo
if its not the best way to spend my time learning a language what in your opinion is the basset way to spend you time learning a language?
+Kevin Carter I think it's a matter of where you're at. At beginner levels I think Duolingo can be a good way to spend your time as you're learning a language. Also, I'm a firm believer in using multiple resources so you can learn the language by being exposed to it in different ways. So, in short, it's hard to determine the best way since it depends on your level and current goals.
In this video you said they do not have any aisian languages, but in the 2 years since this video has been posted they have a Mandarin Chinese course, a Japanese course, and a Korean course (I’m probably missing something).
As of now, Mandrin Chinese and Japanese are on DuoLingo. I had wanted to learn Arabic, but, it is not yet available.
I'm having fun with Esperanto, French, Spanish, Turkish and Chinese. I had started Russian as well, but the Alphabet is going to require very concentrated work, so I've postponed that for now.
I'm spending about an hour and a half a day broken up as I have time between the five I'm sticking to, though I don't beat myself up if I have to let life get in the way.
I would suggest anyone who wants to use it as a solid introduction only as a curiosity, to see if you're actually interested in putting the effort toward learning languages, start with Esperanto and give it an honest fifteen to twenty minutes a day for a week. Don't sweat that you're going to be "cheating" constantly at first, clicking on the words to piece together the meaning of the earliest sentences. That is not going to keep you from realizing around day three or four that you're beginning to think a little more in the language you're studying. It begins to come pli rapide. More quickly.
When you finish your week, go back and click open each earlier lesson in order and there is a section at the end of each lesson to review weaknesses. Going through those at the end of each week or at the end of each session will greatly strengthen what you've learned.
After your first week you'll know that you can do this and you'll know if you want to. At that point, I'd say it's time to add just one other language (if you have the time: you'll need an additional fifteen to twenty minutes for the new language.) Don't go crazy! One more is going to be enough for now or you'll likely have trouble separating one from the other and you'll hurt your progress in both.
I have found, since I'm doing five at once, that I have to give myself time in between my language sessions in order to not type "Jes," (yes in Esperanto,) instead of "Si," (Spanish,) and such.
I suggest Esperanto because I think if you're like me and don't remember a damn thing from High School French except that I hated the class and didn't get the girl I took it to impress, Esperanto has the very highest likelihood of giving you those early successes that will then give you the confidence to succeed in any other language you choose. DuoLingo is a start, and a good one, and maybe enough if you're just interested for self edification/education, but be prepared to find more formal and intensive tools/programs when you're done if you want to gain true fluency. DuoLingo ends you at a basic conversational level relatively quickly, but it is by no means comprehensive.
Last suggestion: keep a vocabulary notebook and write every new word at least at first. It's a lot like learning another language. You have to study and put in the effort.
That's my unsolicited two cents.
I like the tone of your voice! your accent is very good and clear 😁 , I'm using it for French, but I know that is not going to make me fluent... I've used for English in the beginning, but as you said, it's only a complement, not the main tool to learn any language!
As you stated, Duolingo is not the entire thing. But, for sure, a decent little complement. And let me update , recently , Japanese , Korean and Mandarin were added.
You Screen Shot. I take Notes. It had been my study habit to write out Notes with pen and paper, (I know cursive too!), when studying for my College Degree(early ’80’s). The act of Writing it Down is a powerful tool, for me, when it comes to memorizing things. Then I will review my notes afterwards. I especially like to note sentences that I want to have in my vocabulary like: “J’ai Dépression Clinique Majeure.” (just in case) Last time I lived there I believe my Hotel Owners thought I was on Drugs when in fact, to pull through a Depression, absolute rest is the cure. So, they were curious why I holed up in my room so long when in fact I was ill and used the tool that I knew worked best to recover!
It has helped a lot through studying english language but I have a feeling that if I just had used it alone it wouldn't have been able to teach everything I've got. You have to put on work what you learn watching movies, series, etc...
Great video! I use mainly memrise and duolingo, besides vocabulary lists and tv show, songs... but what's the free websites/apps that you recommend me to learn the languagues? The ones that you use and now that after using them all you are fluent in that language. Please, answer me!
+Chocklad have you checked out LingQ.com? Overall? It's my favourite resource since they have a big library of audio + text
I have it saved on my favorites, but I never remember to open it, I will try to use it more, thanks :D
What I do with duo lingo is only do one new lesson a day. Then I go back and revew one or two lessons that I completed already each day so that I can get the repatition. It helps me!
I write down the important words on every lesson. So I can remember them and don't have to repeat it everyday.
Time consuming, but if you want to learn a language do it right. That means don't rush, don't be lazy/practice everyday, and go as slow as you want while not rushing.
