Having finished a Duolingo course, you should probably start with something more advanced like “French 4” or “French 5”. Build your own flashcard deck Let’s be honest: if you’re serious about learning vocabulary, you should develop your own flashcard deck at some point.
Having finished a Duolingo course, you should probably start with something more advanced like “French 4” or “French 5”. Build your own flashcard deck Let’s be honest: if you’re serious about learning vocabulary, you should develop your own flashcard deck at some point.
Seek Out Speaking. They say practise makes perfect. I say practice makes better. Everything you do to learn a language actively – even if subtly or unnoticeably – supports all areas of your language progress. But, that said, if you want to get better at speaking…well, speaking as much as possible is a good idea.
Memrise and Clozemaster are said to be good. Also, read books, watch TV, watch films, and start to communicate online in Italian. 6. level 1. SyrupOnWaffle_. · 2y. 🇸🇪🇫🇷. if you get to a point where you feel like you are done with doulingo, there is something called clozemaster, which basically extends on doulingo vocabulary. 4.
I finished my French tree recently too! A couple of good resources: Lingvist.io : good for expanding vocab (Duolingo is fairly limited in this respect, as it's focus is more on building the sentences). It has listening and reading exercises and is free for now.
My two favorite channels on YouTube for learning German are Easy German and Learn German with Ania.
If you subscribe to Netflix, you can find movies and tv shows with audio and subtitles in various languages. Try searching "German language movies" to find movies originally in German. Or search for "Audio in German" to find non-German movies that have been dubbed into German.
Since I live in California, I don't have much opportunity to immerse myself in German.
It's amazing how quickly we can forget new things we've memorized. Even though I've finished the German tree on Duolingo, there's lots I've already forgotten.
Have you finished a Duolingo tree? What did you do after that to continue your language learning?
Each day (morning or night, or noon, whatever it’s all good) write down what you’re grateful for in the language you’re learning.
Food is a great connection, especially at the intermediate stage when we really want to bring in cultural elements as much as possible. (Ideally we’re doing this from the get go, but it’s even more significant here if we’re going to really commit to a language.)
You could throw lots of money at 1:1 lessons in the hope that you’ll be magically fluent just by showing up. Not gonna happen.
It’s quite easy nowadays to start learning a language. Duolingo and co have made language learning more accessible than ever, which is great! But…what next? Here’s my favourite intermediate language learning strategies to do after Duolingo.
If you stop studying after you complete a Duolingo course, you”ll miss out on valuable grammar, vocabulary and listening practice, and your skills won’t progress past the level Duolingo left you at . Without a clear course of action for what to do after Duolingo, it might be too easy to quit studying altogether.
Using spaced repetition, Duolingo presents students with material in an organized manner designed to maximize learning while minimizing time and effort.
If that seems too daunting, check out Readlang. Readlang is an excellent tool to transition to reading longer texts in your target language. It allows you to click on words or phrases as you’re reading to get a quick translation. You can even turn the words you look up into flashcards.
FluentU takes real-world videos— like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons.
There are two ways you can make this happen.
And among language students, Duolingo certainly has a reputation as being one of the cool kids. Practically any language learner you meet knows the name, and many learners have at least tried Duolingo, if not completed a whole course.
Most Duolingo texts are quite brief, so if you rely on Duolingo alone, you might not have the skills you need for more in-depth reading.
Duolingo’s purpose is to prove to people that they can learn a foreign language.
All I would add is that, arguably, Duolingo’s objective is not to turn people into qualified interpreters capable of understanding complex language related to specialist fields. It is designed to take people from zero knowledge to being able to recognise a few signs, notices and announcements when visiting a country, and have a short conversation with someone, maybe write a few sentences for whatever purpose. It is not a bad tool within that scope, although personally I would still use a variety of resources.
That's one point for comparison, but a classroom provides certain opportunities for practice which Duolingo doesn't, and it teaches some skills (like speaking) which Duolingo can't. There's more to fluency than just vocabulary and grammar.
Anyway, Duolingo is not enough and at some point you’re just going to waste your time trying to finish you tree. Sometimes, the sentences given are not even the words you’ll probably use in real life. But, it does help you remember the pattern of how the grammar works (atleast for me.)
I concur with the others. Duolingo is a fun way to get some basics down but will not get you to fluency on its own, and that's especially true for speaking. It helps much more for reading, writing and listening. You will find trying to speak to native speakers in extended conversations still quite difficult if you don't specifically practice talking to people, which Duolingo won't help with unless your area has one of the groups that holds events to practice, most of which probably won't draw native speakers.
Duolingo is very clear that it, on it’s own, will not make anyone fluent.
No, they're not fluent - far from it! Of course, Duolingo only has the five levels for Gaelic at the moment, so it doesn't claim to make you fluent, but there are other factors to consider.
In order to restore a skill on Duolingo, you click on the skill and hit “practice.” You will earn 10 XP for practicing and it will turn your skill back to gold!
When you have earned 5 crowns in a skill in Duolingo, your skill will turn gold! However, you’ll notice that soon after it turns to gold, it breaks. You’re given the choice to practice the skill to restore it, but what does that mean? Keep reading to figure out how to restore your skills on Duolingo, why you even have to restore skills at all, and what happens if you DON’T restore them!
However, it can easily become a distraction and you end up spending your time each day restoring your skills instead of learning anything new.
Duolingo has you restore skills on Duolingo since it’s natural that you start to forget things that you have learned after a certain period of time and that you will need to practice them again.