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@@Colin-Fenix I think they do that to ensure your attention. It makes more sense though, if the language is in an other alphabet. It's like "this word makes no sense at all, but according to grammatical rules, it has to be at that place".
fr its actually fun compared to reading through a textbook, thats what makes it good for so many people who lack discipline. and if your enjoying learning it will stick in your head 10x easier
@@MaoDev hum, I think if you turn on the subtitles in Japanese it would be even more effective, you know, it enables us to realise certain subtle things in language. This video here shows some interesting stuffs about that, though is focusing in English: ruclips.net/video/zVRvGcNJcEk/видео.html
@@MeAndTeng0 haha it's even become a meme in the learners, the level has the discussion filled with people talking about the Duo bird smoking pot and being stoned lmao
I appreciate this video. I’m 3 minutes in so far, and what I hear you saying is that DuoLingo is just one of many effective tools one will need to acquire a new language. DuoLingo is useful and helpful, but should not be expected to be “all you need” to learn a new language. Personally, I’m using DuoLingo, Tandem, HelloTalk, RUclips tutorials, Google Articles, Google searches, Google Translate, etc. Some people enjoy complaining. Thanks for the video!
3 years ago I started learing Spanish using Duolingo, it was pretty funny and helpful app, after that I jumped to different methods, such as traveling to a countries that speak Spanish, waching RUclips, Spanish movies, and reading books, I consider duolingo as an important starting point.
Thank you! I started to learn Swedish 2 weeks ago and was a little bit concerned that it might not be enough to be fluent. Thanks to you I do now understand the ulterior motive of the developers. This video really motivated me to do even more. Keep up the good work. Love from Austria :)
as a norwegian your swedish is flawless, incredible pronounciation, if that was the first thing i heard when clicking on the video i would have thought you were swedish!
Oh sorry, you'd already watched the video that I just linked to in my other reply haha. Yeah, that's the thing: People think that the program is there to teach you everything you'd ever want to say. It's not. It's their to teach how would say anything that you might want to say.
I have seen even more odd English recommended answers then start to wonder whether I am learning a foreign language or arguing about the grammar of my own language.
It all so helps keeping you engaged Instead of constant boring sentences. You learned to say dog awhile back. So why not something more off the wall like elephant.
Summary: - Doulingo is not enough for learning a language. Nevertheless, it is a very helpful way to build the habit of your target language. - Do not quit Doulingo even if you find yourself able to speak that language. Since, it will open your eyes to some complex structures sentences never will come to your mind simply. - Do not focus on the meaning of the sentence if it was strange sometimes. Furthermore, try to change it to be close to the situation you need, and even better try to imagine what is happening? Because this will stick the meaning deeply in your brain. - Encourage others to think of you as an expert of that language so that will create a positive image of you which in turn will lead to motivate you when things go wrong.
18 is great! What language are you learning? Honestly, it's not really about 18 days versus 800 days... if you've made your language learning part of your daily habit, then you're doing well. Before I started my 800 day streak, I actually lost a streak of 72 days in Spanish... today, I do not speak Spanish at all, because I was never really properly into it, I just had the streak (meaning that when I lost the streak, I gave up). Anyway, thanks for your comment. I want to do more language learning videos but they don't generate as much interest as the reviews, so thank you for showing your interest!
@@daysandwords Really! Well, I'm learning Spanish! I love the language and I'm getting help from a Spanish/English/Romanian friend. Three languages, ik very good! But I'm getting better!
@@pyroaa464 - OK, keep it up! I'd love to learn Spanish again now that I have some South American friends, but at the moment I need to focus on my Swedish and French. Thanks again for your comments.
@@goldendovah7613 Yes but in a different way. Studying feels like a chore because you have to focus... It's not a case of not having motivation to study, because the motive is there, to learn to speak the language. Duolingo on the other feels like a chore because it feels like a grind, a constant and repetitive never-ending grind. Congratulations if duolingo helps u, but honestly I have tried it and didn't like it at all.
@@Archaon97 Yeah, I'd say it's worth a try, but if it doesn't motivate you at all try something else. For me every single different method of learning languages feels like a chore, Duo was just the only one I could maintain for more than a couple of months straight. I think in the end it was the simplicity of the structure and feeling like I'm moving forward, even if that's kind of artificial. Doing something like FSI, Assimil, Babbel, Mango, Lingvist, text books, etc, I always just felt like I was bashing into a wall forever. Duo felt like I was very slowly climbing it (and I am moderatly slow - about halfway through a gold Spanish in a year). Even Duo I get tired of, and dropped down to lower daily usage at times (50 xp minimum though), but I never stopped entirely, unlike every other method I've tried.
@@charlotte-4190 The "alphabet" part literally let me into fury. How hard is it to accept that I will not learn Hangul better from arbitrarily transcribing it in Latin. Worse yet Duolingo pronounces some of them literally the same and then I shall decide which of the two are transcribed as given. WTF!? Nah, fam.
I just burst out laughing when he quoted “you have a nice duck”, and then I didn’t have time to catch my breath before he double whammied us with “you have a nice elephant”.
This gave me a lot of confidence, because this is my third time attempting Japanese, but the first time I’ve actually gone and immersed myself in the language, and I’ve been doing my Duolingo every day as well. I’m eager and excited about learning and still looking for new strategies. Don’t know how long this will last but it feels great!
So glad I found your video. I am learning Welsh on Duolingo and recently started to incorporate things like learning children's songs in Welsh that I found on the web. Also, regarding weird sentences- a few I've encountered are, "Owen likes to eat parsnips in Antarctica," (but he seems to buy them in Ireland), "You did not get a present yesterday; you got nothing." and " Megan has a terrible car and terrible clothes." I find Duolingo fun (161-day streak!) but I can see the need for additional learning opportunities.
Me (from Sweden) and my friend (from Germany) are learning each other's languages via Duolingo and it's super fun. He get sentences like: "Kill him! Otherwise I'll do it!" While I get sentences like: "The vegetables does not like vegetarians" Duo is weird man..
