Duolingo should be on borrowed time, as a method to learn a language it’s inefficient to the point of being ineffective - it seems to serve as an acceptable reason for fiddling with one’s phone, like a Guilt-Eze pill.
I spent 18 months on it and the learning was soundly thrashed by three weeks in a classroom, and for all the pupils, not just me, primed for success by 18 months with Duolingo.
Unless anyone has had a different experience, Duolingo is an exercise in self-deception. No doubt there will be people in difficult situations that have managed just fine with Duolingo, or in spite of it, but it doesn’t feel like a growing market.
I spent 18 months on it and the learning was soundly thrashed by three weeks in a classroom, and for all the pupils, not just me, primed for success by 18 months with Duolingo.
Unless anyone has had a different experience, Duolingo is an exercise in self-deception. No doubt there will be people in difficult situations that have managed just fine with Duolingo, or in spite of it, but it doesn’t feel like a growing market.