With Duolingo, it could take months.For the uninitiated, Duolingo is a freemium app available for iOS and Android, as well as a stand-alone website designed to gamify language acquisition. With Anki or Memrise using SRS, A person can learn the top 500 words in about 10-15 days. When you know nothing about a language the first thing you should be doing is not trying to string together sentences but learning the most common and most basic words without distraction or the super slow video game methods that a lot of the apps try to employ. For the most part, all beginner apps are terrible compared to the tried and true SRS mass vocabulary intake in terms of speed and effectiveness at the beginner level.
That isn't to say that other apps are good. Its regarded as a poor resource, (as are many of the other beginner apps), because of the incredibly slow progress you make and where it caps out.īy the time you finish Duolingo, maybe months have passed and your vocabulary may be less than 500 words, your grammar is still A1, and your listening and speaking comprehension skills haven't been developed at all. That being said, I'm not yet fluent in any language other than English, so take my advice with a grain of salt.ĭuolingo is not touted as bad because there is some sort of disinformation campaign going on. Overall I'd say using Duolingo wouldn't hurt, it's a decent resource (and free!), but I would recommend using it for the basics of a language and for review, and moving on to other resources to actually pursue fluency with. I also write down new words in my notebook when I come across them. Duolingo is one of the resources I'm using for Swedish, but I mainly use it to learn new vocabulary and review some of the basics that I've already learned. If people just want to know the basics, and just do that for fun then I get that, but if you want to actually learn the language fluently you'll need to use it differently. If you're learning a romance or germanic language though, the courses can be pretty decent.Īlso, I don't think just using it for five minutes a day would be very productive. There are some courses that are better than others on Duolingo, and particularly the courses that do not use the Latin alphabet seem to be very lacking.
I think whether or not Duolingo is a good resource depends on the language you're learning as well as how you are using Duolingo.
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