OK OK hold up I have a lot to say and I'm only 2 minutes in haha... You are attempting to do CRAZY amounts of Duo. I am not interested in whether you learn French or not because, yeah, I think I can see where that one's going haha, but I am interested to see if you can even do that much Duolingo. Like when you said those 3 units in 2 days... dang... I'll update my comment as we go... Edit: "It's been taking so long to get through these units." - Yep! Duo would actually be good if it weren't throttled so much. My argument in the video of mine that you used the clip from is essentially that, yeah, it can be sort of helpful for a very brief time but once you find more useful resources, it becomes essentially useless, and this argument that I see thrown out there that it's actually brilliant is just the world's most powerful copium. BTW, your French tests... French is a really hard language to test an English speaker's knowledge of ACCURATELY, because it's essentially impossible to remove external factors such as: how good is the person at deducing meaning? How vast is their English vocab? (e.g. "trove"... If you know that word you might know that it actually comes from "find"... which makes the French "trouver" easy. What's their exam technique like? etc etc.) - I once tested C1 on quite an intense French test, and I was absolutely never C1 in French, I was probably B1 but with a B2 vocab... and then a C3 English vocab, which essentially just means French with some different spelling.
Wow hi, thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment! Nate and I have both watched your videos and love your content, so that means a lot coming from you! I’m so glad you understand where I’m coming from and agree. Obviously I did not learn the entire French language in one week only using Duolingo… it was just meant to be a fun challenge (that obviously some took a little too seriously). I did not realize, however, how hard and time consuming it was going to be since I’ve only ever casually used Duolingo. I definitely agree that is helpful for a little bit but it gets SO REPETITIVE and useless after a while. There are so many better resources out there. Also, thanks for the note on the French tests. That makes a lot more sense hearing that it’s hard to accurately test a learners ability. Thanks so much again for watching and commenting! Your language tips are always welcome!
As a Duolingo alternative, I personally use Immersive Translate to learn a new language. I’ve been using it to learn Vietnamese the past few months, and I have to say, it’s been really game-changing.
@@KateandNate24 Just to let you know - these comments are by bots, I get at least one every day. Immersive Translate seems to be nothing, or maybe actually malware. It's not a language learning app in any case.
I just saw Lamont’s video and thought I’d check out the original. I used Duolingo back in the early days when it was still OK, but when I’ve tried it more recently, I just found it so frustrating. It just keeps repeating the same words over and over and doesn’t let me move on. It’s soooooo slow. Needless to say, I don’t usually use it anymore. There are far easier ways to learn a language. It reminds me of elementary school when we had to write all the spelling words ten times each even if we already knew how to spell them.
Completing the first THREE sections of duolingo only gets you to top level A1, you have to do 4 to get A2 so even A1 is optimistic. Keep going though! You will improve!
Je vous remercie pour votre video et je vous félicite pour les progrès que vous faites en Français. J'apprécie votre ouverture d'esprit et j'espère que vous continuerez. Si vous vivez quelques temps chez nous, cela donnera vie a votre Français et vous permettra de prendre gout a la langue française, de comprendre et de saisir les nuances du Français. Je vous encourage et vous remercie
Yea I saw her saying, I'm gonna do a unit per day.. I thought there is no way she can. 2 or 3 hours on duolingo make my head hurt. Then when I saw her half doing lessons I thought, yea you might pass, but that's not gonna prepare you... they she mis pronounced some words. How did I know it? Still it was impressive to see her learn so quickly, I hope she had not forgotten and that she makes a new video proving me Wong bc I an a1 on french Duolingo
I have studied French since middle school in the 1980s, visited France a few times, did fax machine tech support in French after college, and have been on a nearly 800 day streak in duolingo trying to refresh my memory, but trying all same online tests you did, I only scored B1. I've apparently (according to the tests) forgotten the conditional tense, plus-que-parfait, and mixed up depuis and il y a for placing an event in the past vs starting in the past and continuing, and duolingo hasn't really gotten to the point of refreshing those topics for me even after 800 days of lessons.
