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Duolingo

  • 21-12-2014 7:30am
    #1
    EhBenDisDonc
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭


    Just discovered the free Duolingo app. So far, I've run through a couple of lessons and am very impressed. It's an addictive way to learn, and is set to while away a few hours over Christmas.
    I'd be interested to know if others have had a go.


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  • #2
    pillphil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭pillphil


    I'm using it to relearn french. Have you heard of memrise? It's not an app, it's only on computers afaik.
    It uses mnemonic devices(eg avoir = to have: "I 'av") and scheduled repetition to help you remember words. It covers the areas duolingo deems to be lacking.
    It seems strange, but it's a really good way to help remember stuff, for example, even after 10 years of not doing french, I could still remember the french for green: vert/verte, because it sounds like pervert :confused: It's weird but it works.


  • #3
    EhBenDisDonc
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭EhBenDisDonc


    I have played around a little with the Memrise Android app. I haven't quite made my mind up. It seems to involve a lot of repetition, but could be a useful tool for building vocabulary.


  • #4
    Dirty Steve
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Dirty Steve


    Glad I opened this thread. Have been using Duolingo to learn French for a while now, will have to take a look at Memrise to assist in learning.


  • #5
    PLL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    EhBenDisDonc wrote: »
    Just discovered the free Duolingo app. So far, I've run through a couple of lessons and am very impressed. It's an addictive way to learn, and is set to while away a few hours over Christmas.
    I'd be interested to know if others have had a go.

    No but thanks for the tip. I'm studying French in college so this could be a great help.


  • #6
    pillphil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭pillphil


    EhBenDisDonc wrote: »
    I have played around a little with the Memrise Android app. I haven't quite made my mind up. It seems to involve a lot of repetition, but could be a useful tool for building vocabulary.

    I'm still at an early enough stage of learning so I find it useful for learning the lists of verbs, duolingo doesn't really teach you them well or revise them often enough and when it does revise them, it revises the same ones most of the time. It also doesn't quiz you on the root of the verbs.
    There is an unoficial duolingo specific memrise course. The best thing to do is set everything to ignore and just unignore whatever you are learning at the minute


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