I spent 500 days learning Dutch on Duolingo
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Duolingo claims that learning a new language is straightforward. They say you'll eventually become fluent by dedicating just a few minutes daily.
I've used the Duolingo app to learn Dutch for 500 days, so I will find out if their promise holds up.
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Language learning videos: • language learning
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00:00 Intro
00:55 Duolingo overview
01:43 Problems with Duolingo
05:37 My progress
06:27 Positives of Duolingo
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How long is your streak on Duolingo?
0
~130
Mine is 41 days for german
0, the owl is coming for me
I will have 841 today 💪
I used Duolingo to study Swedish several years ago. I've also looked at the Russian, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, and Japanese courses. By far the most comprehensive was the Swedish course. It had fantastic moderators who would answer learners' questions, and they also provided excellent grammar notes. Unfortunately, Duolingo ditched the notes and the mods. I will NEVER forgive them for that! Because I know Spanish and some French, the Portuguese and Italian courses were okay for me. I've also lived in both Japan and Taiwan, so those courses were largely accessible. However, the Russian, Hebrew, and Korean courses were totally useless. I still can't speak Swedish except haltingly and with poor pronounciation, and usually can't understand it, but I can read a newspaper, and I can pick up new concepts fairly easily. The Portuguese and Italian, thanks to my Spanish and French, are pretty useful for me. But to learn a new language that is dissimilar to one I already know? No, Duolingo doesn't work for me.
Good review; I have a pretty similar experience and conclusion.
Yeah, even the forums, where you can post questions about specific Duolingo sentences, are gone.
I did it a few years ago before they updated it. Now it is quite different with all the sections. So I started over, 151 day streak, but also watch many videos about Dutch and also watch Dutch TV, I would classify my level somewhere between B1-B2, but not sure if I ever will reach C1, at least not with Duolingo.
That's great to hear. How do you train your speaking?
@@dpashutskii I live in the same country where the language is used and as I got better, people stop speaking back to me in English. Mostly just listening to audiobooks is a good way to get the proper pronunciation.
Im one week away from 500 days in Dutch!!
That's pretty good, which section are you on?
@@dpashutskii I'm on reflexive verbs, I don't think that's too far in. For the past 6 months I've been just doing it to keep the streak and studying with other methods for the main part.
What are the channels you watch on youtube for learning Dutch? Advice a few, please)
Hey!
I watch those:
- youtube.com/@LearndutchOrg (check out his "Heb je zin" playlist)
- www.youtube.com/@DutchPod101 (good podcast as well)
- www.youtube.com/@EasyDutch (I like that they show real-life people)
- www.youtube.com/@learndutchwithkim (tons of videos explaining the grammar rules)
If you click on the section are where it shows you sections 1-3 theres a thing on the top right corner of each section saying see details where it gives you some explanation.
I know, I talked about it on the video. It doesn't contain any explanation for Dutch and many other languages.
It has explanations for Spanish or English for example.
@@dpashutskii I don't know why you don't have it but I am learning Dutch as well as other languages, and I do see it for Dutch.
Mine just have key phrases
@@dpashutskii that's weird cause I get grammatical concepts and other stuff
@@dpashutskii it's the bit where there's 3 sections in Dutch then personalized practice etc. so let's say ur on section 2 or 3 and u want to go back and review the old sections on each section's icon there's a thing that says see details
I spent about 80 days to learn dutch with Duo and I am on unit 11 in section 2. I found now I slightly understand Dutch contents. I am Korean and as a korean, Dutch was absolutely a foreign language (couldn't understand anything at start).
Yeah, basically the same for me. It's also from a completely different language family from my native language (slavic).
Through my 13 days steak learning Dutch outside of Netherlands 😊
Nice! Good luck :)
Hi Dimitri, as someone who followed and completed Duolingo's Dutch course several years ago, I wholeheartedly agree with you that doing just Duolingo for 15 minutes a day will indeed not do anything for you. But that probably is true for other app-based language learning tools as well. One needs to go out and start speaking the language as much as they can in order for them to overcome the barrier.
I am now a fluent L2 speaker of Dutch with B2.2 proficiency and I cannot stress enough that the course on Duolingo is not even remotely capable of taking you there. Even if they add an entire unit on culture or idioms or what have you, you won't make real strides unless you start talking to people or read Dutch books or immerse yourself in the language in any of the other possible ways. Good luck!
I fully agree! Did you take any Dutch courses?
Would love to have some recommendations!
Next to Duolingo, I followed Michel Thomas' Dutch audio course to work on my sounds and pronunciation. Thanks largely to that, I now speak without any noticeable foreign accent.
Working with Dutch-speaking colleagues helped achieve the much-needed fluency, the familiarity with colloquialisms and idioms, and the ability to think in the language.
Being a language nerd has helped me enormously along the way.