Fun way to learn a second language

[Giuseppe Hardblast]

I found this app and it's suuuper fun. I've been learning Spanish because I have an upcoming trip to Columbia. It's so much fun. I learned 200 words in the last 2 weeks. They email you a weekly report card. They say 3 weeks using this app is,like a semester in school. Oh yea. And it's free.

Giuseppe Hardblast es un hombre. El es Mucho intelligente y elegante. Yo queiro Un hamburguesa con queso, Sal, y tomate, por favor. Sin ensalada. Yo quiero una mujer demasiado.

Learn a language with me for free! Duolingo is fun, and proven to work. Here’s my invite link: https://invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5CWWKTLICLKSZ45TKO4?v=la

 

[maki2]

Fun to do. Of course it is done much slower than a native speaker will when talking to you. I need someone to talk to me like the dim wit I am since my brain has to translate to English. But eventually with enough practice there is no need to translate everything.

 

[deadwood]

I am typically the type of person that needs to have some kind of project going on. It is what got me to build my van out. I didn't know how to do it in the beginning but thought I could learn along the way. And let me say it was quite a lot to learn. But I am very happy with my results and have spent the last two years comfortably living in my van. But then I started to get bored again and was looking for a new project. I always wanted to learn another language and felt this was the perfect project to push me to a completely different place then learning to build a van was.

I startred Duolingo a few months ago to learn Spanish as well. I go to Argentina for work quite often and I live in LA so plenty of people for me to practice with. I think the Duolingo is a great way to get introduced to a new language. But I am also looking for a balanced approach to learning as well.

There are tons of Spanish teachers on Youtube that have a lot of free videos and you can spend hours a day watching and adding to the Duolingo experience.

I also watch quite a few shows on Netflix that are all in Spanish. I just watch the Spanish shows with Spanish sub titles to help me understand a little more.

With the internet today there is an overabundance of great material out there to help you learn a new language. But in a short time I have learned quite a bit and will stick with it until I get to a fluent level in the language. At which point I will probably end up looking for a new project to keep me occupied. But I will say that my experience learning Spanish has been quite different then what I expected going in.

When I started my goal was to learn the language enough to hold conversations with native Spanish speakers all over the world. But something interesting happened along the way. As I started to go deeper into leaning the language I noticed that I wasn't just learning a new language to communicate with others. I was learning about a whole new culture and seeing not only the culture but the people of the Latin culture in ways I never would have thought about. So from an academic standpoint it has been a great excercise to push myself out of my comfort zone to keep my mind active. But on a personal side the experience has be personally rewarding from the point of view of learning about a new culture from more of an inside point of view than what I thought of that culture from a distance. It's been quite an unexpected bonus.

 

[maki2]

I had 7 years of Spanish classes when I was in school but that was a lot of years ago. I can always use a refresher course. But I do want to learn more French and some Italian and German too.

 

[Giuseppe Hardblast]

This app has everything. I even seen endangered languages like Hawaiian and Navajo

 

[frankgibbons]

Learn a language with me for free! Duolingo is fun, and proven to work.

Thank you for recommending Duolingo. This app is good to learn a different language. I'm looking forward to learning the Arabic language through this app.

 

[crofter]

Hope to improve my Spanish. Right now I don't understand all the words of a sentence when listening to native speakers, and I only have a few responses figured out.    ~crofter

 

[Marvin]

Thanks for sharing, my kids I use Mondly and it's great as well

 

[Dakotalee]

I am typically the type of person that needs to have some kind of project going on. It is what got me to build my van out. I didn't know how to do it in the beginning but thought I could learn along the way. And let me say it was quite a lot to learn. But I am very happy with my results and have spent the last two years comfortably living in my van. But then I started to get bored again and was looking for a new project. I always wanted to learn another language and felt this was the perfect project to push me to a completely different place then learning to build a van was....
....When I started my goal was to learn the language enough to hold conversations with native Spanish speakers all over the world. But something interesting happened along the way. As I started to go deeper into leaning the language I noticed that I wasn't just learning a new language to communicate with others. I was learning about a whole new culture and seeing not only the culture but the people of the Latin culture in ways I never would have thought about. So from an academic standpoint it has been a great excercise to push myself out of my comfort zone to keep my mind active. But on a personal side the experience has be personally rewarding from the point of view of learning about a new culture from more of an inside point of view than what I thought of that culture from a distance. It's been quite an unexpected bonus.

This is awesome. I'm also studying Spanish on Duolingo. I'm at 5000XP right now. I just want to be able to communicate but your post gives me something else exciting to look forward too. And I agree, Duolingo is great and it's a fun way to learn that helps keep your attention. I got a 23 day streak right now.

 

[Dingfelder]

Good luck on your journey. I took 4 years of Spanish in high school, but that was 40 years ago, and was never close to fluent. I was surprised to see I easily read your Spanish paragraph except for the last word.

I just wanted to note that I did see major improvements when I started purposely trying to think in Spanish. Thinking in English, then trying to translate it into Spanish, was cumbersome and always kept the language slow and just out of reach.

 

[nature lover]

"C"

 

[cyndi]

You can use your phone to practice a new language. Change the primary language setting and ask questions

 

[LERCA]

I’ve made zero progress on Duolingo. I run out of icon things and it sends me back to the beginning because I won’t buy them.
In two years I’m at intermediate level of in person Norwegian classes and still in the first five circles on Duolingo.
For support I use YouTube. I’m a language nerd. Norwegian is my 7 th language. But I’ve never found an app I liked.

 

[crofter]

I only get about every 5th word when people are talking slang.
-crofter