I have to set the default language to the one I'm learning and say I want to learn English for it to be any use, because it rarely ever asks you to translate into the language you're learning.
They're currently developing Indonesian, Korean, and Japanese. No Mandarin yet, though.
Elijah Rothstein Korean was added a few days ago.
I love Duolingo. I am learning Spanish, Italian, French and Norwegian. I am having trouble with French, so I will try memrise or gets some books.
i do all the steps in duolingo but when i fished,i dont feel that i have the level a1 in german.i learn now with memrise and is better than duolingo for me.now
+Alan Naranjo i fineshed when i play everyday
+Alan Naranjo i fineshed 4 months ago i think or more than it
try to use " schritte " a cource book with exercises at the end of it , its really amazing! it took me 2 and a half months but i have finished schritte A1 & got a really good mark , it comes with a cd too . now ill continue on schritte A2 besides duolingo app its good for revision ...also the linq website concidered to be a great tool . good luck !
+fatima zohra yeah i knowing this book .i will buy this book one day its 6books in total.for me menschen book is good cause they have cd and dvd room.thank you! in memrise i found this book there for study german and the book studio d too and all the book to schritte
Your preference.
I agree they definitely need to add more languages / make it more challenging for more fluent speakers. BUT - STILL LOVE Duolingo. Was so happy when it was released and god it has come so far! I just read an article on Upgraded Points this morning on the best language learning apps and I hadn't heard of any but Duolingo. It had a ton of other great options and I'd be curious to see how they compare / if anyone else has tried the others! Check out the post on Upgraded Points' website and lmk!
I agree that it is fun. I am studying French. I learned some via immersion only when I lived there and picked it up via necessity. Duolingo I also find a bit addicting.. but am worried about my aptitude when it comes to Conversing with anyone.
Boa noite.
Tenho uma dúvida. Não sei nada mas nada mesmo inglês. Com seu curso consigo fazer as aulas do zero? Porque para mim é um investimento que não posso perder. Vou abrir mão de algumas coisas para fazer o curso. Obrigado
So if i completed duolingo and i went to germany right after. Would i be able to find my way around and kind of understand people?
That's hard to say... Understanding in my opinion really comes from doing a decent amount of listening along with reading, ideally. I'd say it would be good to complement Duolingo with listening + reading to develop good enough understanding.
I think you'll be able to read signs, menus and information stuff, pretty well.
I'm learning Welsh in a class but wanted an app to revise during the week. I've found its helped my ability to read and understand the language rather than speak the language.
The woman eats an apple is not an effective sentence that you will be using but what it does is teach you the words, so let me explain, "the woman eats an apple" you will read that and pick up certain words like "the" you can use that in other sentences
Well, the English-from-German course is... At least a course, and there are many worse resources. But I think for complete beginners the difficulty would progress too fast, and for advanced learners the vocabulary is too small. And there are problems with the translation of English time tenses. For example, we have a time tense in German that looks exactly like the English past with 'to have'. It's builded in the same way, and the German 'haben' is used for it and also means 'to have'. But there *is* a difference! That is: There is no difference between this tense and the 'normal' past tense in German relating the 'event horizon' and time. We just use the 'haben'-past in spoken German and the other one only in written German. (Can't understand why everyone says German has a difficult Grammar 🤔)
So, Duolingo isn't to blame for that, but it shows the limits of the method, which, in my opinion, is very good all in all. In the chapters about the English time tenses the useful stuff relating to that issue is hidden in the user comments! And there are not only other users, but also mods helping with explanations and links to other sources.
The Spanish-from-English course is... incredible! 😍
Big stories section, and as far as I know these are the only "graded readers" for A(0). They are also really fun, and you can click on an expression and get the translation for it. And introductions in new language structures in easy language, without any grammar terms! I'm in heaven! And I'm already through with all the stuff from the A1 level and even more and there's still endless tons of chapters. So I think the Spanish course would lead the learner to a decent level.
I love learning Italian on Duolingo! :)
I wish duolingo had Latin. I'm currently a Latin 3 student, and after each summer it gets harder and harder to remember everything we learned the year before. Duolingo would make it easy for me to keep up on my Latin each year, even though it's not a spoken language, and not required for my life at all. I really enjoy the language, and wish it was recognized a bit more.
Dixie Stinson YES! When my friend first told me about it I was hoping they had Latin, but then I found out they didn't...
Je suis en cours de français ce semestre.
We use Horizons edition 3 as our text book and I've found that Duolingo has been a great companion with the text book. In some cases it has helped me get ahead and prepare for the future.
+Star's Adventures duolingo is fun. Have you tried any of my suggestions from the video? :)
There are sirens in the background at the beginning of the video at the start.
