Oh just for basics then ... by Shivani Kumari on Openvy

Shivani27

Have you used duolingo to learn any new language ?

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How was it and which language ?

iTeachChem

Kaafi pointless tha. I tried it for German which I knew the basics of. Doesn’t teach you phrases you use in life but more structural stuff that you may learn in a course. Also makes it easy so you feel like you know stuff but you may not actually be able to use it in the country that actually uses the language natively for conversations or to follow what they are saying. For that, movies with subs help a lot more. I tried Russian and did manage to learn the alphabet mostly, so credit where credit is due!

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Shivani Kumari

Have you used duolingo to learn any new language ?

Tried it for Japanese. Lasted two weeks.

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oi

Learning Spanish for a while now. It teaches you words and a rough understanding of how to use it.

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Oindrila Sarkar

Learning Spanish for a while now. It teaches you words and a rough understanding of how to use it.

I guess it helps a lot more with languages that have evolved from Latin, because with others, that alone seems like a whole diff ball game. I

I'm just playing a guessing game when I graduate to Katakana from Hiragana! You ask me what I've learned, I'll stare back at you blankly. Can't do it without practice letter sheets, lol

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No one has mentioned the Unacademy product here so far?

sneha

I’m learning Japanese. It’s been 109 days. I can speak and understand basic sentences. I have learnt sentence structure and can read a bit as well. I am able to watch Midnight diner without subtitles. I try and can read one line Japanese captions.

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However, 4 years of Kdramas and I can understand the language. On my recent trip I was able to converse in both Japanese and Korean so that was a win.

I have super Duolingo (paid version) and am in Diamond league at the moment. After you’ve reached a certain level you have speaking test as well as this thing called Radio where you listen and answer questions which helps with learning.

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Himanshu Khanna

No one has mentioned the Unacademy product here so far?

Because it works diffidently 🙇🏻‍♀️ with Duolingo the format is quite simple which makes it less tedious, less like learning more like a game. Learning from unacademy is taking a course which doesn’t sound as fun to me. While when Duolingo Lily tells me to speak Japanese I say hai hai.

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Sneha Mehta

Because it works diffidently 🙇🏻‍♀️ with Duolingo the format is quite simple which makes it less tedious, less like learning more like a game. Learning from unacademy is taking a course which doesn’t sound as fun to me. While when Duolingo Lily tells me to speak Japanese I say hai hai.

Haven't they made a gamified product like Duolingo recently?

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Himanshu Khanna

Haven't they made a gamified product like Duolingo recently?

Haven’t heard. Maybe I missed it.

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Ashish Shekhar

Kaafi pointless tha. I tried it for German which I knew the basics of. Doesn’t teach you phrases you use in life but more structural stuff that you may learn in a course. Also makes it easy so you feel like you know stuff but you may not actually be able to use it in the country that actually uses the language natively for conversations or to follow what they are saying. For that, movies with subs help a lot more. I tried Russian and did manage to learn the alphabet mostly, so credit where credit is due!

Oh just for basics then but watching movies in that language is a very good idea to learn

Sneha Mehta

However, 4 years of Kdramas and I can understand the language. On my recent trip I was able to converse in both Japanese and Korean so that was a win.

That's amazing ✨ Movies do help then