Definitely just thickly accented English. Sounds like Appalachian to me.

Offcourse Duolingo is work If you're trying to have a conversation with sentient AI

With the example you showed about "min broder" and "min bröder" is quite hilarious of the difference, if we also disregard the grammatical error (min/mina)

Wish lingopie had Greek

In dutch it gets me to say "sorry i am and apple" and "you are not an apple" quite funny

Currently there is no free version of Lingvist either, they killed it. Now you have 14 day trial, and that's it, you either cancel it or will be billed for full year. They specifically count on people forgetting to cancel and paying automatically, which is a dark pattern and very nefarious. Also 80 eur per year is still a lot, not cheap by any means.

This entire video is totes basketballer. Also, I can’t help but want to meet the child of Jane Eyre and time traveler Shakespeare, it sounds like a Doctor Who episode.

I would not have used Evan's video in this way. You could have made the point about Duolingo without dragging him into it. When I was young I had fewer responsibilities and could live for a year in a foreign country using my target language. It was great and I learned so much. Now I am a parent with a lot more responsibilities towards my kid and my aging parents. Duolingo works good enough when I just want to keep the language going.

What are your thoughts (if any) on the Assimil book series? Seeing as they incorporate comprehensive input from the start

Watching your video, I conclude that for native English speakers is more dificulte to learn Latin language. But for us, is more easily. I speak Portuguese and I understand Spanish very well. And I’m learning Italian in Duolingo e it really helping me, because a lot of words is similar to my native language. But if I’m going to try German it will be too hard for me. That’s what I think. We don’t have to use just one tool. But a lot of tools that can improve. Sorry about my English. But I think you can understand my point. 😊

Very insightful video, thank you. I read a good book recently, I think it was called ‘Fluent in 3 Months’ which makes some of the same points you make. Nice job. 👍

Why is their a star next to the Pirates logo on your hat?

Wow, finally a reason to watch Pulp Fiction again not just to waste time. Small tip for those who learn German -- Kurzgesagt is narrated in German too. Different channel.

Bro is gojo satoru he has power of six eyes

Bronse and going for silver which i joined like 5 secs after it reset 6th day in duolingo so far i have nothing else to do my computer broke

Me learning German right now, is literally Anki and "Easy German" After 2 weeks I have already started to see progress in my German classes

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I need someone help me because I don't understand how I should get from reading a nearly unfamiliar language to try and translate the text i read, at which point do I learn the vocabulary?

I use Duolingo for revising my lost languages (Chinese) and for beginners to new languages (Japanese, French). Its not perfect but great for beginners and refreshers. I don’t think it’s the ONLY app. You still need to talk, go to classes, etc. duolingo is there to compliment to practice

In my opinion, duolingo is an ok learning app, but some things are boring, especially the graphics. Why in duolingo creators didn't add an explanation of grammar, it would make learning every language easier. They should work on that app more than on useless shorts like having a surgery to get BBL

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Remember, for most of us, learning a new language is a process rather than a goal, so enjoy the journey 😃.

Step 1: Select a language you are interested in learning. Step 2: Find a variety of audio visual material and books and apps to help you learn. Step 3: Stick at learning in a more or less systematic way for an hour or so each day. Step 4: Keep this hard work up for the next year and try to speak with native speakers on a platform or in the target language country. Step 5: Take an official language course with the aim to sit an exam in the CEFR. Probably B1. Step 6: Master B1 well enough to proceed. Step 7: set a goal of passing B2 at the end of year two. That's at least 800 hours and by this time you should be able to speak in the target language without the need to resort to your native language, but the conversation will not be as smooth as you'd like it to be. Step 8: Set a goal of achieving C1 level in the target language. Here you'd want to read and listen a lot in your target language. You'll be consuming native content by this time. So, three years from nothing to being able to qualify to study at university if that's your goal.

I average a score of about 300 points a day on my own learning a single language. It took 210 days to complete the course in German

So, it's down to winning rather than learning?