I am almost a year into learning Spanish, with duolingo as one of many tools, I must say this guy is spot on. The points on image, and your attitude toward being a speaker is spot on! Must do the ground work.
In Russian they have "this is not a forest this is a salad" "who do you believe me or the cat" "strange people go to this shop" " she has a worse breakfast then you" "the soul is an important thing but now I have a headache"
I’m learning Latin and it’s hilarious literally every other sentence is an innuendo it’s all like: My sister sleeps in the city. Do you want to sleep in the city??
I wasn't super confident about that when I said it, but 20 months later and I'm a LOT more fluent in Swedish than I was when I made this video... so I agree with my past self 100%.
Good job m8. Been learning Spanish 2 months shy of a year- very good time to visit South America and practice! I’ve been in Colombia and Peru for 2 weeks now for work. ¡Cristo vive!
I agree on stupid sentences. Like "mina föraldrar är fula" "my parents are ugly" i can never forget that sentence because it made me laugh and question wth?? Obv Duolingo actually succeeded on that. That's enough of a success from a free app imo.
Thanks for your comment. That sentence would actually be "MinA föräldrar är fulA." because possessive pronouns and adjectives will match the plural. Unfortunately, since I made this video, Duo has been downgraded more than once and I have a video coming soon on why it's basically just a toy now. Although the weird sentences are still good.
I am swedish and for me, this sounds more like "my parents are" either bad-behaved, annoying or evil. Although that depends on the context obviously 😂😂
@@screwtapee Jag tror chanserna för att hitta norska arkitekter i sängen är betydligt större i Norge än i Sverige, vilket nog bara skulle förvärra saker och ting för Tora i det här fallet.
@@aaaaaaaaeaaaae "I think the chances of finding a Norwegian architect in bed are significantly greater in Norway than in Sweden, which would probably only make things worse for Tora in this case."
I just started Duolingo in Chinese since in my school I have a Chinese class mandatory. So I wanted to learn more, Duolingo helped me a bit on remembering the things I forgot on my chinese class.
My favorite Duolingo sentence from the french course is “the bride can’t undress by herself.” 😂 PS: turn up your audio. Had to turn up the volume to hear you then the ad after the video was super loud. 👍🏻
I loved your analogy to mathematics. It made perfect sense! You compared the app to becoming astute with the fundamentals of arithmetic as a means of stepping to more complex structures and it hit me right in the feels. 🙂
Well said! I have already started watching TV shows in Spanish and listening to Spanish music and I am only 39 days in but Duolingo is helping me do this. It is a fantastic learning tool but should be used with other learning tools too.
Thanks for your comment! Can you try a month of replacing your Duolingo with something else (e.g. watching 'Easy Spanish' on RUclips) and see how that works out for you? I wouldn't be surprised if your learning increases by at least 20%.
Days of French 'n' Swedish ha ha Already have, Easy Spanish, Extra, Bueno Gente and listening to Spanish music I like the song Core by Jesse y Joy and when I can pronounce more of the lyrics I will work out the chords and try to sing it 😊
I really wish more people would just start a video answering their question / title. It makes RUclips so much better. Watched the whole video just because of that. Thank you.
Fair enough. For Spanish I would recommend Rocket Spanish, and the dialogue tracks from SpanishPod101... honestly with a language as commonly taught as Spanish, I wouldn't bother with Duo, but that's just me.
One of the most honest reviews I’ve seen. I’ve been using Duolingo for the past several months and I’ve learned a lot in terms of vocabulary, grammar and and basic sentence construction. I’ve augmented with as he described with podcasts, music, and short stories. The route to becoming proficient isn’t singular. Great review!
wait people think the weird sentences are useless? I have always liked Dulingo for having sentences like that and found them more helpful than "sensible" ones on other apps/sites, like yeah it doesn't just give you a phrase you can use as soon as you read it but (at least to me) it makes actually understanding how the language works way easier. I honestly thought everybody felt that way and that was the reason they're like that in the first place. I'm not even sure why learning a language in a useless way would make me feel like I understand it more, maybe just it being abstract...? idk, did anybody else find them helpful and know how to explain it lol
I thought Duolingo sentences were weird exactly because of that. The thing is, you can easily find "normal", "useful" content when learning a language. Stuff like "a ticket, please", "where is the restroom?", but sometimes you memorize those phrases as an absolute, rather than as the many distinct parts (nouns, verbs, subjects, adjectives). Duolingo's system of weird sentences helps you learn them both as isolated parts of a sentences, and as absolute. It also is easier to memorize what is what because of how bizarre the situations depicted seem. Of course, if you want to advance in a language, Duolingo should only be a part of your methodology when it comes to learning and studying. Most languages can't be mastered unless you submerge yourself into it by consuming various forms of content, if not downright going somewhere in which you need it to communicate.
So from what I’m getting: Duolingo gives you the tools, and you have to put yourself into other advance courses / speak the language to use said tools.
Hi - kinda, but this is a very old video now, there is a much newer and better one with 12 free language learning tools: ruclips.net/video/EKWXOtWfbUE/видео.html&t=1s Thanks!
Wunderbar. I just started using Duolingo to learn French. I agree 100% with you about the necessity of combining Duolingo with other things like podcasts and movies and RUclips videos.
exactly, it depends on yourself. you go can to the same gym where Connor McGregor goes everyday and train there, but if you dont train seriously and you are lazy you will never achieve what McGregor did even at the very basic levels
i m using duolingo for french i m getting good at writing and reading and listening , today it finally clicked that i can think in french , its a big thing for me it made me smile and i thought biy i can learn it even faster , i m at just 1st level greeting and basics my vocabulary is very limited by the way
I'm learning arabic and there are APPARENTLY stupid ones like "The door is a door" BUT... Those are quite useful for understanding the differences between "The" and "a" in arabic. They will keep appearing until you demonstrate that you dominate the use of that.
