Using Duolingo? (the horror!)

Japanese Language
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I went back to Duolingo recently to pick up Mandarin and so far am okay with it. Obviously, pronunciation is not going to be spot on and for that one has to listen to Chinese speakers, but to get that grind of hanzi going and learn how pin’yin translates to phonetics, it’s probably good enough. Speaking exercises are as always hit or miss - correct answers marked wrong, incorrect answers marked correct, etc.

The German course got a bit of a facelift and now there are reading comprehension exercises with short text snippets, but some of the sentences are not something any native German speaker would say. They sound very unnatural.

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你好。我也学习汉文。

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你好。but I am not that advanced yet. Just started section 2 yesterday. Stuff like 我叫iinchou. :sweat_smile:

But it does stay in my head for now.

I’m using the app a lot more and doing quite well with German. Also tried the Japanese course again. Had to report every second sentence because it’s either grammatically wrong or the translation is bad.

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I’m double-posting since I think it’s worth it. After grinding Duolingo for a while I decided to give Memrise a try and I have to say it’s night and day better than Duolingo. The addition of actual native speakers and a proper explanation of each word/phrase makes a world of a difference.

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I found Duolingo really rubbish for Japanese. However, it’s not bad for some other languages. I found it great for Danish.

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Duolingo is pretty repetitive, but useful for learning kanji stroke order. But I’m only working on WaniKani level 5 now, so what do I know?

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i found it way too repetitive! it was really boring ._.

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I am still learning French. I started learning French before I started learning Japanese. I don’t want to give up learning French.

I am learning several other languages as well and I choose to do that as well as I don’t want to give up what I have already learned in them.

Duolingo is better in French than Japanese.

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I gave up French and am learning Italian. Next I’m going to see how to get adopted by an Italian nonna who can cook for me everyday.

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Italian food seems more delicious than French. I don’t blame you on your goal of getting an Italian nonna who can cook for you every day.

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You can choose French from a Japanese interface.
In order to enforce the article and plurality in French, the Japanese is super bizarre, with over use of 1-counter, like 1匹の猫 (you have to type “un chat”)

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You mean in Duolingo? I looked up in Duolingo and there is no Japanese language in the French language.

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I use it, too (day 886, yeeyy!). But I think since they deleted the comment section on each bit, it got worse. It was a nice source of background information or explanation, if you didn’t quite understood the phares you just had. BUT, since a couple of months they have speaking exercises, which I really like. It’s the only way I practice speaking a bit.

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The other way: learning french for Japanese people.

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それはありがとう
merci pour ça

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I finished 3/4 of the post 2023 Duolingo Japanese. The Duolingo AI voice chat was released for Android phones today where I’m at, and I’m having fun just chatting about random stuff with it (the Duolingo Max subscription is really cheap here, only $30 per year)

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