Has anyone had success with DuoLingo? Traveling to France in about 6 months for an extended trip and I’d like to bone up a little

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Pimsleur is a much better method in my experience.

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Right! Because with Pimsleur, you listen and repeat, which is how we learn to speak as children… naturally the easiest way to learn. Duolingo is a fun app game it seems, multiple choice quizzes etc.

I’m using it now for French. About 2 months and I feel like I could navigate my way around a little better than I could have but not fluent at all. I did start from step 1 and only spend 10 minutes a day on it though.

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It’s not bad, but it doesn’t follow logically in my opinion. The way you should learn a language is base understanding (dog, cat, jump, etc.) and then focus on how to speak (conjugation, tenses, etc.) and they you buff out your vocab. Last time I used Duolingo it was just all more and more vocabulary, so I knew a lot of words but couldn’t use them in different situations (other than base form)

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Agree - conjugations aren’t explained well at all so that is my biggest gripe.

Babbel and duo lingo both help sharpen but good to supplement with another source for grammar, conjugation, etc

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Learn to speak first, write correctly second.

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I’ve learned German using it. It’s very interactive and as long as you practice a little bit each day, you’ll be good

I used it for Spanish for visiting Spain (my SO was using it as a refresher from high school Spanish) and to refresh myself in Italian (I already knew some) to go to Italy. It helped tremendously in Madrid and I remember being complimented a lot for my Italian in the Amalfi Coast. So I’d say it works!

I prefer Rosetta Stone.

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