@@jestes7 "this is quite an old video and after I shot it, I found out the camera's sound is broken haha." Well actually no, that wouldn't fix it, because like I said, the camera's audio was broken, which meant that it was CRAZY noisy. So this volume that you hear was already pumped up about 10dB and then de-noised as much as physically possible without getting that horrible underwater effect. What's more, using Audacity to sort out problems like this (which no longer exist anyway, have you watched any of my videos made since April?) adds about an hour to the whole process, which results in hours I don't have. What annoys me about this video is that it's my 2nd most viewed, and no one seems to take into account the fact that about 40 of my 50 videos about language learning have almost perfect audio... people choose this one from February to tell me how I should do my audio... ⛔
@@daysandwords Gotcha. You do you man. I'm just a perfectionist and I wouldn't have released a video that didn't meet my own personal standards and would have fixed any issues especially audio regardless of time and a lot of times people here on RUclips have no idea about audio editing lol. But yeah sometimes I spend way too much on trivial things.
italian duo: “where is the knife?” “i ate the bean” “the knife is in the boot” “the man is with the fish” “the bee is hidden in the sugar” “are you a horse?” “that tiger is mine, not yours”
Dov'è il coltello? Ho mangiato il fagiolo. Il coltello è nello stivale L'uomo è con il pesce L'ape è nascosta nello zucchero Sei un cavallo? Quella tigre è mia, non tua
I typically repeat everything on Duolingo out loud, and use voice to text to practice speaking. Sometimes with weird words, I'll do a motion that helps me remember
Keep going on your Swedish! It’s really good to learn more and more languages over the years. I am currently trying to learn Spanish on Duolingo, and it’s really working out. Keep going!
I was biased at the begining about the quality of the video because of audio, but actually it was filled with so much wisdom and to-the-point content that I can conclude it was totally worth it
I just past 300 days of Russian with Duolingo. I pick up words in Russian Laguange Movies and TV I watch one just about every day. I am really enjoying it. Oh and I flunked Spanish in High School twice. The Spanish Teacher lied to me and being the sort that I am, you get to do that once, and I just would not show up for the class, school never said a word either about it to me. Private High School and my name were on the checks for the tuition. I still have the account, I am past 65 now. Duolingo or any other study course is going to be as good as the effort you put into it. I would love to spend two to four years in St. Peterburg, Russia, and take Russian Language Classes as a full-time student. The Wuhan/CCP virus put the breaks on that notion.
I took french 1 and 2 in middle school. I was only taking it because I knew in high school, i could finally take a japanese class (i went to a huge high school that offered Japanese, and i had been teaching myself Japanese for 3 years by then, and was excited to take a real class and was fully prepared to leave French) so i ditched it the second I went into high school. Freshman year, I did just that. I went into japanese instead. My family ended up moving across the country my sophomore year and I couldn’t take a japanese class anymore, so i switched into my new high school’s mandarin program, and I really hate it. I’ve spent two years in Mandarin at this new school and I really don’t like it, and I heard the French program was good. In an effort to not have to retake French 1 and 2 in senior year of highschool, i’m teaching myself French this summer. Wish me luck...
I'm a native french speaker, I learned English randomly on the internet and am now fluent after 2-3 years. I started spanish on duo 2 weeks ago and it seems quite legit, I really feel like I'm learning things 👍
It can actually be helpful but being obligated to sign in everyday to keep your streak in those repetitive lessons is tiring. I’m learning French, did it for 100 days (A2) and stopped it because I couldn’t go any further. Now I’m looking for alternatives to continue. Oui, j'ai beaucoup appris.
I have been using Duolingo for a few years now and would say I'm between level B1 and B2 in Spanish. I do appreciate that I seriously need other methods as I cannot learn proper grammar. I watch Spanish language programmes, listen to Spanish bands etc just to hear the sound of the vocabulary, but I wouldn't have any idea at all if it wasn't for initially using the app. Yes, it's very frustrating, especially when they 'change for the better', removing everything that you loved about it, but it's a free way to learn and can be fun!
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Jag är osten
Jag kann säga mycket mer än att jag är en ost. Tack, uggla.
My favorite one was: "Women are people too"
feminism 100
i am touched, duolingo got its feminism game up these days 🥺🥺👉👈
I instead got the opposite: "Men are people too" 😂
Spitting facts
@@auroramacula And yet, the French course still forces you to assume the gender of people based on their name.
*sigh*
Dulingo be like : "My sister is a girl"
Fr 😂😂😂
Biggest plot twist ever
Mi hermana es una niña lol
literally 🙄🙄🙄
Once Duolingo shows me the phrase "She's not a girl" wtf.
In Norwegian they give you “I am eating bread and crying on the floor.”
I feel like I might actually use that one
😂😂😂😂
Finnish Duolingo: “You are crying and the onion is laughing”. Seriously!
@@Colin-Fenix I think they do that to ensure your attention. It makes more sense though, if the language is in an other alphabet. It's like "this word makes no sense at all, but according to grammatical rules, it has to be at that place".
jeg spiser brød og gråter på gulvet 😩
I got that sentence for the first time yesterday and was like wait, is that right? 🤔😂
"I used duolingo for 800 days. Can I speak swedish now? Yes"
Me: ...ight that's all I wanted to hear
Hahaha.
@@daysandwords oh my gosh. 69 the sacred number.
@@CrazyAsianDude destroyed
A1/A2 level
Łukasz W Can you explain the level thing please?
Short answer: Yes'nt
Haha sort of.
Lmao
Ja och nej
lol 😂
Rofl
What makes Duolingo great is it is fun and motivates you to keep trying.
fr its actually fun compared to reading through a textbook, thats what makes it good for so many people who lack discipline. and if your enjoying learning it will stick in your head 10x easier
Duolingo tried to brainwash me with the sentence: “I love Duolingo”
InfinityKitty how?
A Harry Potter Fan that’s a joke 🤪
Encountered that at Korean, after my 31 days streak I uninstalled it 😌
Cute parrot!!
