I try to do at least one Duolingo session a day.

It definitely motivates me to keep going. I only briefly dabbled in Chinese and Japanese on Duolingo, just to see what the content was like, but didn’t really do any regular learning for those languages last year.īeing in the top 4% is quite an honor! I think I use Duolingo quite a lot more than the average casual user, but I see so many other more determined users who rack up so much more XP than me every week. And recently, they also introduced the new “Legendary” level, so even though I’m focused on Spanish, I might have to return to Korean just to get those fancy purple crowns. After I completed the entire Korean tree, I noticed that Duolingo added a hangul course, so I decided to do that too, just because I like completing things. Nowadays I mostly use Duolingo to practice Spanish, but previously I used it mainly for Korean. I don’t follow tons of people or participate on the discussion boards, but giving “high-fives” to other users and competing on the leader boards are two fun social aspects of this platform. The social aspect of Duolingo is also cool. But doing bite-sized lessons in my target languages every day is a great way to get my language muscles warmed up. I don’t think I could learn a language to fluency from scratch on Duolingo. Korean on the other hand, has much less content and fewer exercise types, so the learning experience is not quite as enjoyable. There is a TON of content in the main learning section, the exercises in the lessons are extremely varied, and there are also extensive story lessons and podcasts to listen to.

I think Spanish-learners actually have a lot of great content to learn from. And not every language on Duolingo is created equally. Many language learners on social media often say that using Duolingo is an ineffective waste of time, but I really think that depends on what your goal is when using Duolingo. Let’s go!įirst off, I have to say that I really enjoy using Duolingo. In today’s post, I’ll be sharing my numbers for 2021 (through November 30th) and also reflecting on my Duolingo usage for the past year. At the new year, Duolingo released a year-in-review report for users that broke down minutes learned, XP earned, and other interesting stats.

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