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Originally Posted by ArcheM
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. |
Thanks for the link to the article, there were some helpful tips in there, my reading (and some listening skills, as I'm finding out being able to understand a few words here and there while listening to music), is better than my ability to recall words on the spot to speak them, but when I see or hear the word I know what it means, but have a hard time pronouncing some of them (especially if they involve ã, ö, or ü in them), but the more I hear the words I'm sure the better I'll get at pronouncing them (as long as whatever I find to pronounce them like Google translate, which has been wrong before, pronounces them right).
As fpr Duolingo, the app just updated, now they have this thing called crown levels which I really have no idea what that is or means, but it doesn't give you a choice on a lesson anymore and no longer tells you what your weakest words are, plus with the lessons it took away matching pictures to words, I have to start all over as all my progress was lost in this update, and the first thing in the lesson was a picture of a boy with a blank space to write what the word for boy is in German, if I didn't already know that Junge means boy, I wouldn't have been able to find out what it means, yeah I'm a little upset with the update, it already has problems, but I think they just made the app worse and more confusing than it already was. Don't fix what isn't broken.