Duolingo taught me how to ask someone for a lighter before teaching me how to say Mom and Dad....good starting place perhaps, especially for spelling/writing and reading but I think I learned more about speaking and listening through Pimsleur. I haven’t tried many others though besides those two!
I use it for english every day
how do you check how fluent you are ,I'm learning German and it dosnt show were to check
I screenshoot Duolingo lessons only to never go back to review them. I think simple sentences are more important in more agglutinating languages like German; we are able to see the grammar and how it works through them.
For people complaining about duolingo, if you are interested in learning the language, any method can help you get there, its about how much effort you put in. Plus for the price, how can you complain. Geesh go get a tutor then.
I see duolingo as a tool to learn really basic levels of a language but if you want to go further you will need to get some other sources such as a goos dictionary on your smartphone, a comunity where you can exchange knowledge with other learners and native speakers who can clarify your doubts and some research at google😅 it takes time but it is worthy😊
Thanks for the video. I think is a good tool to understand and have a good vocab in the language. Also I think that the strange phrases are putting there to take your attention 🤔 😄. What I like about duolingo is I can have all my interesting languages all in the same place and I can see my progress and I can training what I learned. But what I didn't like that I am interested with the basic conversations in the first time but you have to wait for and I would like to learn by dialogue after each circle (we finish it) because we need to talk more than read. Also I made a huge progress with watching series and using duolingo that make the coming lessons more easy 💕💕💕
It's kinda good if you combine it with youtube videos (nowadays they're a lot of classes on youtube to learn the laguage you want) at least it will save you some money if you currently don't have any to pay a language course, which can be expensive. Also, you would not have to pay a level A1 in an institute, which is stupid.
I am a fan of surrealism... therefore I love Duolingo.
Hahah excellent
In my high school we do Spanish lessons and I use duolingo as well
Can you make an updated review?
I think I will soon :)
great vedio thanks ! plz i need an advice on learning hebrew , I've stoped for i cant read any thing without the Niqud ! all books , articles and everything is without Niqud , and i can't read only Torah ! how did you learned it , im amazed !
+fatima zohra hello Fatima! I would be happy to help but my Hebrew is at a basic level (and it keeps getting worse since I don't get to practice it often). My focus was exclusively on conversational and while I intend on learning it to speak fluently one day, I still have long ways to go. :)
+Fluent ASAP Thank you so much & i wish you the best of luck !
what about japanese & korean ? can you advice on how to learn kanji & Hungle for they are so confusing !?
good news is they now have alot more languages
How good can I get in Spanish using Duolingo??
They've had Turkish, an Asian language, for at least a couple years. Unless by Asian, you mean Chinese or Japanese.
They have Chinese,Japanese,Korean and Vietnamese
Yes. Back when I made this video they didn’t though
Seahawks hat? Have my like.
+Noah Bomar hahaha, right on!
Nice, Washington!!!
how can we learn all of this languages without going to classes
Firdausi Kirazi try Duolingo.
That screen-shotting is a good idea. Takk
+Joel S thank you :)
Where langages do you know?
I've been using duolingo recently but I've not been finding it so useful for Russian as even after many reviews of the chapters the spellings simply don't stick with me despite me understanding and being able to use the words in conversation...
+Dan Simons Yeah, I feel the same way unless I somehow use what was learned in another "system". One thing that I find helpful especially with Russian (since I'm only really getting comfortable with writing Cyrillic now) is to physically write down phrases that I like on paper flash cards then review them. By writing them down your brain is going to be more engaged and retain the information better.
+Fluent ASAP sounds like a good idea! I'll try that method thanks!
Dan Simons I speak Russian but I need to improve English? Что скажите по этому поводу?
I have the same picture in my room right next to me lol
Стивен Флак I’m learning Russian and I can see your name is Steven :D
Could you review memrise?
Duolingo is great and made me fluent in French at the age of 11 but the sentences can be somewhat useless in real life situations xo
I'm learning Japanese with this app.
Duolingo is not intended to make you fluent in any language. If you use it and books and other tools of course you will be better. As I understand it, completing a language course there will make you a A1 Beginner.
Sabia que era brasileiro! Kkk o sotaque não engana
I treat it more as a time waster than anything else. I tried memrise too but it was garbage. It had weird romanized spellings of Russian words, no Cyrillic at all, so it was deleted as quickly as I downloaded it.
+Майкл when I used it for Russian it did have Cyrillic on the app...
Fluent ASAP when I used it, it had stuff like "Da" for yes and "Spasyba" for thanks, etc immediately turned me off, so I didn't investigate further and uninstalled it right away. I can't read Russian in Roman text, it just doesn't look right and I often won't even recognize the words that I would normally instantly know if it was in Cyrillic.