Ino やま中R소원love소녀시대 but did you learn Korean
after 1500 hours of watching anime I can confidently say that I can't speak japanese
You had us on the first half not gonna lie
Hahahaha same lol
If you did this completely in japanese I dare say your results would be different
@@MaoDev hum, I think if you turn on the subtitles in Japanese it would be even more effective, you know, it enables us to realise certain subtle things in language.
This video here shows some interesting stuffs about that, though is focusing in English: ruclips.net/video/zVRvGcNJcEk/видео.html
@@MaoDev nice, farewell
"That cat knows."
"I ate my hate."
"That banana sleeps." -- Indonesian Duolingo
"Aku tidak menyentuh pisangku"
_The cat knows_
They should do a "the only good cop is a sleeping cop"
I ate my hate is pretty metal
That sounds like an improvement, as opposed to this ruclips.net/video/Osclh0OCwUA/видео.html
This guys speaks like he’s in an argument constantly lol good video
Haha, thanks for the comment. Yeah I do tend to be a bit "berating" in my voice, dunno if it's a good thing for videos or not.
Though I like this style
And looks at people like that too
@@emorybarrett6702 Do we know each other?
Days of French 'n' Swedish do we?
“I am an apple.” -Japanese Duolingo
Surely it should be 'Please excuse me, I am a poor substitute for an apple and have made a nuisance of myself.'
"I am going to party for 24 hours" -also Japanese Duolingo
私はりんごです
I encountered that in Dutch as well. Ik ben en appel
Anti doctor fruit
Duolingo is like a starting point for me. It helps with the basics.
In Dutch I got the sentence ‘In reality, I am a turtle’… same tbh
Wtf polnareff
Adiraj Singh 😂
Tower of god shit
I got 'why are the children bleeding' once o.o'
@@Octoboobs Followed up by "They wouldn't be bleeding if you stayed on your streak!" LOL
In Japanese I got "Excuse me I am cheese" lmfao
Lmao I'm dying
@@MeAndTeng0 haha it's even become a meme in the learners, the level has the discussion filled with people talking about the Duo bird smoking pot and being stoned lmao
しいろ
Sumimasen, watashi wa chizu ✨
@@lily9413 just to kindly correct you, chizu mean map in japanese Edit: Nvm im a dumbass
I appreciate this video.
I’m 3 minutes in so far, and what I hear you saying is that DuoLingo is just one of many effective tools one will need to acquire a new language.
DuoLingo is useful and helpful, but should not be expected to be “all you need” to learn a new language.
Personally, I’m using DuoLingo, Tandem, HelloTalk, RUclips tutorials, Google Articles, Google searches, Google Translate, etc.
Some people enjoy complaining.
Thanks for the video!
“I sometimes drink alone”
-Japanese Duolingo
"That banana sleeps"
- Indonesian duolingo
pain.💔
"Excuse me, I am an apple"
" The woman has a fork" ( Italian duolingo)
Oh yeah i had this one
3 years ago I started learing Spanish using Duolingo, it was pretty funny and helpful app, after that I jumped to different methods, such as traveling to a countries that speak Spanish, waching RUclips, Spanish movies, and reading books, I consider duolingo as an important starting point.
How are you now???
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Do u suggest me to do those things after i finished the spanish course on Duolingo?
@Juan Andres Vasquez Zapata And what? Now are you able to speak perfect spanish?
Duolingo helped me in school spanish is not a native language for me. Glad I could translate
I am exactly doing that now 55 day real streak. I have got some serious spanish movies and will get movies too
Thank you! I started to learn Swedish 2 weeks ago and was a little bit concerned that it might not be enough to be fluent. Thanks to you I do now understand the ulterior motive of the developers. This video really motivated me to do even more. Keep up the good work. Love from Austria :)
Got really spoked one late night at 2am doing Chinese and I got the ominous sentence "He is behind you"
O.o
Oh gosh
他/它在您/你的後面。
oh god
Yeah you shouldn’t stop using duo lingo after that
"I used to feed my dog" -spanish duolingo
"That banana sleeps"
-Indonesian duolingo
RIP Dog
@minecraft sucks lmao, problamente, ó la persona fue como "yo no voy a alimentar mi perro más"
me lo siento por el perro
That's so sad
"Io sono una tartaruga"
*I am a turtle*
-Italian Duolingo 2020
as a norwegian your swedish is flawless, incredible pronounciation, if that was the first thing i heard when clicking on the video i would have thought you were swedish!
Haha in THIS video? Surely you're joking...
My Swedish is literally 4 or 5 times as good now (pronunciation is also much better).
The weirdest sentence i got in Duolingo was “The men fall down together at the library.”
yea i got the same sentence from korean lesson lol
yeaah from korean
I got one in German that was like 'she wears clothes' or something
In German it said "A bear drinks a beer."
That's the most russian thing I've ever seen.
LMAO
I've seen some odd questions in duolingo and they've actually made me think harder about how to structure sentences.
Oh sorry, you'd already watched the video that I just linked to in my other reply haha.
Yeah, that's the thing: People think that the program is there to teach you everything you'd ever want to say. It's not. It's their to teach how would say anything that you might want to say.
I have seen even more odd English recommended answers then start to wonder whether I am learning a foreign language or arguing about the grammar of my own language.
It all so helps keeping you engaged Instead of constant boring sentences. You learned to say dog awhile back. So why not something more off the wall like elephant.
Summary:
- Doulingo is not enough for learning a language. Nevertheless, it is a very helpful way to build the habit of your target language.
- Do not quit Doulingo even if you find yourself able to speak that language. Since, it will open your eyes to some complex structures sentences never will come to your mind simply.
- Do not focus on the meaning of the sentence if it was strange sometimes. Furthermore, try to change it to be close to the situation you need, and even better try to imagine what is happening? Because this will stick the meaning deeply in your brain.
- Encourage others to think of you as an expert of that language so that will create a positive image of you which in turn will lead to motivate you when things go wrong.
Jeez.. I'm on an 18 day streak and I'm trying to get it rlly high.. But OK.. 800 days! I thought 18 was big!
18 is great! What language are you learning?
