But if it’s just for fun, and you don’t seriously expect to reach fluidity, I think Duo is probably not bad for that. And that’s not a bad thing, learning a language is a huge commitment. If you want more, you’d need someone willing to go one on one with you or you could continue with more traditional methods until you reach the point of being able to follow at least shows for small children like Peppa Pig and eventually onto actually interesting stuff.
The best course of action is to consume as much content in the target language as possible, tv shows, music, YouTube videos…
Your brain will eventually pick up on certain parts of the language naturally.
Also the best thing you can do is to not force yourself to speak or write in that language until you are comfortable doing so (this is one of the biggest things doulingo does wrong).
I can attest to this method working as I went from barely knowing a couple of English words to speaking it in about 4 months (you could probably do less if you stick to what I outlined above).
To back up this method I suggest you look at antimoon which is written by people who have used this to learn English as well.
is there a better app?
i’m not really in a situation where i can live among natives until i have the basics down
real in-person courses are also nothing i wanna do right now 😅
What language are you learning?
türkish, just for fun little interactions with my döner-guy 🥙🙂
I love everything about this
And now I want a Berlin kebab
See my other comment: https://thelemmy.club/comment/6489647
For Turkish unfortunately there isn’t a lot of beginner resources. But some are trying to build some currently. https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Turkish
But if it’s just for fun, and you don’t seriously expect to reach fluidity, I think Duo is probably not bad for that. And that’s not a bad thing, learning a language is a huge commitment. If you want more, you’d need someone willing to go one on one with you or you could continue with more traditional methods until you reach the point of being able to follow at least shows for small children like Peppa Pig and eventually onto actually interesting stuff.
The best course of action is to consume as much content in the target language as possible, tv shows, music, YouTube videos… Your brain will eventually pick up on certain parts of the language naturally. Also the best thing you can do is to not force yourself to speak or write in that language until you are comfortable doing so (this is one of the biggest things doulingo does wrong).
I can attest to this method working as I went from barely knowing a couple of English words to speaking it in about 4 months (you could probably do less if you stick to what I outlined above). To back up this method I suggest you look at antimoon which is written by people who have used this to learn English as well.