So for Irish for instance, even native speakers are lost sometimes, because the recorded voices and the vocabulary or phrases are from several places. Now doing duolingo after a normal lesson done elsewhere, is still useful.Īlso, some languages have a zillions dialects. The lack of grammar lessons and explanations, although a lot can be found in the comments thanks to users, is really an issue. Now if you are learning irish from french, omg. If you are using duolingo for a language close to yours (spanish course for a french user) you can go super fast super far. Here's to another year of learning and progressing in my journey and hoping that others find Duolingo just as useful as I have so it sticks around for me to keep learning this and maybe even more languages in the future. In conjunction with other resources, it's a great tool however. Alone it will never get you to where most people would like to be when learning another language. Would I recommend Duolingo to learn Spanish? Yes and no. My vocabulary and understanding of the language has grown enough that I feel comfortable that I can "get by" when traveling even if I'm the only one who speaks English in a Spanish speaking country (so long as I encounter patient people willing to work with me/talk slowly). I don't have the basics down 100% at this point, but I can grasp them and know some of the intermediate level knowledge. Duolingo isn't going to get anyone "fluent", but it provides a wonderful base knowledge level for the language and does a great job at teaching words and helping you to retain them through the repetition built-in to the progression/use of the app.īased on online tests, I'm not at an A2/B1 level in Spanish.
The question that most new people likely have is "are you fluent yet?" and that answer is a resounding no. I've also used some Youtube channels/programs sporadically and listen to Spanish music for an hour or two each week. I'd estimate I've probably done 60-70 lessons so far. For the past 10 months I've also been taking online lessons with an instructor from Mexico, generally twice a week but there have been a number of weeks where that wasn't possible). I currently have 423 crowns completed (of ~7xx total), and have done the entire tree to at least level 1. Yesterday was day 365 of learning Spanish for me on Duolingo.
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