I have a 1,360 day streak of learning Japanese on DuoLingo, 5 minutes every day. I’m at the point that I can read Kindergarten books, albeit slowly. I figure another 3 years and I should be able to read manga.
A colleague of mine swears by immersion, like you mentioned. She lived in Japan for 5 years and knew none beforehand, and was more or less fluent by the time she left.
Honestly, DuoLingo is one of the slowest and shittiest ways to learn a language. I think it’s a great supplement to a language learning routine, and a nice method to keep your habits going, but it’s borderline useless by itself…
Honestly it’s just become part of my morning routine and helps jump start my brain for the day. Learning new things is fun even if it’s not the most strategic approach to becoming fluent in a language.
I have a 1,360 day streak of learning Japanese on DuoLingo, 5 minutes every day. I’m at the point that I can read Kindergarten books, albeit slowly. I figure another 3 years and I should be able to read manga.
A colleague of mine swears by immersion, like you mentioned. She lived in Japan for 5 years and knew none beforehand, and was more or less fluent by the time she left.
Honestly, DuoLingo is one of the slowest and shittiest ways to learn a language. I think it’s a great supplement to a language learning routine, and a nice method to keep your habits going, but it’s borderline useless by itself…
Honestly it’s just become part of my morning routine and helps jump start my brain for the day. Learning new things is fun even if it’s not the most strategic approach to becoming fluent in a language.