We both study and speak Spanish conversationally and want to eventually branch out into other languages in the future. We aren’t sure what those might be yet, but Mandarin and Italian are definitely two on our list! Any suggestions?
SUBSCRIBER NUMERO 495. I've been learning spanish as well, unfortunately nobody in Botswana hablas Castellano so i haven't really had an opportunity to practice my speaking. This seems interesting tho. I think French is a sucky idioma pero i'm definetely trying this. God Bless!😎
Thanks for watching! I’ve never studied Russian so I’m not sure what the best resources are specifically, but I bet there are good RUclips channels you could learn from, and Pimsleur and Babbel are also very popular apps, good luck!
Good job , those sections are ao long in duolingo , i have been learning norwegian for last 190 days 5 min per day only but i think i understand alot if i can see subtitle but not so much with hearing it only is it like this for you also?
- Do you have a full time job? - As-tu un travail à temps plein ? - Tienes un trabajo de tiempo completo Do you have you own apartment or you live con your mom? Did you buy your own car or it was bought for you. - Reason for these questions is ... - I WANT TO FOLLOW YOUR STEPS "
Saw your outrageous claim in the title and just dropped in to say that it is clickbait (fail), bullshit (fail) or bullshit clickbait (double fail). No one learns French in 7 days they sure as hell don't do it with Duolingo
@joshua91811 That's a very charitable and kind interpretation, but no, it is deceptive and dishonest clickbait. You don't take 7 days to learn "bonjour".
@@Bob-ns4tj And yet you feel free to judge the commenters when you know nothing about us. You do not know what I have or have not accomplished in languages. Pot meet kettle. Regardless of what cope you want to provide, it is irrelevant. My OP said that it was bullshit clickbait and I still say it was bullshit clickbait, so you have missed the point entirely. If she admits that she was too optimistic, then the claim in the title was bogus.
And i became in to be more rich at elon musk in 7 days And i became in to be more richer that elon musk in 7 days to be fluid in the language least is 3 month and that with study it completely all the day in those months , I have 2 month learned but all the day immerso and, already want to be fluid in the language with 2 or 1 hour in the day and it can speak in bit time is imposible . to learn a leangue the laws are ,the law of pareto , immersion absolute , speak , think , watch , hear everything in inglish and in bit time you can have results
Salut ! Greetings from England. Love the clickbait title. Learning French is much much harder than learning Spanish, and to learn conversational French which will help you get around France is, In My Humble (and Honest) Opinion, harder than learning German for a native English speaker. Of course, as an American, you have the option of spending possibly several months in Quebec and trying to pick up a decent level of spoken French there. When I heard in the video that you wanted to get to level A2 in 7 working days, I shrugged my shoulders and said "Whatever!" C'etait tres interessante pour tout le monde a regarder ton video
Ha, yeah you’re right, French was very hard to learn! As I said in the video, this was really just a way to challenge myself and test how much I could possibly learn in a week only using Duolingo. I really did believe A2 was a possibility in 7 days, but unfortunately, only using this one resource proves that to be near impossible. So, maybe I was a bit too optimistic. Thanks for your feedback!
@@TheUnshelteredHomeschooler The main issue in the medium (say 3-6) years to long term is how much you will be able to remember a few years after you have done such a crash course. I think that the younger you are, probably the more you will remember, I'm speaking as someone who learned German from about 22-26 years of age to somewhere between a good B1 to hopefully a decent B2 level - but 30 years later I have forgotten a lot of the more nuanced and technical aspects of the language and I would need a good 6-18 months of 3-5 times a week substantial practice to be "confidently everyday level fluent" once again.
yeah long ago they were ok, but these days their dog water!! they've taken a lot of the good stuff out!!! Evan Edinger said it well thats its good, not great!!
OK OK hold up I have a lot to say and I'm only 2 minutes in haha...
