If you are a language learner and have never heard of Duolingo, then you must be living under a rock. Duolingo is a website/ app that teaches you a new language via sentences. The Spanish course has approximately 20 million active Spanish learners. The French course alone has approximately 10 million learners. Not to mention that there are 32 languages to learn from.
I personally have been using it to learn Italian. To be fully honest with you I started using Duolingo in Freshmen year of high school. I used it for less than a year but it was ineffective for me since I never took it very seriously and just wanted to complete the tree. Plus when I started it it was 2014 and the Duolingo app and website teaching methods were not well.
After that, I used it every now in then throughout high school and because of that, it was also ineffective during the last three years of high school. They did make some changes when I was in high school but they weren’t very good.
During my Freshmen year of college, I took an Italian course. I passed that class with a B and still did not understand the Italian language very well. It wasn’t until the summer after my freshmen year that I got back on Duolingo. By then they had updated it more to my way of learning and I was finally able to understand Italian even more than in my college Italian class. I was so proud of myself.
I continued to use Duolingo to learn Italian during my sophomore year and until now. During my sophomore year is when I would say that I managed to get the basics of the Italian language down. After all those years I could finally start to learn it at a more advanced level.
Now I will continue to use Duolingo to finally finish and turn the whole Italian tree gold. I hope to also continue the very few lessons I have completed in French. I am very excited because I can finally speak at a level at which Italian speaks could manage to understand.
My recommendation to you is to at least give it a try. Don’t make my initial mistake by just completing one lesson a day. Complete around 5 to 10 lessons a day over the course of a month. After doing this you will be able to tell if Duolingo truly works for you. Trust me a majority of you just like the millions already using Duolingo will like its way of teaching a new language.
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