Do you duo? LINGO that is.

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jennywren 14 Oct 8:55am, 14 Oct 2024 17,863 posts	0 jennywren My welsh course has been ‘twilighted’ which means I’m only practising old stuff now. Don’t want to do another language though because I’m semi proficient after 3 years (!) and if I stop I’ll forget it all!
Velociraptor 14 Oct 8:57am, 14 Oct 2024 71,433 posts	0 Velociraptor Can you get another Welsh course elsewhere, jennywren?
Big_G 14 Oct 9:19am, 14 Oct 2024 4,109 posts	0 Big_G Those that have had success with Duolingo, is it your main source of learning the language would you say? Do you do anything to supplement the app? I like it but I find it frustrating that you can’t seem to go back and redo units (unless I’m missing something!). I do sometimes do the Review lessons and look at the Mistakes section, but I’d like to be able to redo the whole unit sometimes. I haven’t really properly tried anything else, and was poor at languages at school (scraped a C at GCSE French, and I still do not n know how I did that!).
Cerrertonia 14 Oct 9:41am, 14 Oct 2024 22,097 posts	0 Cerrertonia Say something in Welsh is a good follow-on from the DuoLingo course. Duo only takes you so far, at some point you do need to supplement with other stuff - even just watching pop videos or tv shows in your chosen language, or trying to read news articles.
GlennR 14 Oct 10:52am, 14 Oct 2024 76,701 posts	0 GlennR I recommend reading something, with the aid of a good dictionary. Electronic media are quite good too, because you can highlight a word and it will look up the translation for you. That said, you are never going to get to the bottom of Hebrew verb forms, the Spanish subjunctive or Russian verbs of motion without the help of a hefty grammar.
Velociraptor 14 Oct 11:05am, 14 Oct 2024 71,444 posts	0 Velociraptor I did the entire Duolingo Spanish course a few years ago, came away able to read or at least make sense of simple Spanish texts, but nothing stuck. On my second pass through the course, it's throwing grammar at me and I'm thinking, "I must have learned this before," but it doesn't ring any bells at all. Probably because I didn't keep it up or build on what I'd learned. I'm doing an online class once a week now. The main benefit of the class is being put on the spot for listening and talking. But to learn any faster I'd probably have to do what I had to do for language learning at school and commit to learning lists of words and irregular verbs and writing loads of sentences illustrating grammatical constructions.
Nick Cook 14 Oct 11:32am, 14 Oct 2024 36,576 posts	0 Nick Cook My car is pretty
GlennR 14 Oct 11:48am, 14 Oct 2024 76,703 posts	0 GlennR Velociraptor, they added all that grammar in retrospectively, with no explanation.
Velociraptor 14 Oct 11:54am, 14 Oct 2024 71,448 posts	0 Velociraptor That's reassuring, @GlennR. And they seem to parachute in different tenses and strings of subject and object pronouns and then move on to something else without developing them, so often I won't grasp what's going on unless I go and read up on that particular point of grammar or it comes up in class.
WayOfTheDodo 14 Oct 1:33pm, 14 Oct 2024 4,831 posts	0 WayOfTheDodo sallykate wrote:Norwegian possibly (given that my daughter now has a Norwegian boyfriend!). And extend my Swedish in other ways. I’ve stuck with Norwegian despite the fact that after going there everyone we met speaks amazing English (seemingly very few TV programmes are dubbed into Norwegian and it’s compulsory in schools). I’ve found it fascinating seeing the crossover into English, especially the words which sound similar but are spelt completely differently!