A system that takes you on a 50 level journey to conquer 1,700 of the most highly used kanji and a total of 5,000 vocabulary words. Imagine a system so effectively structured that you are spoon-fed all essential kanji necessary to assist you in reading any popular Japanese publication. It helps you develop an identity for thousands of kanji, making words come to life. WaniKani (literally “alligator-crab”) is a new kanji learning tool, developed by the masterminds at Tofugu. You want some new high tech gear, and a group of Sherpas? Then you want WaniKani. Without a thorough grasp of kanji, you will not make it very far. Personally that's how I prefer to learn - I got to being able to read about 50% of the hiragana without too much effort then went straight to WaniKani, and found I was making much more rapid, reliable (i.e I feel like I'm actually _reading_ them, not just being able to remember the meaning/having to think about it) on the remaining 50%, and I've mostly learn the katakana through context/use - but of course YMMV.Learning and having command over the Japanese language without having a mastery of kanji is the equivalent of attempting to climb a high snow-capped mountain in a t-shirt and shorts. > DuoLingo will bring you to 15% understanding of Hiragana before dumping you into Katakana I was reading something the other day and read 心理学校 and 火の用心 as "psychology school" and "beware of fire" without any thought, despite never coming across the phrases before). I feel like it's working because I'm frequently understanding the terms in real Japanese content, and it's giving me the ability to understand terms that haven't been explicitly taught (e.g. It also forces you to rapidly become fluent in hiragana (IIRC romaji isn't used anywhere). It's mainly for vocabulary learning, but just that lets me be able to read enough to be able to start picking up the grammar from context, and (more importantly) being able to apply that grammar in more situations which makes it much easier to learn. However, even for those languages, you will need some other resources to really develop fluency. I think Duolingo in its current form is a good way to stay practiced with a language and learn some vocabulary and grammar, but only for some of the languages. I've quit with the Duolingo Japanese lessons by now, I think I want to wait until they're a little more fully baked, and even then I'll probably need some other outside resources to study along with. However, I couldn't figure out a good way to get Duolingo to give me a list of the kanji I was supposed to have learned by now to use that with kanji, and figured it would be too much of a pain to go back through all of the lessons, write all of that down and then create the flash cards manually from that. I found that actually trying to write out the characters was way more helpful for remembering them then just clicking on the right one out of a list. I created a slide deck using Tinycards (Duolingo's flash-card app, I found it a lot easier to set up and use than Anki even if it's less powerful) in which I would have to write the kana using the handwriting input method for Japanese. I did find an interesting way to practice my hiragana and katakana, though. The Japanese module is still in beta, and it shows tapping on one word to look them up if you don't remember them doesn't work well in Japanese but it works fine in French.Īnd yeah, I found the Japanese curriculum pretty lacking, and the kanji really hard to learn in this format. I recently picked it back up again (couple of months ago), and tried doing both Japanese and French. I had taken some Japanese in high school, and French in college, and later done some Duolingo to try to brush up my French, but then abandoned it.
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But, I can do it without needing a lot of free time, and maybe it'll help some day when I am able to spend a few months in Mexico, so I can immerse myself in the language, to really learn it. One shouldn't expect to get much out, if you're just doing little memory quizzes a couple times a day. So.yeah, I think you kinda get out what you put into learning a language, and Duolingo is way closer to putting in "nothing" than it is to putting in "something". Though assigning a percentage to fluency is a bit weird anyway. I'm maybe 10% fluent, on a good day, when listening, and about 20% when reading. I find the "you are 53% fluent in Spanish" notifications laughable, though.
I only use it for about 10 minutes a day, so I don't expect miracles. But, I do find I can read quite a bit more Spanish after a year or so of using Duolingo mostly daily.
I draw a blank whenever trying to converse in Spanish. I find it fun (enough) and quick enough to use daily to keep my mind thinking in Spanish now and then, but I agree it isn't very effective at allowing me to speak it.
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