631? That's amateur numbers!
You still have a month left, you can do better than that π
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At your current rate, you should have about 689 mistakes by the end of the year. If you practice more, I'm sure you can bring that number up..
You mean to tell me, You used Duolingo for more than 4 days?
Nah, they're just really bad at it
You god damn right
Does anyone pay for this? I'm getting deep enough into French now that I just last a few seconds before running out of hearts. At this rate I will be fluent by the year 3000
Even with premium you will not learn a language with Duolingo even if you spend an hour on it daily, but its a great getaway drug to really start learning one.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, but I'm cancelling in favor of the revanced version. I didn't use the premium features. The stats in the year end wrap-up indicate I make on average two mistakes a day. Maybe I should be pushing harder, but I don't spend that much time on it, only 7 minutes a day. And I'm still in the top 3% of XP earners somehow?
You can gain hearts back with "Practice to gain hearts". You're not moving forward with that but repeat old lessons. Paying is definitely not worth it for me.
You can actually get apps with all the premium features already enabled from Mobilism.
Would it be better or worse if they were all made on the same day?
Definely more sexy
Turns out, I spent 18h this year and made more than 1 mistake per minute ππ
40h and 1:3 min
Congratulations! Lets make during 2025 over 2000 mistakes!