I used Duolingo religiously during the pandemic to learn a variety of languages, predominantly Scandinavian or Slavic languages. I was once an avid Duolingo user, and Evan’s videos convinced me to continue using it. I agree that it is a gateway into language learning, and teaches some basic vocabulary, but that is it in my opinion. For Slavic languages (ex. Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian), the app separates the cases, which is good, but does not teach you adequately the specific case endings for adjectives and nouns regarding their gender (masculine, feminine, neutral), or when to use each case. You need to know how to use the cases in order to converse with ease. In my experience, it becomes very demotivating to lose hearts on a concept the app never taught you. I mean, the app is basically asking casual language learners to find and memorize the intricacies of difficult linguistic patterns. The lack of teaching linguistic patterns only becomes more of a headache in regards to Celtic languages (which I love), because of the inflection. For Scandinavian languages, there is the benefit of not having to teach cases. I predominantly studied Norwegian during the pandemic and occasionally studied Danish or Swedish. I now predominantly study Swedish. While the vocabulary is relatively relevant, I have found Lingvist to be such a faster method of learning Swedish, and through only a short time of using that app, I was able to start reading “Harry Potter och Hemligheternas Kammare” in Swedish. Is it difficult and draining? Yes. But I learn so much, and much faster, than Duolingo could teach.

She is so cute and cool ♥

Duolingo feels exactly like a really bad MMORPG, same skinner boxes, all day, every day.

I loved that video and am using some of the ideas I got from that video right now. P.S. I never studied English I just unconsciously learned it while watching gameplay so there's that, listening even not paying attention to the words that are being said is like a 'brute force' method to learning languages...the nice thing is that it is almost 'passive' and if you really want to put more effort in it just paying attention and trying to distinguish the words even if you don't know their meaning ...well, that is going to boost the learning progression to lightspeed.

I got to the end of the Duolingo German course from scratch in 213 days and scored about 320 points a day. It was pretty reperative and I used to jump to the end of a unit within a section when it got too boring. I did find it improved my accuracy and taught me a few words, but I wouldn't recommend it as a primary language learning tool, as it's fairly incomplete as a langage learning app. Busuu is better. I completed that course too and it's far less repetitive and more interesting. After completing the Duolingo course, I did find that the daily exercises on Duolingo were far less repeative and far more interesting and at a level slightly higher than the course itself.

17:01 Anyone else mishear him saying "bitch accent"?

I have a question, i am currently learning Korean and I've watched videos by Steve Kaufman as well as browsed reddit but they said incomprehensible input does nothing. Is that true?

Duolingo added kanji lessons for Japanese in the last year. That's legitimately better. You will *never* become fluent using it, but I have found it useful for not forgetting everything when I got busy and a bit burned out for a year a while back.

I get what you're saying but on the other hand it Duo does get people to start that journey of language learning and I would say the people out there that are serious about learning know that this is just something to mess with on the side much like a kid would play a video game in their spare time.

I've jumped from latin, to russian, to french in duo 305 days streak, and i agree with you. I barely feel confident to watch a show on french, imagine really solving problems and real life situations when you get pressured to talk right. Duo is a game, something to kill time, when it comes to becoming fluent you need a whole other aproach on the language

Got books in Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Tamil, Hindi, Arabic, Mandarin, Hebrew, Welsh, Yoruba, Chechen, etc. given the fact that I can’t even read in 8 of the aforementioned languages. Why? Well, go ask goddam bees what they need their gallons of honey for🥸🐝🍯

"She has no milk"

I think your son sounding like David Tennant has to be the cutest thing ever!

Well if Duolingo turned into, him going to Deutschland, then I'd say, yes it works. Right? Plus its free, and right at your fingertips. You can play at ANYTIME. And I honestly wouldn't write down everything I hear outside of Duolingo to add to my arsenal like I do, if it weren't for Duolingo. I stand with you. See it as a pillar to your target language, rather than a "end all be all" (think I said that correctly)

At your title: I'm feeling attacked😢 Ich spiele schach manchmal zu

Thanks

Love the Sox hat! You a fan? :)

Can you explain what you mean by "activities that can speed up comprehension ... can be useful but only in the context of aiding the core exercise"? Would this refer to looking up a specific grammer rule, or more like writing down and making lists of unfamiliar vocab? If i dont understand the grammer much at all, everything seems like it's aiding the core exercise, but I also dont want to get sidetracked looking up grammer to try and comprehend, if that goes against the whole point of it being intuitive

Is that Mr Salas!? :0 Me gustaria probar eso también, pero no sé si podría ver una película tantas veces... Tal vez sí, Steven Universe

"There is a ghost in the sugar" is an italian classic 😂

The cat reads - Portuguese

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Please do a review of pimsleur! Do you have any immediate thoughts on it?

My mom just hit a 700 days strike about a week ago and she still can't keep a simple conversation in English. If that doesn't show how ineffective the app is I don't know what will