Stumbled on a topic that mirrors my thoughts about language learning: https://blog.thelinguist.com/active-...ive-vocabulary And also my problems with Duolingo. Well, it gives you (or maybe it's just me) topics that you don't care about (without an option to opt out). And starts you with creating sentences without an ounce of understanding. I dread to think what my experience using it for Welsh would have been. I certainly wouldn't have any idea about the pronunciation (it has some pretty tricky sounds)... Well, alright, I guess I can't escape this critique unscathed. I suppose I'm going to make time for daily Welsh study... Although I've already confirmed (as if that was necessary) that learning words on their own is useless. Struggled for tens of repetitions with words from a word list, then found a short story, got some example sentences from there, and those words popped into my head almost instantly, it seems.

The article also contains a promotion for the author's app, which, well, you might want to check out, but it's paid... and, of course, requires some free memory, so... Anyway, wanted to give you a heads-up, because the promotion is kind of abrupt.