Duolingo

[edyzmedieval]

...or pretty much a thread about learning new skills. :yes:

www.duolingo.com

Signed up for Duolingo a couple of weeks ago to learn new languages. I technically know 3 languages, but I've actually studied around 6 + 1 new language as of now. Forgot the other 3, and now I'm trying to pick back up on them using Duolingo. A really fun app, and as of now, I'm really brushing up on a new language for me which is quite spectacular. Still a below beginner level, but I'm slowly slowly learning, and in a new and engaging way, which makes me quite eager to do my 10-20 minute lesson each day, sometimes even longer than that depending on my eagerness.

Duolingo offers a host of languages, and is pretty much used by over 100 million people to learn new languages, which is... huge. ~:eek:

There's also alternatives like Babbel, but those have to be purchased first.

Thoughts? Anyone learning new languages/skills? ~:)

[Kralizec]

I used Duolingo for a while to (re)learn French. It was pretty handy, but I stopped a few months ago when I was busy with other things. Haven't started again yet due to general lazyness.

[edyzmedieval]

One of the things that I really like about it is that it's really engaging, it doesn't bore you or makes you uninterested. It keeps it interesting and fresh.

[GeneralHankerchief]

I'm a fan of Duolingo, but I wish it had a little bit more of an emphasis on grammar and verb conjugation. I'm learning Italian (from scratch) on it now and while I'm picking some of the conjugations up, I feel like it would be a lot more useful if that was one of the opening few lessons.

Not the sexiest of lessons, I know, but one that's pretty useful.

[Hooahguy]

Ive been meaning to learn German, never got around to it. My brother actually got pretty far in it.

[Montmorency]

I need to relearn English, darn it.

[Fragony]

Ive been meaning to learn German, never got around to it. My brother actually got pretty far in it.

pretty hard, reading not so much but actually writing it is a nightmare

[Husar]

German is really very simple, no problem for me.

As for Duolingo, used it a while ago to help me learn Spanish but have used it very rarely in the last one and a half years or so. Just didn't find the time/will to pick it up again, although I might now that I don't have the time to take further Spanish at the uni.

[Fragony]

Well you kinda had a headstart. But I am pretty bad at all major languages, I don't mind making mistakes in casual use but if I don't want to make any mistakes I really have to try really hard. And that doesn't work either.

[edyzmedieval]

There's also a pretty cute game called Learn Japanese to Survive - Hiragana Battle - it's on Steam, and it teaches you the basic Hiragana alphabet within an RPG game. Katakana will follow in February 2017.

http://study-japanese.net/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/438270/

[SwordsMaster]

I tend to favour memrise.com for my learning. It's mnemonics based and it allows user created content, so there are more options.

[edyzmedieval]

Did anyone try the other ones, like Babbel?

I'm gonna look into memrise. :yes:

[Vuk]

I'll have to give this a try.

[edyzmedieval]

For those of you who have LinkedIn, they decided to offer one full week of all the courses on LinkedIn Learning for free, ranging on a huge variety of topics that will help in your business career. :yes:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/