Honestly, it's not really about 18 days versus 800 days... if you've made your language learning part of your daily habit, then you're doing well. Before I started my 800 day streak, I actually lost a streak of 72 days in Spanish... today, I do not speak Spanish at all, because I was never really properly into it, I just had the streak (meaning that when I lost the streak, I gave up).
Anyway, thanks for your comment. I want to do more language learning videos but they don't generate as much interest as the reviews, so thank you for showing your interest!
@@daysandwords Really! Well, I'm learning Spanish! I love the language and I'm getting help from a Spanish/English/Romanian friend. Three languages, ik very good! But I'm getting better!
@@pyroaa464 - OK, keep it up! I'd love to learn Spanish again now that I have some South American friends, but at the moment I need to focus on my Swedish and French. Thanks again for your comments.
@@daysandwords thanks for the pin its my first one! Muchas gracias! (Thank you very much!)
Remember If you end the streak he will end your family
Sometimes when I mess with Duolingo, it feels more like a chore than studying.
Yeah I have newer videos saying this very thing. Thank you!
Studying feels like a chore for a lot of people
@@goldendovah7613 Yes but in a different way. Studying feels like a chore because you have to focus... It's not a case of not having motivation to study, because the motive is there, to learn to speak the language. Duolingo on the other feels like a chore because it feels like a grind, a constant and repetitive never-ending grind. Congratulations if duolingo helps u, but honestly I have tried it and didn't like it at all.
I agree. I get tired from doing it.
@@Archaon97 Yeah, I'd say it's worth a try, but if it doesn't motivate you at all try something else. For me every single different method of learning languages feels like a chore, Duo was just the only one I could maintain for more than a couple of months straight. I think in the end it was the simplicity of the structure and feeling like I'm moving forward, even if that's kind of artificial. Doing something like FSI, Assimil, Babbel, Mango, Lingvist, text books, etc, I always just felt like I was bashing into a wall forever. Duo felt like I was very slowly climbing it (and I am moderatly slow - about halfway through a gold Spanish in a year). Even Duo I get tired of, and dropped down to lower daily usage at times (50 xp minimum though), but I never stopped entirely, unlike every other method I've tried.
“The beetle is drinking milk”
-Duolingo German
I like "Der Schnecke kommt aus Russland!"
The snail comes from russia
@@cashxx_x” Die Schnecke kommt aus Russland “ trust me I am German
I once came across a sentence that says
"The bed is a food"
Korean duolingo same
samee korean duolingo is c r a z y
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@charlotte-4190 The "alphabet" part literally let me into fury. How hard is it to accept that I will not learn Hangul better from arbitrarily transcribing it in Latin. Worse yet Duolingo pronounces some of them literally the same and then I shall decide which of the two are transcribed as given. WTF!?
Nah, fam.
@@aoelp duolingo sucks at teaching the korean alphabet.. it’s confusing
i used youtube videos to learn hangul instead lol
When I was practicing my Japanese I bump into this sentence called “ he is taking off his clothes now,” and “he is wearing an underwear”
Me: ?.??
Well, I suppose it would be useful if you were writing smut...
Ara ara
@@shoeitchy7613 definitely
Blaze how to add?
I'm also learning Japanese, so far my favorite sentence i got is "Excuse me, I am an apple." 🤣
I just burst out laughing when he quoted “you have a nice duck”, and then I didn’t have time to catch my breath before he double whammied us with “you have a nice elephant”.
The French sentence I had to translate was Julia’s husband is Mexican
Yeah me too lol
@Kaarthik Sameer haha you will
Le mari de Julia est mexicain.
@Kaarthik Sameer you absolutely do, quite early on. I'm almost at the fourth checkpoint and I've had to practice that level a lot when they break.
@@VampiraVonGhoulscout very good. Correct sentence
“She has two boyfriends” - Japanese duolingo :)))))
Good for her
:)))))
@@sayunara LMAO
Vietnamese spotted
"I am an armadillo" _- Portuguese 🇧🇷
This gave me a lot of confidence, because this is my third time attempting Japanese, but the first time I’ve actually gone and immersed myself in the language, and I’ve been doing my Duolingo every day as well. I’m eager and excited about learning and still looking for new strategies. Don’t know how long this will last but it feels great!
Was studying Turkish when I came across "the cow eats meat", I was like "oh so we're entering cannibalism territory now?"
Hehe they sometimes do
le faek Kolay gelsin. Sincere regards from turkey.
LMAO AS A NATIVE TURKISH SPEAKER I WHEEZED
How is that cannibalism?
@@DragonFellowship its basicly cow eating it self-
Me: *has to skip a day to get school stuff ready*
Duo: "My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined."
Hhhhh yeah that youtuber xD
So glad I found your video. I am learning Welsh on Duolingo and recently started to incorporate things like learning children's songs in Welsh that I found on the web. Also, regarding weird sentences- a few I've encountered are, "Owen likes to eat parsnips in Antarctica," (but he seems to buy them in Ireland), "You did not get a present yesterday; you got nothing." and " Megan has a terrible car and terrible clothes." I find Duolingo fun (161-day streak!) but I can see the need for additional learning opportunities.
I've learnt more from duolingo in the day than I did in all of school
Fr tho
Me (from Sweden) and my friend (from Germany) are learning each other's languages via Duolingo and it's super fun.
He get sentences like: "Kill him! Otherwise I'll do it!"
While I get sentences like: "The vegetables does not like vegetarians"
Duo is weird man..
Hahaha I had forgotten that "Otherwise I'll do it" one.
Got the one about the vegetables too hahah
Sounds like they're teaching those illegal immigrants pretty well. Communication is important
@@DruidicOrthodox what
Indeed I am.
I’m so glad I found your channel! Really good information and encouraging stuff!
My favorite phrase I got to translate in Duolingo so far: “The lion is eating a child.” No joke. 🤣🦁👼🏻
Aaahaha
Mine is "that banana sleeps" in Indonesian
Løven spiser et barn
@@cesaugusto108 you speak danish as well?
