Duolingo

[redbird]

I am studying French using Duolingo, as of yesterday. I'm starting at the very beginning, because part of what I need is to listen to them pronouncing the language.

Right now, the gamification feels a bit silly. But I started last night with the smallest possible daily goal, and did a lot more than that today (for values of "a lot" that took maybe 20 minutes), and the software is designed to congratulate the user for things like having a one-day streak of doing something every day.

I decided I wanted to do this at the end of last year, but deliberately waited until after I finished the freelance indexing project.

Comments

[minnehaha]

As someone who has language-learning skills (and I believe you do also), I found Duolingo impossibly slow.

K.

[redbird]

I used to have language-learning skills, but they're at best rusty.

At the moment, I am deliberately starting slowly, because much of what I need is to hear the words pronounced often enough to remember correct French pronunciation rather than what the pronunciation "looks like" it should be based on English or Spanish.