DuoLingo Challenge
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@dariena said in DuoLingo Challenge:
I have always wanted to learn Spanish..... over the last few years I've downloaded DuoLingo to my phone 2-3 times and eventually deleted it without doing anything...
It's all about finding a way to make it into a habit. I try to find challenges to go after, like beating everyone on my list in points. Or keeping up a streak.
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
like beating everyone on my list in points
Only by a few points...
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@obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
like beating everyone on my list in points
Only by a few points...
Um....
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@scottalanmiller sarcasm. But I was referring to the total lol.
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@obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller sarcasm. But I was referring to the total lol.
Ah, yeah, I've been going crazy to pull ahead of the one person that historically had so much more than me.
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What is it, like up to 5 minutes per 15 points if your learning from it rather than pure maintenance. Longer if you read the teaching pages.
I just don't have the time.
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@obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
What is it, like up to 5 minutes per 15 points if your learning from it rather than pure maintenance. Longer if you read the teaching pages.
I just don't have the time.
Yes, if that is all that you do. You can move a little faster on stories, more like 25 points in five minutes. I've maxed out Spanish and Italian (Spanish I've leveled out, too), so move much faster in points while testing out of the language. I figure it'll take at least six months just to test out, there is so much to test out of.
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
What is it, like up to 5 minutes per 15 points if your learning from it rather than pure maintenance. Longer if you read the teaching pages.
I just don't have the time.
Yes, if that is all that you do. You can move a little faster on stories, more like 25 points in five minutes. I've maxed out Spanish and Italian (Spanish I've leveled out, too), so move much faster in points while testing out of the language. I figure it'll take at least six months just to test out, there is so much to test out of.
The language I'm doing doesn't have stories or anything extra for points.
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@obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
What is it, like up to 5 minutes per 15 points if your learning from it rather than pure maintenance. Longer if you read the teaching pages.
I just don't have the time.
Yes, if that is all that you do. You can move a little faster on stories, more like 25 points in five minutes. I've maxed out Spanish and Italian (Spanish I've leveled out, too), so move much faster in points while testing out of the language. I figure it'll take at least six months just to test out, there is so much to test out of.
The language I'm doing doesn't have stories or anything extra for points.
That'll slow you down a lot. Spanish has many paths, although 95% of the time I'm just slogging through earning my crowns.
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What are you supposed to do with all of these?
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
What are you supposed to do with all of these?
Use them when you are busy just incase you miss a day
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@obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
What are you supposed to do with all of these?
Use them when you are busy just incase you miss a day
That never works, on the day that I would need to use them, I have no idea that I'll need to. And on a day that I get busy, if I had time to use these, I'd just do the lesson and get my points.
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For those who have never tried Spanish on DuoLingo, they have "stories" which are actually pretty intense for practicing your language skills. They tell you a story and you have to answer questions as it goes. It's like a reading comprehension quiz in high school.
They currently have 150 of these for Spanish. Which is a LOT.
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So I messed around with DuoLingo on Saturday after this convo(just did the first full lesson in Spasnih)... and while I think it does a good job my previous concerns returned. I don't know that it does a good job teaching you sentence structure. It dives right into work conversion, and then sprinkles that with some sentence structure composition which from what I remember is actually pretty important since gender has a role in Spanish sentence structure.
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@DarienA said in DuoLingo Challenge:
So I messed around with DuoLingo on Saturday after this convo(just did the first full lesson in Spasnih)... and while I think it does a good job my previous concerns returned. I don't know that it does a good job teaching you sentence structure. It dives right into work conversion, and then sprinkles that with some sentence structure composition which from what I remember is actually pretty important since gender has a role in Spanish sentence structure.
It enforces sentence structure. So if you do it a lot, I think that it teaches it decently well.
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I gotta pick back up on my Klingon again.
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I hit 400 crowns last night!
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@scottalanmiller I'm not saying it doesn't enforce it, I'm saying so far I'm not feeling that it actually teaches it. I remember my 1 yr of Spanish and we spent alot of the time at the beginning going over sentence structure and duo lingo seems to be like learn some words... here's a sentence no that's wrong here's the correct structure, here's some more words, here's another sentence, no that's wrong. I'd like to actually explain the sentence structure and why I choose wrong, etc... still as I said I'm super early in so I'll keep on going...
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@DarienA said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller I'm not saying it doesn't enforce it, I'm saying so far I'm not feeling that it actually teaches it.
DL doesn't really teach anything, it seems to expect you to learn only through failure.