@@lifeuncovered6188 Learning it
I am almost a year into learning Spanish, with duolingo as one of many tools, I must say this guy is spot on. The points on image, and your attitude toward being a speaker is spot on! Must do the ground work.
Thanks Trey. Although, my views towards Duo in the last six months have changed haha. See my latest video on Duo (why I quit a 1000 day streak).
In Russian they have
"this is not a forest this is a salad"
"who do you believe me or the cat"
"strange people go to this shop"
" she has a worse breakfast then you"
"the soul is an important thing but now I have a headache"
I’m learning Latin and it’s hilarious literally every other sentence is an innuendo it’s all like: My sister sleeps in the city. Do you want to sleep in the city??
In Indonesian, I got "that banana sleeps"
The echo chamber chamber Latin voices from Ancient Rome! What is my name? asks the confused ghost. Spooky!
It seems like an episode of Maury.
WHO IS THE FATHER
Italian has given me gold such as "they write in sugar" and "I drink the bottle"
In Greek I got Maria, the carrot 💀
My arabic Duolingo litterally gave me the sentence “bob you are an Apple”
What's with Duolingo and making people be apples? 😂
You what just occurred to me? Bob may be an apple, but does he bob for them?
My Arabic Duolingo gave me “my television is in my lion”
بوب انت تفاحة
Yeah well Japanese gives you: Excuse me, I am an apple
Thanks for the tip, “the image of oneself as a learner is important.” Very useful!
I wasn't super confident about that when I said it, but 20 months later and I'm a LOT more fluent in Swedish than I was when I made this video... so I agree with my past self 100%.
"Tell your friends, it helps"
Learning by peer pressure
"I eat the black apple"
-French Duolingo
I just got that one not long ago xD
I think I got "the blue ducks drink black water". still mildly unsettled by that mental image, haha.
@@PeachPlastic That black water is oil or ink
Good job m8. Been learning Spanish 2 months shy of a year- very good time to visit South America and practice! I’ve been in Colombia and Peru for 2 weeks now for work. ¡Cristo vive!
I agree on stupid sentences.
Like "mina föraldrar är fula" "my parents are ugly" i can never forget that sentence because it made me laugh and question wth?? Obv Duolingo actually succeeded on that. That's enough of a success from a free app imo.
Thanks for your comment.
That sentence would actually be "MinA föräldrar är fulA." because possessive pronouns and adjectives will match the plural.
Unfortunately, since I made this video, Duo has been downgraded more than once and I have a video coming soon on why it's basically just a toy now. Although the weird sentences are still good.
I am swedish and for me, this sounds more like "my parents are" either bad-behaved, annoying or evil.
Although that depends on the context obviously 😂😂
Die antwort is zweiundvierzig. Was ist die frage?
The answer is 42, what is the question?
So deep.
@@cristian-bull is that from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy?
@@huginug yep
I'm swedish, where isn't there a Norwegian architect in my bed? 😩
wtf
Bara gå till Norge det är nära
@@screwtapee Jag tror chanserna för att hitta norska arkitekter i sängen är betydligt större i Norge än i Sverige, vilket nog bara skulle förvärra saker och ting för Tora i det här fallet.
@@stekeln sorry i dont speak viking
@@aaaaaaaaeaaaae "I think the chances of finding a Norwegian architect in bed are significantly greater in Norway than in Sweden, which would probably only make things worse for Tora in this case."
"Why did you buy that fat penguin?"
Duo, fat-shaming is not cool
Haha in Swedish they have "A fat woman loves a skinny man."
😂😂
@@daysandwords That's actually true, though.
@@daysandwords in French there are lgbtq and I’m living for it
I just started Duolingo in Chinese since in my school I have a Chinese class mandatory. So I wanted to learn more, Duolingo helped me a bit on remembering the things I forgot on my chinese class.
The weirdest sentence I’ve had is: “the fish drinks oil” 😂
Haha, that doesn't really seem that weird compared to some others on Duo. But I suppose it is a weird thing to think of.
Poisoned seas are a problem in real life
All that drilling
Same lol
That's deep... In an ocean.... Full of oil.
Amen - thanks for the hard-learned insight that your self-image is key. I am convinced you are right in this and it actually changes everything.
My favorite Duolingo sentence from the french course is “the bride can’t undress by herself.” 😂
PS: turn up your audio. Had to turn up the volume to hear you then the ad after the video was super loud. 👍🏻
Is this better:
ruclips.net/video/uf-bBqoBfUo/видео.html
?
(Rhetorical question.)
I loved your analogy to mathematics. It made perfect sense! You compared the app to becoming astute with the fundamentals of arithmetic as a means of stepping to more complex structures and it hit me right in the feels. 🙂
I’ve gotten “It’s raining men”, “I am taking my clothes off”, and “My parents do not like that you eat ants” in my Swedish lessons.
I just started duo today (French) and the weirdest ones I've got are
"are you a cat?" and
"you are a horse"
@Dave Anderson lol
me too
i remember getting that when i first started lmao
Same 😂
Est-ce'que tu es un chat?
Tu es un cheval.
but really, why is there a Norwegian architect lying on my bed?
Bra video! Det är inte många människor som bestämmer sig för att studera svenska så det är kul att se personer som lär sig det.
Ha en trevlig dag! (:
I (Dutch) have been learning Swedish for two months and I can understand this comment perfectly. Duo works!
Well said! I have already started watching TV shows in Spanish and listening to Spanish music and I am only 39 days in but Duolingo is helping me do this. It is a fantastic learning tool but should be used with other learning tools too.
Thanks for your comment!
Can you try a month of replacing your Duolingo with something else (e.g. watching 'Easy Spanish' on RUclips) and see how that works out for you? I wouldn't be surprised if your learning increases by at least 20%.
Days of French 'n' Swedish ha ha Already have, Easy Spanish, Extra, Bueno Gente and listening to Spanish music I like the song Core by Jesse y Joy and when I can pronounce more of the lyrics I will work out the chords and try to sing it 😊
There are some good Spanish songs I could recommend, Tú by Maye, Nunca es suficiente by Natalia Lafourcade, some Canserbero, etc.
