how to ACTUALLY learn a language (tips, my experience, all that good stuff)

My mum LOVES duolingo, and I keep her there because I don't want that bird to kidnapp her😔

"Don't use Duolingo" Me: immediately completes another lesson But seriously, learning a language (especially German) solely through Duolingo is never gonna be enough.

A tip about duolingo. The random phrases that they make you say that you wouldn't see yourself using in real life are not used to teach you phrases, they are to get you used to a specific word and how it works in sentences. Anyways don't use only duolingo to learn a language, I mostly use it to study and stuff.

Step, " find friend." me : panicks searches how to make friends "talk to yourself" Well, isn't it something I can do- at last.

I agree with her. I think being self-taught and talking to myself is being the best strategy to learn languages, and somehow I’ve found out that I know more about myself as a result. I’ve watched 2 videos of this channel so far and has become one of my favs.

3:56 "yes hungarian, I'm looking at you" as a hungarian native speaker I was sitting there like "omg, she's talking to me" :D :O :O LOL

Duolingo: Hey can you translate "the man swims in the house" in Japanese? edit: i have no idea how this comment got likes i

how i leisure learn spanish tv shows: cable girls, money heist, elite, locked up, gran hotel (all from spain though) music: rosalía, J balvin, kali uchis, daddy yankee, becky G, paloma mami, bad bunny, thalía, CNCO and lots more but can’t name them all youtube: spanish speaking videos, vlogs of people backpacking south america, culture videos, accent videos podcasts: duolingo (i listen to them whilst walking my dogs and then look over the transcript if i can) there’s also the duolingo app which can be fun! it’s a little repetitive but it’s encouraging and gives you good vocab. more apps: mesalingua, memrise and busuu

The beginning is so accurate for me 😂

I agree. But, i would recommend duolingo for COMPLETE beginners who are trying to learn basic vocabulary and how specific words work in sentences. It wont work if you want to advance in the language though

i started with flashcards. i used instagram to read short news articles. I understood the basic idea, and used google translate for words i didnt know. sentence structure and grammar came naturally from reading and listening. i talk to myself in my head, and out loud when im alone in my target language. instead of sitting down and studying, i just think „oh, whats this word?“ and look it up, make a few sentence examples for it, and move on. i might forget it, i might not. but over time, i remember it easier. i listen to grammar videos while i do other things. instead of sitting down and „studying“, i just read instagram posts, look up words that i realize i do not know, occasionally i may use flashcards, and talk to myself in that language. btw, im learning german and i know 400-500 words and been like 2-3 months

When you said that your school made you hate Spanish, I felt that on a personal level. Took 5 years of Spanish at my school and now I can't kook at the language without having anxiety due to the speaking tests we had

Me using Duolingo: 👀

"god, it's repetitive!" i swear to you i felt that on a spiritual level

i am a portuguese speaker learning korean and italian at the same time, the methods I use for learning each one is quite different but also similar. I get a basic knowledge about the basic structures and vocabulary, then rely on music, tv shows and stuff. talking with yourself is the best way to improve for sure!!!!! I also use language learning apps just to don't forget stuff, it's not my main resource.

I almost forget. I also divide my learning day in “active learning” and “passive learning” and that’s different from traditional and leisure learning. I study traditionally passively. I love so much languages than maybe I’m going crazy with this haha. Stay safe!

Duolingo can be very helpful if you’re using it along with other methods. It’s not gonna make you native level fluency but is very good for teaching you vocabulary, and if you repeat every word on there it works on your accent as well. It’s for beginners and it can be effective if used well.

I was screaming because of duolingo. I started to learn Korean. Of course I started with learning 한글, the korean alphabet and I am like really good. So I can read tweets, articles and all that, even if I'm not able to translate anything. Duolingo was asking me about the pronunciation of different vowels like 워. I was so sure how it is pronounced and Duolingo said I am wrong several times. I asked google, asked some Koreans and proved, that I was so fucking right. I deleted Duolingo due frustration. Everyone told me how hard the Korean pronounciation is, but I don't really have problems with it. The only thing which is pissing me off is the consonant ㄹ, but the rest is kind of easy, especially those ㅐ sounds, because in germany we have those letters ä,ü,ö.

I trusted that your advices are legit the moment you said don’t use Duolingo 😂

The biggest reason I want to learn Spanish is because my friend is from Spain and I would love to be able to talk to her in Spanish.