Do you use Duolingo (or any kind of language learning app)

[Hollywood.]

Curious if anyone is using Duolingo or any other language learning app to learn a new language?

 

If so what language(s) are you learning? 

 

[Escape]

Yes, I've been using Duolingo for a while now.

I'm only learning Japanese with it at the moment. I just hit 50 day streak yesterday.

[Vixen Eyes]

No but i can just ask almost any of my coworkers or my brother in law for any Spanish

[50thStateofMind]

yes, Japanese.

[Virgos Groove]

Yes, I use Duolingo to learn French.

[oceans]

ouais, et je sais le francaise merci a qui

 

[Dante]

Yes Duolingo for German, year and a half or so.

 

It's okay to repeat some words, vocabulary, but certainly not enough to learn a language.

[Hollywood.]

Personally I've been using it to practice Chinese/Mandarin. I also use Lingodeer for Thai. 

[Khal]

Yes, Duolingo. I've been using it to learn a bit of German and mostly Spanish. Sadly, it's gotten worse in the past year and I'm looking for alternatives (that are free)  

[Bonicap]

I find Duolingo, at least the free version, useless. You learn something but quickly hit the ceiling.

[SupremeGoddess]

Learning language through apps to me is useless, I rather use books where I can highlight and write and take my pace and then use movie subtitles to really immerse otherwise it won't go anywhere

[Illuminati]

I've been using duolingo daily for nearly 400 days now, for my Spanish classes but I admit past a certain point I've only started doing the bare minimum to keep the streak

 

It's going slow but at the same time I feel like it makes me memorize words better when I'm not just flying through lessons

Edited 2 hours ago by Illuminati

[Hollywood.]

I certainly agree these apps alone aren't sufficient to fully learn a language, but I find they are a good supplement that help you practice. I do find on Duolingo at least there's an odd competitive spirit to win the leagues rather than actually learning.

[Princess Aurora]

Yes, I'm currently using it for Spanish, Swedish, and Norwegian 

[Hector]

Yes,  it makes me feel radically optimistic. 

[vuelve88]

I like her songs. Levitating is one of my favorites. 

[50thStateofMind]

58 minutes ago, 50thStateofMind said:

yes, Japanese.

It's been very helpful, but mainly because I studied Japanese in HS and college....without that background, I don't think DuoLingo is that great for actual language learning...

[NoOneDiesFromLove]

Used Duolingo for German (gave that one up), French and now I'm doing Italian. 1600+ day streak

 

From experience I can say Duolingo is only useful for an introductory course to grammar and basic vocabulary, it is no good on its own. That means, if you're serious about learning any language fluently, combining it with other apps, self study books, in-person classes, etc is essential. 

1 hour ago, Khal said:

Yes, Duolingo. I've been using it to learn a bit of German and mostly Spanish. Sadly, it's gotten worse in the past year and I'm looking for alternatives (that are free)  

I use Busuu as well. A lot of ads but they teach you idiomatic phrases, curse words, sentences that you're actually gonna use, videos with real humans pronouncing the words (although recently they've started to include AI generated videos as well ). 
 

memrise is similar but I don't like it as much. LingQ is good for language immersion although I don't really use it that much. All have free plans

[Contessa]

I personally only use DuaLipa

[CBC]

yes, today is my 1440 day streak 

[Reginald]

1653 day streak in Spanish I've learned a lot, along with independent study, but the "gamification" of the app over the years has felt demotivating, in a way. Sometimes it feels like I'm just logging in to maintain a streak, not to learn