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detransthrowaway on scored.co
1 year ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)1 child
I've used Duolingo for a year and a half, and this is literally never brought up. I'm guessing it just exists for the founder's political views (They did endorse Kamala Harris publicly) but if you use Duolingo on its own without caring about the "lore" of the characters or stuff aside from actually learning, it's perfectly serviceable.
It's a great way to start and keep motivated, but it's imperfect. Make sure to look into and learn the grammar on your own, stuff like verb conjugation is very useful information that Duolingo won't teach you very well. Check every word on Wiktionary, sometimes there's other definitions or they get it wrong. Wiktionary also has the verb conjugations, and every way to find out more about them and how they're used. There is some advice I can give that's more specific to the language you want to learn, but I don't know that. Also -1 for using "bro".
It's a great way to start and keep motivated, but it's imperfect. Make sure to look into and learn the grammar on your own, stuff like verb conjugation is very useful information that Duolingo won't teach you very well. Check every word on Wiktionary, sometimes there's other definitions or they get it wrong. Wiktionary also has the verb conjugations, and every way to find out more about them and how they're used. There is some advice I can give that's more specific to the language you want to learn, but I don't know that. Also -1 for using "bro".
It's a good app for drilling and repetition, in all honesty the best language learning method is whichever one you're actually going to use