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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Duolingo is a good tool for stuff that flashcards are good for - learning letters/alphabets/symbols, learning new words, basic sentence structure/grammar, etc. It's one good tool for language learning, but it won't do the whole job by itself. Certainly not garbage, as long as you use the tool correctly.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yeah that's pretty much where I'm at. I joined my buddy in his wife's Japanese club, but I know absolutely nothing. Trying Duolingo primarily to learn the alphabets. It's not perfect, but I can recognize them all and read Hiragana, so it's not completely worthless!

    Didn't help me learn how to wite at ALL though. Too little practice, it's definitely a tool (for some languages as least) that's meant to be used with other learning methods

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