>The problem is that you can't possibly become fluent in a language with an app like it and there isn't any single app that will.
I don't think anyone is seriously under the delusion that Duolingo alone will make you fluent in a language.
It is an amazingly powerful tool to bootstrap you from "I cannot understand a single word of this language" to "I can pick up a newspaper and get a vague idea of what they're talking about", though.
I cannot think of a single more effective method than Duolingo to get over this first hurdle.
I don't think anyone is seriously under the delusion that Duolingo alone will make you fluent in a language.
It is an amazingly powerful tool to bootstrap you from "I cannot understand a single word of this language" to "I can pick up a newspaper and get a vague idea of what they're talking about", though.
I cannot think of a single more effective method than Duolingo to get over this first hurdle.