Comment by 🗡️ The_Jackal
Re: "Abandoning Duolingo for Languatalk"
@bsj38381 I quit using memrise as soon as they demolished community courses and got rid of the one I was using for Norwegian.
Feb 04 · 3 months ago
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gotta learn like a baby, first listen a lot, then talk, and only when you can do that more or less well, optionally consider reading. Otherwise reading and especially translating gets in the way. It's like you store those word associations in a different kind of memory that's too slow for conversation. Then you also think in your native and try to translate, big mess. I'd love a course that treats you like a baby, like "here is a phrase you use to greet people", that's it, deal with it. Instead of "here is a phrase that translates to good day", and then go on to explain it actually literally is "kind day", but it's the same as english "good day" with caveats. Who cares!
@stack A ver qué tal te va con Languatalk. Espero que avances con más facilidad.
@The_Jackal That's a bummer, I mainly like using it because it doesn't have annoying things like the "three hearts" like duolingo has. I'll give Languatalk a try too.
Original Post
Abandoning Duolingo for Languatalk — I´ve built up a 700+-day streak on Duolingo. I also look up things I realize I don´t know on Google translate, and ask AIs to explain grammar and such, throughout the day. And sometimes practice spaced repetition on some random set of Spanish words. I´ve invested a lot of time and I cannot converse to save my life. I think it´s a common complaint about Duolingo, along with it´s infinite path to nowhere to make sure you keep paying. After all it is built by...