I was learning with Duolingo, and it definitely gave me a leg up in Berlin last month, but frankly I’d already seen the cracks in its design long before I left for Germany.
I uninstalled it the moment I got back and now I’m in the market for some genuinely helpful tools to continue improving my very basic German.
That said, I can’t say I’ve been looking very hard. Motivation in general has been hard to find these past few weeks.
I know that feeling. When I was in Germany on exchange I felt like I made significant progress, but let it fade away by not using it and studying afterwards. And yes, Duolingo is fun but for German it also lacks stuff like proper grammar rules and it really doesn’t help that it doesn’t force you to learn definite articles…
I hope you pick it up again at some point - it will come back faster since you have made good progress already before :)
Stuck.
I was learning with Duolingo, and it definitely gave me a leg up in Berlin last month, but frankly I’d already seen the cracks in its design long before I left for Germany.
I uninstalled it the moment I got back and now I’m in the market for some genuinely helpful tools to continue improving my very basic German.
That said, I can’t say I’ve been looking very hard. Motivation in general has been hard to find these past few weeks.
I know that feeling. When I was in Germany on exchange I felt like I made significant progress, but let it fade away by not using it and studying afterwards. And yes, Duolingo is fun but for German it also lacks stuff like proper grammar rules and it really doesn’t help that it doesn’t force you to learn definite articles…
I hope you pick it up again at some point - it will come back faster since you have made good progress already before :)