You are attempting to do CRAZY amounts of Duo. I am not interested in whether you learn French or not because, yeah, I think I can see where that one's going haha, but I am interested to see if you can even do that much Duolingo. Like when you said those 3 units in 2 days... dang... I'll update my comment as we go...
Edit: "It's been taking so long to get through these units." - Yep! Duo would actually be good if it weren't throttled so much.
My argument in the video of mine that you used the clip from is essentially that, yeah, it can be sort of helpful for a very brief time but once you find more useful resources, it becomes essentially useless, and this argument that I see thrown out there that it's actually brilliant is just the world's most powerful copium.
BTW, your French tests... French is a really hard language to test an English speaker's knowledge of ACCURATELY, because it's essentially impossible to remove external factors such as: how good is the person at deducing meaning? How vast is their English vocab? (e.g. "trove"... If you know that word you might know that it actually comes from "find"... which makes the French "trouver" easy.
What's their exam technique like? etc etc.) - I once tested C1 on quite an intense French test, and I was absolutely never C1 in French, I was probably B1 but with a B2 vocab... and then a C3 English vocab, which essentially just means French with some different spelling.
Wow hi, thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment! Nate and I have both watched your videos and love your content, so that means a lot coming from you!
I’m so glad you understand where I’m coming from and agree. Obviously I did not learn the entire French language in one week only using Duolingo… it was just meant to be a fun challenge (that obviously some took a little too seriously). I did not realize, however, how hard and time consuming it was going to be since I’ve only ever casually used Duolingo. I definitely agree that is helpful for a little bit but it gets SO REPETITIVE and useless after a while. There are so many better resources out there.
Also, thanks for the note on the French tests. That makes a lot more sense hearing that it’s hard to accurately test a learners ability.
Thanks so much again for watching and commenting! Your language tips are always welcome!
I am still using Duolingo because that owl holds my whole family hostage.
I am forgot to do my lesson in Duolingo😭😭😭
Now i'm stuck
I am Brazilian. And I don't know If I'm speaking correctly
@@Davigs16 did you learn english from duolingo? because its great.
@@randomyoutubeuser123 yes, thank you. But in the Brazil We learn english language in the School too
@@Davigs16 oh ok
As a Duolingo alternative, I personally use Immersive Translate to learn a new language. I’ve been using it to learn Vietnamese the past few months, and I have to say, it’s been really game-changing.
That’s awesome, thanks for the suggestion!
@@KateandNate24 Just to let you know - these comments are by bots, I get at least one every day. Immersive Translate seems to be nothing, or maybe actually malware. It's not a language learning app in any case.
Really enjoyed the vid! especially the skit at the last, so hilarious omg. Wish you all the best!
I just saw Lamont’s video and thought I’d check out the original. I used Duolingo back in the early days when it was still OK, but when I’ve tried it more recently, I just found it so frustrating. It just keeps repeating the same words over and over and doesn’t let me move on. It’s soooooo slow. Needless to say, I don’t usually use it anymore. There are far easier ways to learn a language.
It reminds me of elementary school when we had to write all the spelling words ten times each even if we already knew how to spell them.
Really good video definitely earned a sub
Completing the first THREE sections of duolingo only gets you to top level A1, you have to do 4 to get A2 so even A1 is optimistic. Keep going though! You will improve!
Good to know!
This is hilarious, love the vid!
Thank you!!
Je vous remercie pour votre video et je vous félicite pour les progrès que vous faites en Français. J'apprécie votre ouverture d'esprit et j'espère que vous continuerez. Si vous vivez quelques temps chez nous, cela donnera vie a votre Français et vous permettra de prendre gout a la langue française, de comprendre et de saisir les nuances du Français. Je vous encourage et vous remercie
Yea I saw her saying, I'm gonna do a unit per day..
