Does someone else have the feeling like Duolingo sometimes updates the course-order and while you get newly sorted in there is some surprise new vocabulary you did not learn before? I am doing Duo for a year and a half, in this time they did some major changes in their Design and learning scheme. So maybe I am just bad at Vocabulary but this really stuck out to me.

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I now use Busuu which is much better in my opinion. It actually gives you proper explanations on the reasonings behind things they are teaching you rather than just throwing shit at you with no explanation like Duolingo does. I feel I learnt more in the first month of using it than I did in a year and a half of Duolingo.

    I do need something else to supplement my learning to go with it however but that is more due to my inability to fully grasp different concepts and such. My brain is just more geared to maths and science so I find languages in general inherently more difficult.

    The only thing with busuu is it has a smaller pool of languages so I’m not sure if Russian is one of their taught languages.

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      1 year ago

      Oh okay, I would be happy with some supplementary grammar lessons I guess. I am also annoyed that duo does not give ich habe explicit hints here and I have to research everything by myself.

      I guess I will have a look into Busuu, thanks :)