So, at two minutes per lesson, and 75 lessons per module, that’s 150 minutes per module, or 2.5 hours. How Many Hours Does 1 Language Take to Complete on Duolingo?
One of the most popular and well-known apps for learning Norwegian online is Duolingo. The service is completely free and has taken the language learning community by storm. But does it really work and how do use it most efficiently?
General perception is each level takes 5 minutes, by that calculation it takes about 10 hours to finish it. If you dedicate half an hour per day, you finish the course in 20 days. An hour a day makes it 10 days.
The Duolingo experience varies slightly depending on whether you use the website or mobile app, but its core concept is the same. You can also use Duolingo on a web browser. Lessons are made up of a series of individual learning tasks. These can be translation – either free-form or selecting from given words – or listening-based.
No, you cannot become fluent in Norwegian with Duolingo. You will only learn basic vocabulary and grammar with Duolingo. If you want to become fluent, Babbel, Pimsleur, and italki are much better apps to learn Norwegian.
At 2.5 hours per module, that's 387.5 hours to complete one language.
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You can learn as many words or sentences as you want, but until you're able to have a conversation with another person, you'll never be fluent. Or, according to the CEFR model, you won't even be halfway there.
It's a waste of time. In fact, it's just as bad as the education system Von Ahn criticizes. Duolingo outsources its translation services, allowing for awkward sentences to slip in undetected. And translation (the core of its platform) is already widely known to be an ineffective way to learn a language.
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Due to being a Germanic language, Norwegian is one of the easiest languages to learn by native English speakers. In fact, according to the FSI (Foreign Service Institute) of the US government, an English speaker would need about 575 hours or 23 weeks of practice to become fluent in Norwegian.
BokmålNorwegian for English is a Duolingo language course teaching Norwegian to speakers of English. The course teaches a standardized, moderate form of Bokmål, but other valid vocabulary and grammar variations will be accepted.
When signing up for Duolingo, you set a daily goal. You can choose between 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes a day. Most of the Duolingo marketing touts “Spending 15 minutes a day learning a new language.”
To finish a language tree on Duolingo in 6 months, you will need to spend a minimum of 130 minutes per day on Duolingo, for a full 180 days. That’s 2 hours and ten minutes. Alrighty them. Read about the evolution of the Duolingo mascot, “Duo,” here.
Duolingo premium is about $13 USD per month, and you get some fun features. But most important is that you don’t spend time on ads. If you’re committed to practicing daily – and finishing a language in under 4 years – you’ll want to get rid of the ads. Spend your practice time practicing, not waiting for an ad to load.
On Duolingo when you run out of hearts (lives) you have to go practice to earn hearts. Your practice helps you learn the language, but you don’t advance in levels. You’re learning, but the time spent practicing doesn’t count towards your progress.
Duolingo cofounder and CEO Luis von Ahn. “There’s just some things that with an app you just can’t quite do, that you can do with a teacher. Teachers are really good at answering some types of questions. Those are really good at motivating people.
“I wouldn’t say replace”, said Duolingo cofounder and CEO Luis von Ahn when Business Insider asked him if the app could replace existing language courses. “Our idea with it is you can learn a language with Duolingo by itself. If there’s a teacher available, usually it’s better.”
We collected data from new users who created a Duolingo account in the month of February of 2016. At that time, Duolingo had launched a total of 44 courses, ranging from an Irish course for English speakers to a German course for Portuguese speakers (there are now 62 and counting).
Because each Duolingo course is customized for the language it teaches, the length of each course varies. The number of rows ranges from 29 (English for Spanish speakers) to 60 (Norwegian for English speakers).
Intuitively, one of the biggest factors affecting course progress might be the amount of prior knowledge in the language being learned. Can our data set shed light on this intuition? Conveniently, when you first begin a course on Duolingo, users choose to either take a placement test or start from the very beginning.
Globalization has increased the importance of being able to communicate with people outside one’s native language. So which languages are Duolingo users most dedicated to learning? We compared all courses by looking at the average max row of the users for each course.
As we saw, it seems to be that users who are learning English often make faster progress, but just how much more motivated are they?