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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-11-15 03:33 pm

[ SECRET POST #2874 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2874 ⌋

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Re: Duolingo?

(Anonymous) 2014-11-16 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
I quite like it. I first tried it out to brush up on my Italian (which I'd let lapse for several years without practice) and actually found its structure a lot more intuitive than the textbooks I used back in the day. The amount of varied interaction helps a lot -- you either have to translate from/into the language, choose the correct audio, practice pronunciation etc. so you're practicing a lot of different skills.

I'm not sure about the German version, but it'd take a while until you could use it for anything helpfully conversational though. A lot of the early stuff seems more about getting the basics of e.g. sentence structure and all the various gendered words down (again, not sure whether German would be as heavy on that as Italian).

Nice interface too, nothing too annoying.

I'd also second Livemocha as a really helpful platform, because it allows your mini-assignments to be graded by actual native speakers which is always useful if you aren't around native speakers a lot.

Re: Duolingo?

(Anonymous) 2014-11-16 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the other link!