Duolingo sucks at teaching a language and is only good for pushing ads, amirite?

No it's as if a textbook was written in the language you're trying to learn, it's useless without context

by Anonymous 5 hours ago

OP spent 10 minutes a day for year so.... 60 hrs and thinks he should be ordering a spatzle and wooing women at Octoberfest like a native.

by Anonymous 5 hours ago

No but I should be able to like, order food or ask for directions or things like that at least. But it doesn't touch you how sentences are made so unless you want the specific food the example sentences use you'll get it all wrong with the gender and whatnot

by Anonymous 4 hours ago

If you're just memorizing the sentences you're doing it wrong. Also you've spent half the time as a German one class spread over three times the length. It's like running for 10 minutes a day then complaining you can't do a 10k. Like ya.

by Anonymous 4 hours ago

Many things to unpack here, but a quick summary would be: you're complaining about three completely different problems at once and it makes no sense because of that. 1st, Duolingo does teach, but it's never "an app that makes you good at a language from knowing nothing". It's something you should use along with a proper lesson plan/mentor to practice your knowledge. 2nd, it's an app with tons of IAP, of course it would shove ads into your face and limit your benefit. and 3rd, I couldn't string actual useful sentences together This is definitely an you problem man. And hey this isn't even an unpopular opinion, people have been boycotting the green owl for months.

by Kuphalcecil 4 hours ago

My point is that instead of teaching you how the language works it gets you to memorise specific sentences where if you need anything slightly different than what that sentence is it wont work for you. Like if you're taught 'I like cats' but you want to say 'I like dogs' there's no way for you to know how to say that because you were never taught about genders

by Anonymous 4 hours ago

isn't duolingo specifically designed so that the sentences are weird enough so that you specifically learn how to build sentences rather than just rote memorise something?

by Dry_Judgment5969 3 hours ago

they might not directly rteach you, but you're supposed to try figure it out and duolingo was never supposed to be the sole way to learn a language.

by Dry_Judgment5969 3 hours ago

But it does teach you about genders? If you use the wrong article for a given noun, for example, you'll get the question wrong.

by Anonymous 3 hours ago

bitesize chunks are equal semester or lesson to you? this conversation ends here man.

by Kuphalcecil 3 hours ago

The company said this, not me

by Anonymous 2 hours ago

Duolingo is decent for vocab and practice but it doesnt really teach grammar or conversation. If you want to actually build skills pairing it with a textbook, tutor,or real conversation practice works way better

by Anonymous 2 hours ago

If you want to learn a language spend 3 months in the country that speaks it.

by MissionPain 2 hours ago

I'm currently on a 460 day streak and today is the day I'm finally quitting Duolingo. It started out as a fun activity but it's become such a drag

by Anonymous 2 hours ago