DuoLingo Challenge
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For those who have never tried Spanish on DuoLingo, they have "stories" which are actually pretty intense for practicing your language skills. They tell you a story and you have to answer questions as it goes. It's like a reading comprehension quiz in high school.
They currently have 150 of these for Spanish. Which is a LOT.
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So I messed around with DuoLingo on Saturday after this convo(just did the first full lesson in Spasnih)... and while I think it does a good job my previous concerns returned. I don't know that it does a good job teaching you sentence structure. It dives right into work conversion, and then sprinkles that with some sentence structure composition which from what I remember is actually pretty important since gender has a role in Spanish sentence structure.
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@DarienA said in DuoLingo Challenge:
So I messed around with DuoLingo on Saturday after this convo(just did the first full lesson in Spasnih)... and while I think it does a good job my previous concerns returned. I don't know that it does a good job teaching you sentence structure. It dives right into work conversion, and then sprinkles that with some sentence structure composition which from what I remember is actually pretty important since gender has a role in Spanish sentence structure.
It enforces sentence structure. So if you do it a lot, I think that it teaches it decently well.
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I gotta pick back up on my Klingon again.
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I hit 400 crowns last night!
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@scottalanmiller I'm not saying it doesn't enforce it, I'm saying so far I'm not feeling that it actually teaches it. I remember my 1 yr of Spanish and we spent alot of the time at the beginning going over sentence structure and duo lingo seems to be like learn some words... here's a sentence no that's wrong here's the correct structure, here's some more words, here's another sentence, no that's wrong. I'd like to actually explain the sentence structure and why I choose wrong, etc... still as I said I'm super early in so I'll keep on going...
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@DarienA said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller I'm not saying it doesn't enforce it, I'm saying so far I'm not feeling that it actually teaches it.
DL doesn't really teach anything, it seems to expect you to learn only through failure.
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@DarienA said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller I'm not saying it doesn't enforce it, I'm saying so far I'm not feeling that it actually teaches it. I remember my 1 yr of Spanish and we spent alot of the time at the beginning going over sentence structure and duo lingo seems to be like learn some words... here's a sentence no that's wrong here's the correct structure, here's some more words, here's another sentence, no that's wrong. I'd like to actually explain the sentence structure and why I choose wrong, etc... still as I said I'm super early in so I'll keep on going...
I find MangoLanguages much better for learning the structure.
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@DarienA said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller I'm not saying it doesn't enforce it, I'm saying so far I'm not feeling that it actually teaches it.
DL doesn't really teach anything, it seems to expect you to learn only through failure.
lol exactly.
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@DarienA said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller I'm not saying it doesn't enforce it, I'm saying so far I'm not feeling that it actually teaches it.
DL doesn't really teach anything, it seems to expect you to learn only through failure.
And that's where the posts are helpful. Or comments rather, on every question they ask you.
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@Obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@DarienA said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller I'm not saying it doesn't enforce it, I'm saying so far I'm not feeling that it actually teaches it.
DL doesn't really teach anything, it seems to expect you to learn only through failure.
And that's where the posts are helpful. Or comments rather, on every question they ask you.
I post a LOT on there. I've been the one to update a large number of their questions.
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@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@Obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@DarienA said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller I'm not saying it doesn't enforce it, I'm saying so far I'm not feeling that it actually teaches it.
DL doesn't really teach anything, it seems to expect you to learn only through failure.
And that's where the posts are helpful. Or comments rather, on every question they ask you.
I post a LOT on there. I've been the one to update a large number of their questions.
Awesome
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@Obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@Obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@DarienA said in DuoLingo Challenge:
@scottalanmiller I'm not saying it doesn't enforce it, I'm saying so far I'm not feeling that it actually teaches it.
DL doesn't really teach anything, it seems to expect you to learn only through failure.
And that's where the posts are helpful. Or comments rather, on every question they ask you.
I post a LOT on there. I've been the one to update a large number of their questions.
Awesome
In Spanish, at least.
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Rocking it today...
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And the day isn't over. I'd have been doing a lot more if we didn't have company over visiting. And my phone is dead.
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I'm still a long way from maxing out Spanish. Even though I capped on levels long ago. They need to add a lot of levels, you level out long before you finish just getting crowns, let alone going through the lab stuff or stories!
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It would take me well over 400 lessons to get that many points in a day. And they are each worth 15 points if you don't get anything wrong, and take 5 to 10 minutes each if you don't need any instruction.
It's literally impossible for me. No other ways to get points for my language. 40 hours straight time to get that many points.
That's not even fair lol.
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@Obsolesce said in DuoLingo Challenge:
It would take me well over 400 lessons to get that many points in a day. And they are each worth 15 points if you don't get anything wrong, and take 5 to 10 minutes each if you don't need any instruction.
It's literally impossible for me. No other ways to get points for my language. 40 hours straight time to get that many points.
That's not even fair lol.
Just takes hard work
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How many crowns have you earned in Swedish?