"The bear is drinking beer" "Bjørnen drikker øl" -Norwegian Duolingo 😅😅
just another day in Norway
@@void.walker. 😂😂😂😂 Yeah...😅
The german tree also has this phrase.
Der Bär trinkt Bier
@@brunomonteiro3646 da hätte man aber auch nichts anderes erwartet😅jedes Lebewesen in Deutschland trinkt, sage ich als Deutscher😜😂
I really wish more people would just start a video answering their question / title. It makes RUclips so much better. Watched the whole video just because of that. Thank you.
I'm doing doulingo for the basics, once I'm done with the tree I'll do a different program, I'm also using other apps to build my Spanish vocabulary.
Fair enough. For Spanish I would recommend Rocket Spanish, and the dialogue tracks from SpanishPod101... honestly with a language as commonly taught as Spanish, I wouldn't bother with Duo, but that's just me.
I'm also using Spanishpod101 and Spanish with Paul and a couple of other apps to learn Spaish, along with listening to Harry Potter series on Audible.
Days of French 'n' Swedish What would you recommend for German?
Me gustan las Raspberries. Bonitas computadoras
Hola! puedes preguntar lo que quieras, hablo español pero el latino.
In the Duolingo Danish lesson:
“The boy touched the bear’s red object.”
WTF!?
RED ROCKET!!!
Furries rise up
@@marcianitobailandocumbiareal ÒwÓ
熊のミルクを飲みたい
@@marcianitobailandocumbiareal does that mean "I want to drink the bear's milk"?
@@marcianitobailandocumbiareal 俺は熊だ
One of the most honest reviews I’ve seen. I’ve been using Duolingo for the past several months and I’ve learned a lot in terms of vocabulary, grammar and and basic sentence construction. I’ve augmented with as he described with podcasts, music, and short stories. The route to becoming proficient isn’t singular. Great review!
wait people think the weird sentences are useless? I have always liked Dulingo for having sentences like that and found them more helpful than "sensible" ones on other apps/sites, like yeah it doesn't just give you a phrase you can use as soon as you read it but (at least to me) it makes actually understanding how the language works way easier. I honestly thought everybody felt that way and that was the reason they're like that in the first place.
I'm not even sure why learning a language in a useless way would make me feel like I understand it more, maybe just it being abstract...? idk, did anybody else find them helpful and know how to explain it lol
i like them cos theyre funny
Oh so you soled you're soul to duolingo
StaySkeptic yeah that makes sense
I kept getting "I am a spider" & "I am a penguin"...both phrases I am sure I will never need to know no matter which Spanish speaking country I visit.
I thought Duolingo sentences were weird exactly because of that. The thing is, you can easily find "normal", "useful" content when learning a language. Stuff like "a ticket, please", "where is the restroom?", but sometimes you memorize those phrases as an absolute, rather than as the many distinct parts (nouns, verbs, subjects, adjectives).
Duolingo's system of weird sentences helps you learn them both as isolated parts of a sentences, and as absolute. It also is easier to memorize what is what because of how bizarre the situations depicted seem.
Of course, if you want to advance in a language, Duolingo should only be a part of your methodology when it comes to learning and studying. Most languages can't be mastered unless you submerge yourself into it by consuming various forms of content, if not downright going somewhere in which you need it to communicate.
I'm on day 31 of learning French and I am very grateful to Duolingo . It's all about the willingness to learn something . Merci Beaucoup!
So you must be more than 3 years in now, right ?
@@rahyan. I took a break then came back to do 435 days then quit again
"Your insects are on my plate."
-Italian Duolingo
I tuoi insetti sono sul mio piatto
Oh I was recalling it as "Your insect is in my soup." Editing my comment
In the Hebrew course I got: He imports pink spiders.
Why do you want to study Hebrew?
אתה יהודי או סתם רוצה ללמוד עברית?
@@alolisa113 to read the old testament more accurately
That's actually a growing industry in israel
So from what I’m getting: Duolingo gives you the tools, and you have to put yourself into other advance courses / speak the language to use said tools.
Hi - kinda, but this is a very old video now, there is a much newer and better one with 12 free language learning tools:
ruclips.net/video/EKWXOtWfbUE/видео.html&t=1s
Thanks!
Wunderbar. I just started using Duolingo to learn French. I agree 100% with you about the necessity of combining Duolingo with other things like podcasts and movies and RUclips videos.
exactly, it depends on yourself. you go can to the same gym where Connor McGregor goes everyday and train there, but if you dont train seriously and you are lazy you will never achieve what McGregor did even at the very basic levels
Mrs. Riggs Catalan
Mrs. Riggs Ludan. Thanks.
very well said
Yeah I started figuring out this. That Duolingo is pretty effective, but it's more effective while using other language resources
i m using duolingo for french i m getting good at writing and reading and listening , today it finally clicked that i can think in french , its a big thing for me it made me smile and i thought biy i can learn it even faster , i m at just 1st level greeting and basics my vocabulary is very limited by the way
I'm learning arabic and there are APPARENTLY stupid ones like
"The door is a door"
BUT... Those are quite useful for understanding the differences between "The" and "a" in arabic. They will keep appearing until you demonstrate that you dominate the use of that.
الباب باب
That’s so Philosophical
Duolingo give you the answer “the door is door or not”
I think Duolingo is good, Using only duolingo wont really make you fluent.
the only to become fluent is actually speaking it and using it which is hard to do
Yea
Yep there is
You're the first RUclipsr who genuinely convinced me to like your video!
karens in non english speaking country : *ENGLISH OR PERISH*
ucu hshd shut up
Yep I know a few of them personally.
Ugu sprtkauzgr eeeeee
To Release is To Resolve what’s your obsession with the name Karen? Are you mentally attached to it?
Right?
The volume is very low I’m not trying to be mean but you’re volume is low compared to your other videos keep it up though!
Yeah I know, this is quite an old video and after I shot it, I found out the camera's sound is broken haha. Thanks for the comment. :-)
@@daysandwords Just use an audio editor to equalize and edit volume like an app like Audacity. Thanks for the vids.
