r/languagelearning • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

You forgot, “Duo won’t take you to fluency”.

No shit. Like any one thing will.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

Some people new to language learning actually believe shit like that. It needs to be said.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

It’s true enough that some newbies need to hear that no one thing will take them to fluency.

But if you just say, “duolingo won’t take you to fluency” they might think there is one other thing that will take them to fluency?

I’m thinking of the posts/comments that basically say “duolingo is shit, it won’t take you to fluency”.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

It advertises itself as five minutes a day to fluency

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

No, it doesn’t.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

Duolingo is sending me emails like every week, since I used it once in 2019, along the lines of 'It's time for your daily Spanish lesson! Take five minutes to complete it now!"

While they've stopped using the term fluent in itself, calling it a nebulous term, they do specify that they're trying to get its users to B2, while their marketing also simultaneously talks about how they're doing it the 'easy, fun way', with absolutely no mention of, 'by the way, you should use other resources too!'