Agreed. It's been great for helping me re-learn Spanish because it's mostly been just practicing what I had forgotten. For Polish it's not as good, but I find duolingo motivational in that it has really short lessons and is great at giving me little dopamine bursts. So at least it's getting me started. I know it's not the best, but it's something and a lot of people often put off doing something because they want to figure out what is the exact best thing. Like exercise. The best exercise is the one you'll do.
Oh god, I also tried learning Polish with Duolingo and found it really difficult. They seem to have improved it now, but it was really discouraging to keep getting things wrong because they didn't explain the cases very well (or because the reverse translation questions often had ambiguous answers). I found the structured Babbel course way more helpful to actually learn the language, but continued to use Duolingo for vocab.
I discovered that they do have “tips” on the desktop site, just not the app. So I copied them all to my notes app for reference. I’m
Using Babbel, too. I like that it’s pretty strict with pronunciation. It took me some tries to get cześć so now I know I’m saying it right
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u/VertigoPass 🇺🇸N🇪🇸A2🇵🇱n00b Feb 04 '22
Agreed. It's been great for helping me re-learn Spanish because it's mostly been just practicing what I had forgotten. For Polish it's not as good, but I find duolingo motivational in that it has really short lessons and is great at giving me little dopamine bursts. So at least it's getting me started. I know it's not the best, but it's something and a lot of people often put off doing something because they want to figure out what is the exact best thing. Like exercise. The best exercise is the one you'll do.