@@jestes7 "this is quite an old video and after I shot it, I found out the camera's sound is broken haha."
Well actually no, that wouldn't fix it, because like I said, the camera's audio was broken, which meant that it was CRAZY noisy. So this volume that you hear was already pumped up about 10dB and then de-noised as much as physically possible without getting that horrible underwater effect.
What's more, using Audacity to sort out problems like this (which no longer exist anyway, have you watched any of my videos made since April?) adds about an hour to the whole process, which results in hours I don't have.
What annoys me about this video is that it's my 2nd most viewed, and no one seems to take into account the fact that about 40 of my 50 videos about language learning have almost perfect audio... people choose this one from February to tell me how I should do my audio...
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@@daysandwords Gotcha. You do you man. I'm just a perfectionist and I wouldn't have released a video that didn't meet my own personal standards and would have fixed any issues especially audio regardless of time and a lot of times people here on RUclips have no idea about audio editing lol. But yeah sometimes I spend way too much on trivial things.
@@jestes7 OK. Check this out.
ruclips.net/video/3LAwk78QS9k/видео.html
From Duolingo's Welsh course: "Owen is selling parsnips in the nightclub"
Bahahaha. Reminds me of a James Acaster joke.
Sounds like "pannas" might be code for ecstasy or blow. 😂
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Thanks Duo.
O got this on Turkish too😅
@ haha it’s a universal fact then
italian duo:
“where is the knife?”
“i ate the bean”
“the knife is in the boot”
“the man is with the fish”
“the bee is hidden in the sugar”
“are you a horse?”
“that tiger is mine, not yours”
Dov'è il coltello?
Ho mangiato il fagiolo.
Il coltello è nello stivale
L'uomo è con il pesce
L'ape è nascosta nello zucchero
Sei un cavallo?
Quella tigre è mia, non tua
I got "The tiger is yours"
Awesome. One of the best I've watched that reflects an experience of learning languages. Thanks Swedish guy :D
no one,
duolingo norwegian in a men’s voice: Er Jeg ein kvinne? (am i a woman)
me: uh idk up to you love!
I'm an architect myself, and all I have to say is you've gotta watch out for those Norwegians.
Fantastic video, I love how you dive right in. No time is wasted
my favourite duolingo sentence i got: "my dog sells hats"
it's on the japanese course btw
I typically repeat everything on Duolingo out loud, and use voice to text to practice speaking. Sometimes with weird words, I'll do a motion that helps me remember
Keep going on your Swedish! It’s really good to learn more and more languages over the years. I am currently trying to learn Spanish on Duolingo, and it’s really working out. Keep going!
This man is brilliant. I love your insights into language learning as a whole.. subscribed.
Thank you!
What a lovely comment. Trying for a few more videos before I go back to work in January!
I was biased at the begining about the quality of the video because of audio, but actually it was filled with so much wisdom and to-the-point content that I can conclude it was totally worth it
Thanks for making this video! I'm at the beginning stages of learning a new language and this was helpful.
"You're not my dad!"
I'm learning Russian on Duo and when this came up I was dying😂 Now I can say a meme in Russian. Ето не моа рара!
Sorry, but that's actually very wrong, I'd say "Ты не мой папа".
@@veetierkkila3737 why, i've corrected a person
I just past 300 days of Russian with Duolingo. I pick up words in Russian Laguange Movies and TV I watch one just about every day. I am really enjoying it. Oh and I flunked Spanish in High School twice. The Spanish Teacher lied to me and being the sort that I am, you get to do that once, and I just would not show up for the class, school never said a word either about it to me. Private High School and my name were on the checks for the tuition. I still have the account, I am past 65 now. Duolingo or any other study course is going to be as good as the effort you put into it. I would love to spend two to four years in St. Peterburg, Russia, and take Russian Language Classes as a full-time student. The Wuhan/CCP virus put the breaks on that notion.
'ето' means 'this is' it's actually 'ты' which means you're. Learnt that from Duolingo ^^
@@kraiaikrai8962 Sorry, you have a mistake it's actually 'это', but meaning is right
I took french 1 and 2 in middle school. I was only taking it because I knew in high school, i could finally take a japanese class (i went to a huge high school that offered Japanese, and i had been teaching myself Japanese for 3 years by then, and was excited to take a real class and was fully prepared to leave French) so i ditched it the second I went into high school. Freshman year, I did just that. I went into japanese instead. My family ended up moving across the country my sophomore year and I couldn’t take a japanese class anymore, so i switched into my new high school’s mandarin program, and I really hate it. I’ve spent two years in Mandarin at this new school and I really don’t like it, and I heard the French program was good. In an effort to not have to retake French 1 and 2 in senior year of highschool, i’m teaching myself French this summer. Wish me luck...
Bonne chance
literally story of my life
Bonne chance!
Ganbatte! You can do it! Ja yo.
Loya Frostwind ありがとう，谢谢， merci!
Learning French. Thank you for a very positive and helpful video!
I did Duolingo for two months or so and it's like: Salt is salty
I'm a native french speaker, I learned English randomly on the internet and am now fluent after 2-3 years. I started spanish on duo 2 weeks ago and it seems quite legit, I really feel like I'm learning things 👍
It can actually be helpful but being obligated to sign in everyday to keep your streak in those repetitive lessons is tiring. I’m learning French, did it for 100 days (A2) and stopped it because I couldn’t go any further. Now I’m looking for alternatives to continue.
Oui, j'ai beaucoup appris.
j'apprends le francais avec Duolingo, tres dificile
I have been using Duolingo for a few years now and would say I'm between level B1 and B2 in Spanish. I do appreciate that I seriously need other methods as I cannot learn proper grammar. I watch Spanish language programmes, listen to Spanish bands etc just to hear the sound of the vocabulary, but I wouldn't have any idea at all if it wasn't for initially using the app. Yes, it's very frustrating, especially when they 'change for the better', removing everything that you loved about it, but it's a free way to learn and can be fun!