The first claim is clearly a lie, and the second one might be too, for all I know.ĭuolingo has taken boring language textbooks with methods that don’t work very well and turned them into computer games that still don’t help you learn a language very well. The site claims that “you can learn a language in five minutes a day.” It also claims that the lessons have 25 million monthly users. “I am a duck who speaks English.” Not very practical.ĭuolingo is a language learning website and app. If you are a beginner or lower intermediate and are looking for something more time-efficient, I suggest clicking on the flag of the language you want to learn below and try a more time efficient lesson right now. Will Duolingo Work for Me?ĭuolingos’s methods can work, but you’ll need to spend a lot of time on it, just like you would with your old Spanish textbook from high school. I’ll also tell you about the time when foreign language teachers were imprisoned in America for four years, simply because they were language teachers. If you don’t believe me, read the footnotes. But every claim has been carefully proven from highly credible sources. In the review below, you will read some things that seem unbelievable at first. The Most Carefully Researched Duolingo Review I’ll speculate on who is really paying for Duolingo if you aren’t. I will cover alternatives that will be better for some language learners. I will explain why you might not want to learn Spanish with a program that thinks you should study phrases like, “I am a duck who speaks English.” That’s my favorite funny phrase from the Duolingo Spanish program, but funny is not the same as useful. Why? Because after about two weeks of studying for five minutes per day, the amount of your language that you learn every day will be the same as the amount that you forget every day, and you won’t be making any progress. In this review, I will show you why you will NOT learn a language in just five minutes a day with Duolingo. You probably are here because you want to know what other people think of Duolingo.Ĭan you really “learn a language for free in just five minutes a day” with Duolingo as they claim? Summary of This Review: This is the friendly Duo owl from Duolingo.
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