Still trying to learn Vietnamese. I dont think that will stop any time soon.Ah, a tonal language. Hows it coming?
Ah, a tonal language. Hows it coming?
I've started the process of getting into some accounting courses, which I may or may not take far enough to actually get certified as a CPA. I've been doing accounting/auditing work for the Canadian government for the past year and a half or so and not really having issues despite having no formal education on the subject, but I figure it's good to flesh out my understanding and make sure I'm qualified for any related opportunities that I might want to shoot for.
I'm on day 400 something of Duolingo for Espanol but I still feel like I don't know any more than a freshman in high school.That could be because duolingo uses unreliable AI for their translations. It will fail to teach you all the rules of the language so you may come to speak it improperly. When learning a new language, it's vital that your tutoring / study material was made by a human. It may be better for you to read about the language in a book to start trying to learn it. There are also many travel-guides that give you direct translations for common things to say. From there you can talk to people in forums or in real life. If possible for you, you could also take a class.
That could be because duolingo uses unreliable AI for their translations. It will fail to teach you all the rules of the language so you may come to speak it improperly.
Now that makes so much sense now. I hear it completely ignores pitch accent in Japanese which is a huge problem. And will straight up just give you wrong information.
Even if it were giving you reliable direct translations, I would still feel it would be much more important to learn from an actual human. Immersion is the number one most important thing when learning a language. Language is much much more than just remembering words.
Very true.
Apps like Duolingo arent a terrible starting point for building up a small bank of vocabulary to get you started, and you can even continue using them to supplement other learning methods later (Im on a 682 day streak), but actually conversing with native speakers is always the key.
I would even go so far as to say avoid it because it would teach you bad habits and feed you misleading information. Of course, Google Translate isn't much better, probably even worse, and I do use that on occasion to check a word. But I always have to quadruple check it by searching for actual conversations.
Now that makes so much sense now. I hear it completely ignores pitch accent in Japanese which is a huge problem. And will straight up just give you wrong information.
Even if it were giving you reliable direct translations, I would still feel it would be much more important to learn from an actual human. Immersion is the number one most important thing when learning a language. Language is much much more than just remembering words.
im assuming it does terrible w Vietnamese then. Damn.
im assuming it does terrible w Vietnamese then. Damn.
I'm sure it's not good with most Eastern languages. I've watched a video of an Icelandic speaker reviewing the app and it was pretty bad for that too.