![]() If you want real language knowledge, as OP mentions speaking is the hardest part (active & rapid usage of all that you know), and Duolingo doesn't prepare you for this, at all. You get into the bubble that you think you are progressing but reality is, its a very narrow and not-so-useful progress if whole language knowledge is your goal - mostly passive skills and certain type of language usage that goes along with the type of exercises in Duolingo. I have a mission to get B1 French, tried Duolingo with some basic level for cca 6 months in past year. There are definitely more effective methods, just mostly not free and more time demanding. I suppose in the end Duolingo's valuation is more a reflection of people's desire to learn a language rather than people actually learning a language, though. The problem is that you can't possibly become fluent in a language with an app like it and there isn't any single app that will. They also make it a fun activity and incentivize engagement with humor and gamification. Language learning apps like Duolingo sell the idea of learning a language which is an extremely attractive idea to a lot of people. Speaking and listening are related skills yet speaking is much harder than listening, and both are much harder than reading (for the vast majority of languages). Language learning is hard and a multifaceted thing that no single application is going to adequately prepare you for. ![]() ![]() Unless your major in college is a specific language, you probably won't achieve any sort of fluency in your target language from taking a course in it, either. ![]() I was a cryptologic linguist for the army and went through a 16 month course of 6-7 hours of classroom instruction per day M-F, native speaking instructors, tons of immersion, and a couple hours of homework each night and left still feeling like I hardly knew the language that I was supposed to be interpreting. ![]()
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