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You know you’ve mastered a language when you are able to curse or express your angry in it.

Well that said, when I bumped my little toe against the table leg I yelled:

У меня нет яблоки !!!

When I recovered from the “severe” pain I relived the moment and then I remembered what I said. I’ve laughed for about 5 minutes about the fact that I will scream a random Duolingo phrase in times of danger.

Thanks Duolingo👍

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korposmiec

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I wish duolingo could teach you something except some new vocabulary if you are beginner... For me it's just a test for other languages so after 20-30 lessons I can decide if I like it's concept and I would like to learn it or not.

Duolingo won't teach you a grammar, proper sentences construction - just random phrases and some vocabulary. Also it can teach you how to pronounce because you have to listen to most of the words that are written.

I've completed like 100 lessons in spanish (and many people claim that it's the best Duolingo course in app) and when I'm abroad I can't speak it - I understand single words but I remember nothing. It taught me clicking on the tiles with ready words but not writing. It also has pointless "Reading" lessons where you can basically misspell everything or even use similar words instead of these written and it'll be completed as good or excellent nevertheless.

slepyhed

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100 lessons is less than 10 hours of studying. I don't think that's near enough study to expect to speak or understand a language with any method of study.

korposmiec

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Of course not but I meant that in school (even in large class) you have some order of learning. You start with basic grammar concept (a, an, the, plural and singular form, you start with Present Simple, numbers, days of the week). Here everything is mixed. You just learn something, and two or three digits appear so you learn for instance "tres, ocho, diez" and then many many lessons later you learn cinco and seis - makes no sense, you basically remember nothing as there's no order in that. There should be an entire lesson about numbers, days of week, description of location of something (on, in, under, above) so you can start to construct some sentences. Here you cannot you just learn predefined stuff that you've no idea how to modify. Also it gives you a fake feeling that "this language is so easy" when in fact you've no clue about real grammar rules.

Obviously I cannot blame Duolingo for that because this app is free and it's not like i was forced to use it but there's some misconception on the internet about using it so I rather warn people that it's impossible to become fluent just with this app. You need a real lessons and Duolingo can be even a little bit dangerous because it can teach you bad language and grammar habits.