“You made a mistake? The best I can do I underline half of the sentence, but no guarantees on that. Why was that wrong? What? Do you expect me to explain that to you? Lol.”
And I had a premium subscription. I switched to Babbel, it’s like another world. Duolingo is underwhelming compared to alternatives.
Back when they started, they had a forum where people explained grammar etc which was very helpful. They closed the forum, gods know why.
Duolingo sucks so much, I won’t even recommend the paid version. It teaches you nothing, just trial and error over and over. You can probably watch YouTube in French for a year and will pick up the language faster than trying to do it with Duo.
Back when they started, they had a forum where people explained grammar etc which was very helpful. They closed the forum, gods know why.
I read that they’d introduced a subscription tier above Duolingo Super, although I’d never seen it on the web version. Nonetheless, people say that the app explains mistakes in this tier, or at least adds more context. If that’s true, it all makes perfect sense: people wouldn’t pay if the same information was available for free.
I went with Innovative Languages, in my case chineseclass101.com (they have one domain for each language, instead of the usual “courses” but it doesn’t matter, except if you want to learn multiple languages at once, then you’d pay double)
But just look up comparisons between different providers, maybe try their free or cancelable trials. The most important thing is, I think, having lots of somewhat “natural” dialoge with increasingly more and difficult vocabulary and you NEED those lessons where someone explains why words or grammar is used in a certain way, which Duolingo completely lacks. Sure, you can get it right by context and a lot of repetitions but this will take many more times than “immersing” yourself WITH some sort of guidance.
If you got the basics down and are at an A2-ish level, I would start watching and listening to a lot in your target language (Netflix, bilibili, podcasts), at this point you don’t really need more grammar lessons, just some refreshers, which you get from context, and soaking up vocabulary.
I just got another app. In my case Duolingo sucked trying to teach me a languagee.
It’s not like duolingo was trying to teach you.
“You made a mistake? The best I can do I underline half of the sentence, but no guarantees on that. Why was that wrong? What? Do you expect me to explain that to you? Lol.”
And I had a premium subscription. I switched to Babbel, it’s like another world. Duolingo is underwhelming compared to alternatives.
Back when they started, they had a forum where people explained grammar etc which was very helpful. They closed the forum, gods know why.
Duolingo sucks so much, I won’t even recommend the paid version. It teaches you nothing, just trial and error over and over. You can probably watch YouTube in French for a year and will pick up the language faster than trying to do it with Duo.
I read that they’d introduced a subscription tier above Duolingo Super, although I’d never seen it on the web version. Nonetheless, people say that the app explains mistakes in this tier, or at least adds more context. If that’s true, it all makes perfect sense: people wouldn’t pay if the same information was available for free.
which one?
The human one
I went with Innovative Languages, in my case chineseclass101.com (they have one domain for each language, instead of the usual “courses” but it doesn’t matter, except if you want to learn multiple languages at once, then you’d pay double)
But just look up comparisons between different providers, maybe try their free or cancelable trials. The most important thing is, I think, having lots of somewhat “natural” dialoge with increasingly more and difficult vocabulary and you NEED those lessons where someone explains why words or grammar is used in a certain way, which Duolingo completely lacks. Sure, you can get it right by context and a lot of repetitions but this will take many more times than “immersing” yourself WITH some sort of guidance.
If you got the basics down and are at an A2-ish level, I would start watching and listening to a lot in your target language (Netflix, bilibili, podcasts), at this point you don’t really need more grammar lessons, just some refreshers, which you get from context, and soaking up vocabulary.