There are probably much better courses than Duolingo, but Duolingo has the important advantage that I actually do it. Just racked up a one-year streak in Spanish.
I love the gamification. Duolingo uses every scurvy trick of mobile game gamification - and it's all in the cause of getting you to do your practice. I must do my morning and evening sessions so I can rack up the double XP!!
I can almost read Salvadoran Twitter! Thankfully, shitposting turns out to be the universal human language and translates near-perfectly.
Infuriated to find out just a couple of weeks ago - after nearly a year - that Duolingo Spanish from English just leaves out "vos" entirely. (As well as "vosotros".) And von Ahn's from Guatemala!
I love the gamification. Duolingo uses every scurvy trick of mobile game gamification - and it's all in the cause of getting you to do your practice. I must do my morning and evening sessions so I can rack up the double XP!!
I can almost read Salvadoran Twitter! Thankfully, shitposting turns out to be the universal human language and translates near-perfectly.
Infuriated to find out just a couple of weeks ago - after nearly a year - that Duolingo Spanish from English just leaves out "vos" entirely. (As well as "vosotros".) And von Ahn's from Guatemala!