In Memrise, anyone can make a course. It is possible, you just used a sub-par course.
austininflorida I just installed it and used whatever the stock first course is, so I'm sure that was the manufactures direct lessons and yes it was subpar IMO for Russian anyway, I can't speak on the other languages, they very well may be great, I can only speak from my experience with the Russian course.
I would recommend trying the web app. It is much better than the mobile version, at least for the initial setup. Here is their recommended Russian course with the Cyrillic alphabet.
www.memrise.com/course/1123052/russian-1/
Now there are some Asian languages. Japanese, Korean, & Chinese for example.
Where are you from?
+Justin Doutre Brazil (originally) and Canada (I've been living here for a while)
Qual seu usuário lá? queria te add mano. haha
Beleza! e Gabriel887153 - mas faz ja um tempinho que eu nao uso porque eu venho me concentrando em chines, hehe... :D
+Fluent ASAP no worries mestre!! só pra seguir mesmo!!
They now have Swahili.
unfortunately, the sentences are at the mercy of the contributors and they can put weird and nasty stuff if they want!
like the tiger is eating my husband (that is one) or he has a big black sack(another one)!
+johny five lol, "the tiger is eating my husband"
those are funny tho.
They're not bad, in my opinion. It helps because I make stories up for how that stupid shit happened.
Tous les deux Duolingo y Babbel eres muy bueno apps! Tu Instagram enlazar roto. Muy bien - Merci beaucoup!
I am from Brazil/MG
Uai
I don't get out brains...
but it test your fluentcey
Eu como maçã
what do not like about duolingo is that it punishes you if you make a gramatical error i do not want to know grammatics but just the langauge!!
Grammar is a huge part of a language. Without it you'll never be able to use it properly. If you don't want to learn grammar, then languages aren't for you...
+Elise Tanis I agree with you! But when you start off learning a New Language grammar is not important! When you are a child you learn language not by learning grammar. First it is not important at that stage. Same goes for an adult learning a new language. I am only interested in speaking a language grammar is in the beginning stages not important and to get punished for it is demotivating.
Luka K it's better to learn grammar, because you don't want to form bad habits that you have to fix later on
Sometimes I type wrong, because I type so fast I miss a space or just press a key wrong lmao. I don't mess up when I have it instilled in my head 40 times.
Example of Correct Answer:
Boy : Pojke
Girl : Flicika
Example of Slip-Up:
Boy : Poje
Girl : Flcka
Grammar is necessary for language
Katten äter fågeln. Hunden äter katten.... Hennes namn var Milky...
;(
Hon tycker om mjölk...
Such a sad story about Milky, right?
Lmao
No offense.
EU COME UMA MASA
Falcons are better lel
another Seahawks bandwagoner :P
+Austin Bossidy hehe, no way! As far as the NFL goes I've always only rooted for the Seahawks :) I promise - and I started about a decade before their first Super Bowl
haha I was just playing. but that's awesome. You probably get called a bandwagoner by people on the internet though
Haha... No worries! :) Offline it's more common - I must say a lot of people in Vancouver became overnight Seahawks fans once they won the Super Bowl, so that's kind of funny. :) Now it's hilarious that I got a buddy of mine who's a bandwagoner Patriots fan (the guy is from Vancouver and never even set his foot in Boston) who has the audacity to call all local Seahawks fans bandwagoners.
Fluent ASAP lmao almost everyone outside Boston hates the Patriots. he's pretty much putting a Target on his head. Then again they're one of the only good teams in the AFC.
also, do you know any good programs for Asian languages? specifically Japanese?
I know!! I've never been a big fan of the Patriots, although obviously one can't say they're a bad team. Getting 5 Super Bowls since 2001 in this competitive a league is surreal, to say the least. That being said, whenever someone here in Vancouver becomes a huge Patriots fan, it's like... "c'mon, man!"
It depends on your level... If you're starting out with Japanese, I'd suggest you go with conversational programs before worrying about writing, so perhaps Pimsleur or Michel Thomas. I prefer Pimsleur over Michel Thomas although it's a bit more boring. I'm also a big fan of LingQ.com since they have a lot of audio with text, so you can do lots of listening and vocab building.
But this guy can't actually speak English.
+Randolph Mckay lol
Randolph Mckay he can't? weird. I am an English speaking Canadian and I understand him 100% and barely even hear an accent. People are so rude.
u wot?
Where are you from?
+Francesco Bellati originally, Brazil :)
+Francesco Bellati Brazil/Canada
Me too! I was born in Brazil and now live in Canada