I thought there is no way she can. 2 or 3 hours on duolingo make my head hurt. Then when I saw her half doing lessons I thought, yea you might pass, but that's not gonna prepare you... they she mis pronounced some words. How did I know it? Still it was impressive to see her learn so quickly, I hope she had not forgotten and that she makes a new video proving me Wong bc I an a1 on french Duolingo
Hello, I'm French and I'm learning/improving my English. Are there any native english people who would like to do a reciprocal exchange of knowledge ?
I’ve used the app Tandem in the past and really enjoyed it! There are tons of people on there looking to do an exchange
@@KateandNate24 Thank you :)
Good video! Great that its honest and shows language learning as it actually is, unlike some youtubers. This video shares some really good advice too!
Nice video! Love the scenes you made 🤣😂
Super vidéo et bravo!😊
I have studied French since middle school in the 1980s, visited France a few times, did fax machine tech support in French after college, and have been on a nearly 800 day streak in duolingo trying to refresh my memory, but trying all same online tests you did, I only scored B1. I've apparently (according to the tests) forgotten the conditional tense, plus-que-parfait, and mixed up depuis and il y a for placing an event in the past vs starting in the past and continuing, and duolingo hasn't really gotten to the point of refreshing those topics for me even after 800 days of lessons.
What other languages do you interest in?
We both study and speak Spanish conversationally and want to eventually branch out into other languages in the future. We aren’t sure what those might be yet, but Mandarin and Italian are definitely two on our list! Any suggestions?
@@KateandNate24try Swahili spoken by over 100 million people
subbed before you were famous😏
Let’s goooo
I´ve been using Duolingo for 3 years and I can't talk at all..😅
8:45 the language is not perfect but the mimics are 😉
9:02 I would like a glass of eggs
Do more videos like this pls!!
Definitely more to come!
J'apprends le français presque 25 jours et je dois dire que j'ai joie parce que je pense que j'ai level a2
Awesome!
Language learning is just Dark Souls.
Why does Google recommend me a Duolingo video, like, 2 weeks after I actually started using it 😅?
It's somewhat scary 😬.
Me encantó el vídeo. Sigue así!
Gracias amigo!
frérot même les français parviennent pas à parler leur propre langue
Haha I’m glad I’m not alone
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I've been learning spanish as well, unfortunately nobody in Botswana hablas Castellano so i haven't really had an opportunity to practice my speaking. This seems interesting tho. I think French is a sucky idioma pero i'm definetely trying this. God Bless!😎
Good luck and God bless to you too!
Hii im 4 lingual and i’m currently learning Russian with Duolingo, it is pretty helpful but I NEED new methods, any recommendations??
Thanks for watching! I’ve never studied Russian so I’m not sure what the best resources are specifically, but I bet there are good RUclips channels you could learn from, and Pimsleur and Babbel are also very popular apps, good luck!
Would you teach me learn French?...
I am subscriber number 140 🎉❤
Waiting for you to become famous
Good job , those sections are ao long in duolingo , i have been learning norwegian for last 190 days 5 min per day only but i think i understand alot if i can see subtitle but not so much with hearing it only is it like this for you also?
Yes it’s the same way for me when I watch French videos
- Do you have a full time job?
- As-tu un travail à temps plein ?
- Tienes un trabajo de tiempo completo
Do you have you own apartment or you live con your mom?
Did you buy your own car or it was bought for you.
- Reason for these questions is ...
- I WANT TO FOLLOW YOUR STEPS "
Saw your outrageous claim in the title and just dropped in to say that it is clickbait (fail), bullshit (fail) or bullshit clickbait (double fail). No one learns French in 7 days they sure as hell don't do it with Duolingo
@joshua91811Nah this is hilarious😂
@joshua91811 That's a very charitable and kind interpretation, but no, it is deceptive and dishonest clickbait. You don't take 7 days to learn "bonjour".
The A2 expectation for 7 days of Duolingo is far to be optimistic
4:13 she already said that she was too optimistic about her goals
And you guys are talking and judging her when you can’t even do half of what she did
@@Bob-ns4tj And yet you feel free to judge the commenters when you know nothing about us. You do not know what I have or have not accomplished in languages. Pot meet kettle.
