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I'm about 9 or so days into lessons on Duolingo. I'm at the point where I feel like I need to understand how to at least all of the characters in hiragana, so I'm gonna start working on drilling through that separately.

Will you use it?

Cocytus posted...

Will you use it?

Once I get comfortable with basic phrases and conversation, I'll probably go to a restaurant and order in Japanese. Once I start getting almost fluent (or at least be able to have some basic conversations), I'm gonna take a vacation and go to Japan.

Is Duolingo fun/effective? Was thinking about using it to learn languages also.

Touch posted...

Is Duolingo fun/effective? Was thinking about using it to learn languages also.

I'm doing well with it so far. I'm obviously pretty early on, so I'll have to see how well I progress over the next year or so. I have a friend who has been doing Duolingo for a couple years now and he says he can understand how to read and write pretty well in Japanese and can hold conversations.

If I do well with Japanese, I'll probably also do Spanish and Portugese.

You're learning Japanese?
I think you're learning Japanese!
I really think *is shot*

I've approached this by learning sentence structure first. Particles seems to need some practice.

Hiragana and reading is a bit secondary atm. Figure I'll learn naturally like a kid first wouldn with any language - speaking

KaZooo posted...

I've approached this by learning sentence structure first. Particles seems to need some practice.

Hiragana and reading is a bit secondary atm. Figure I'll learn naturally like a kid first wouldn with any language - speaking

Yeah, that's seems to be the way that Duolingo is approaching it, but there are certain parts of the lessons where they ask you to either write a character or they give you a part of a character and ask you to complete the rest.

I'd be fine if I just struggle through that and continue on, but the perfectionist in me wants to get all of those right, lol

Duolingo is a good intro but if youre serious about it its honestly not the right tool.

https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/s/1FPX0l3REL

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/s/9MWuczrNR2

Zwijn posted...

Duolingo is a good intro but if youre serious about it its honestly not the right tool.

https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/s/1FPX0l3REL

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/s/9MWuczrNR2

I'm gonna take it in stages for right now. I'll likely move on to other tools once I feel like I've got what I can get out of Duolingo.

I've been using Pimsleur to learn. It's really effective and fun and most lessons are audio only so they can be done in the car while I'm driving.

They have reading lessons as well but obviously you need to be stationary for those. There's also all kinds of culture lessons so you get a better idea of what to say in specific contexts.

Tagging this for resources later. I took a basic course or two for it as a college elective, but didn't get far enough to get fluent. I'd like to try and push for that.

I chickened out before getting to kanji.

ohio

SauI_Goodman posted...

ohio

Ohayo gosaimasu*