But in Duolingo they taught as if you should translate 'the X' without 'bir' and 'a/an X' with 'bir'. But they're not exactly indefinite articles, and sentence usually makes sense without them and when you speak fast you omit them. For example, in Turkish there is a word 'bir' (read ) which literally means 'one' which is sometimes used akin to indefinite articles (a/an). I'm a Turkish native speaker and I couldn't pass their intermediate Turkish material as well.ĮDIT: Also it felt like the whole game was written from an 'Indo-European' perspective. I don't think you'll learn to speak any languages with it.

I also had to follow youtube lessons to make any sense of what I learned.ĭuolingo is cool at making it look fun to learn. I know words, but those words make no sense on their own. I can't count to ten because it only gives you numbers randomly. I can't form a sentence on my own because it never teaches you how. But after completing the entire suite, I still can't look at a japanese text and read it. Japanese: This is very different from the languages I speak. The correct answers are always cringe worthy. I had to read a lot or children book to remedy that.įrench: As a french speaker, I went through it as a meta course just to see. After completing the course, I tried having conversations with people (with friends but mostly uber drivers) and I was surprised how many times i learned it all wrong. Spanish: I speak french and English so Spanish is relatively easy to complete. I did Duolingo seriously for more than 370 days in a row.

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