Regardless of what cope you want to provide, it is irrelevant. My OP said that it was bullshit clickbait and I still say it was bullshit clickbait, so you have missed the point entirely. If she admits that she was too optimistic, then the claim in the title was bogus.
If you learned a language in 7 days, you’re way too over confident because no, no you did not.
True 😔
je sais pas mais je pense que avec ca doulingo vous n'allez pas apprendre francais . je pense
C'est bien d'avoir essayé par contre ce croissant-cookie c'est non
Je me demandais qui allait en parler, je m'attendais a un syndic du croissant dans les commentaires, déçu de voir ton commentaire si bas :')
@@Selcatys ok
My teacher
THE COMMENTS 😂😂😂
Muito pica ver os gringo tentando aprender uma nova linguakkkkk, saudações do Brasil (the best country ever)
And i became in to be more rich at elon musk in 7 days
And i became in to be more richer that elon musk in 7 days to be fluid in the language least is 3 month and that with study it completely all the day in those months , I have 2 month learned but all the day immerso and, already want to be fluid in the language with 2 or 1 hour in the day and it can speak in bit time is imposible .
to learn a leangue the laws are ,the law of pareto , immersion absolute , speak , think , watch , hear everything in inglish and in bit time you can have results
i actually learned native level Uzbek while doing a handstand in an hour using only my intuition so maybe you should know your place...
Clickbait and you baited me. But, I have to give it to you, it was a good try. Keep learning languages.
Are you Christian? I saw that you quoted some biblical passages at the beginning of the video
Yes, we are!
@@KateandNate24 oh, cool 🙌🏻👏🏻
Tu parles déjà mieux que certains natifs 😅
Salut ! Greetings from England. Love the clickbait title.
Learning French is much much harder than learning Spanish, and to learn conversational French which will help you get around France is, In My Humble (and Honest) Opinion, harder than learning German for a native English speaker.
Of course, as an American, you have the option of spending possibly several months in Quebec and trying to pick up a decent level of spoken French there.
When I heard in the video that you wanted to get to level A2 in 7 working days, I shrugged my shoulders and said "Whatever!"
C'etait tres interessante pour tout le monde a regarder ton video
Ha, yeah you’re right, French was very hard to learn! As I said in the video, this was really just a way to challenge myself and test how much I could possibly learn in a week only using Duolingo. I really did believe A2 was a possibility in 7 days, but unfortunately, only using this one resource proves that to be near impossible. So, maybe I was a bit too optimistic. Thanks for your feedback!
@@TheUnshelteredHomeschooler The main issue in the medium (say 3-6) years to long term is how much you will be able to remember a few years after you have done such a crash course. I think that the younger you are, probably the more you will remember, I'm speaking as someone who learned German from about 22-26 years of age to somewhere between a good B1 to hopefully a decent B2 level - but 30 years later I have forgotten a lot of the more nuanced and technical aspects of the language and I would need a good 6-18 months of 3-5 times a week substantial practice to be "confidently everyday level fluent" once again.
This is a good video. Don't let the clickbait complainers get to you. B.t.w. you're pretty brave for even trying this.
Have a blessed week ✨
Yeah right!
Give a break!
* So if you learned 700 words in a week, that would be 100 a day ,
ONE WORD EVERY 15 MINUTES....
M D R !!!!😂
No. You didn't. And, can't. Duolingo's error rate in French is over 30%.
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I'm subscriber number 244 from Egypt ❤
Why are you talking in English then?
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yeah long ago they were ok, but these days their dog water!! they've taken a lot of the good stuff out!!! Evan Edinger said it well thats its good, not great!!
i love your sense of humour and the overall vibe of your channel, subbed🤍
Thank you so much!!
You didn’t reach the a2 level but honestly you did amazing work and you put A LOT of effort in only seven days 🥹🩷
And the skit was so good 😭
That is so kind, thank you! ❤️