Everything works. The question is how well it works compared to what (opportunity cost).
Soon you will start to find "Duolingo wrapped" posts on Twitter, and you will see that top 1% of active users spend ~5 mins / day avg. and learn a few hundred words.
Considering that to reach fluency you need around 8k words and 700-1000 hours of study + practice (depending on language, and assuming good mindset, methods, teachers and resources), I'd say that Duolingo does not work at all.
Duolingo is not for people that wants to learn a language, it is for people that wants to want to learn a language.
Duolingo is not for people that wants to learn a language, it is for people that wants to want to learn a language.
I disagree. I would rather say that Duolingo is not a silver bullet for lazy people who want to easily learn a language. However, it's a great tool. Like any tool, you may or may not like it, but that doesn't make it useless for everybody else.
Learning a language is just hard. The more you practice, the better. Find tools that you like, and put effort into it.
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Everything works. The question is how well it works compared to what (opportunity cost).
Soon you will start to find "Duolingo wrapped" posts on Twitter, and you will see that top 1% of active users spend ~5 mins / day avg. and learn a few hundred words.
Considering that to reach fluency you need around 8k words and 700-1000 hours of study + practice (depending on language, and assuming good mindset, methods, teachers and resources), I'd say that Duolingo does not work at all.
Duolingo is not for people that wants to learn a language, it is for people that wants to want to learn a language.
I disagree. I would rather say that Duolingo is not a silver bullet for lazy people who want to easily learn a language. However, it's a great tool. Like any tool, you may or may not like it, but that doesn't make it useless for everybody else.
Learning a language is just hard. The more you practice, the better. Find tools that you like, and put effort into it.
PS: the 700-1000 hours figure comes from https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/1...
Everyone quotes the FSI estimate, but I find this one much more generalizable.