Duolingo - what are you learning?

[anonymous-user]

Day number 867 on my streak. Learning Romanian. Still not at a decent level, there is a marked improvement on nothing.


What are you learning and do you have a streak?

Finding it hard?

[smithyithy]

180-ish day streak on Russian, paused that about a week ago and started Ukrainian.

I'll still jump in and out of Russian as it's a language I always wanted to learn regardless of recent events...

But I wanted to pick up some basic Ukrainian in the meantime in the off-chance I meet some folks from there in the coming months.

[anonymous-user]

It's hard keeping the language up.

Russian and Ukrainian must be challenging.

[smithyithy]

Russian has been very enjoyable to be fair, the alphabet was a challenge but now I'm comfortable with that, learning basic phrases etc is a bit easier.. I've still got a long way to go though.

With Ukrainian, I expected it to be similar to Russian so easy to switch to - there are some similarities but it's not as closely related as I thought (naively) but I'll definitely stick with it

[Mopey]

I recently came across this app. so just a week in. Learning Arabic. Reading right to left and all the new sounds and shapes is good fun so far.

[Esceptico]

Coming up to 200 days. Learning Norwegian. I think another month and I will have reached Legendary for the eight levels.

There is a huge difference in quality between the languages offered on Duolingo. Norwegian not great as no Tips (ie Grammar). Fortunately Norwegian is easy if you know English and German. But other languages such as Korean and Hindi have no grammar and they are definitely not straightforward for English speakers.

[Esceptico]

Mr Spoon said:

Day number 867 on my streak. Learning Romanian. Still not at a decent level, there is a marked improvement on nothing.


What are you learning and do you have a streak?

Finding it hard?

A friend told me he is thinking of learning Romanian (because girlfriend). What do you think of the DL course? Enough by itself or have you been using other sources?

[Badvok]

110 days on French. Still making silly verb mistakes

[anonymous-user]

Esceptico said:

Mr Spoon said:

Day number 867 on my streak. Learning Romanian. Still not at a decent level, there is a marked improvement on nothing.


What are you learning and do you have a streak?

Finding it hard?

A friend told me he is thinking of learning Romanian (because girlfriend). What do you think of the DL course? Enough by itself or have you been using other sources?

Mrs spoon is Romanian. Even with the time I've been trying to learn, I still know only pigeon Romanian.

I'm unable to speak with the mother and father in law.

[Esceptico]

Mr Spoon said:

Esceptico said:

Mr Spoon said:

Day number 867 on my streak. Learning Romanian. Still not at a decent level, there is a marked improvement on nothing.


What are you learning and do you have a streak?

Finding it hard?

A friend told me he is thinking of learning Romanian (because girlfriend). What do you think of the DL course? Enough by itself or have you been using other sources?

I'm unable to speak with the mother and father in law.

Mmmm…based on my experience of inlaws…could be bonus!

[Jamescrs]

Day 48 on German for me.

It just so happened I was sat on a bus yesterday behind a group of four German students and realised I understood barely anything of what they said but I do know a lot more than I did 48 days ago.

[RizzoTheRat]

I was on a streak of around 200 days learning Dutch when I forgot one day and lost my streak (having forgotten I'd already forgotten a day a few days earlier and forgotten to renew my streak freeze) ...which then meant I lost impetus and stopped doing it for ages. Gave it another go a while back and found I'd forgotten stuff it clearly thought I should know already which was frustrating.

If you're sensing a theme in the above you'd be right.

Tempted to give Babbel a go as there's a few discount links floating about.

[Yuxi]

Day 78 learning Chinese, I also have 2 one hour lessons a week, they compliment each other

[KAgantua]

Been over 3 years on Spanish. At level 3 now. I only do an hour and a half a week but planning to ramp it up after the bulding works are finished.

Also started the Frenceh branch and Portuguese. Plan to re-learn French (Did it at school, but forgotten most of it) after nailing Spanish.

Its a good app!

[The Hypno-Toad]

66 days doing Spanish.

Got to say it is more fun than I thought especially as I hated languages at school. Quite enjoying it.

[crusty]

I have only just started Spanish (15 days)

Does it work? I would like to be able to have a bit of a conversation with a Spanish person by December.

Is that realistic?

[Louis Balfour]

Mr Spoon said:

Day number 867 on my streak. Learning Romanian. Still not at a decent level, there is a marked improvement on nothing.


What are you learning and do you have a streak?

Finding it hard?

I did about 2.5 years Italian.

I gave up, because it was too repetitive and when I used other resources it became clear that in reality I had learned very little.

Now I listen to Italian news live and try to absorb as much vocabulary as possible from online resources.

[LordHaveMurci]

Louis Balfour said:

I did about 2.5 years Italian.

I gave up, because it was too repetitive and when I used other resources it became clear that in reality I had learned very little.

Now I listen to Italian news live and try to absorb as much vocabulary as possible from online resources.

I did 6-8mths of Italian, got bored & gave up. Felt like I hadn’t really learned anything useful in that time.

[RizzoTheRat]

crusty said:

I have only just started Spanish (15 days)

Does it work? I would like to be able to have a bit of a conversation with a Spanish person by December.

Is that realistic?

I'd say no. It gives you an understanding of the language, but you need more to make get to a conversational level. Combining it with some other apps, eg Drops is good to learn more vocabulary, helps, but still doesn't cover everything. As above news broadcasts can help, but kids TV also worth a look. Sounds silly but Peppa Pig is available on youtube dubbed in to every language you can think of.

[tr7v8]

Day 636 on DL French. I have learnt some, but I've never been great at languages so I don't expect to be fantastic. Some has sunk in so I'll keep going.