Duolingo offers
Super Duolingo Annual Plan on sale for
$59.99.
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create an Account and create a Profile to be given an option to purchase Super Duolingo Annual Plan. Plan will renew at 60% off regular price at time of renewal unless you cancel.
Super Duolingo Plan Includes:
- Learning content
- Unlimited Hearts
- Practice Mistakes
- Unlimited Legendary
- No Ads
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Apps like Duolingo, MosaLingua, Mango, Rosetta Stone, etc can help you learn basic foreign language content. If it's a language that has a different alphabet than your primary language, these apps can help you learn to read in that target language. For example if you speak English and are trying to learn Russian, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
The next level beyond the basics you might learn using these apps would be to read newspapers or online sources in the target language, watch news programs and movies in the target language, listen to podcasts in the target language, watch videos on YouTube in the target language, most of which can be slowed down, if needed. Turn subtitles on in the target language, if possible.
AI sources like ChatGPT one day will become game changers. Although it's not quite there yet, even now you can structure ChatGPT to help you learn some foreign languages and to help you practice things you want to learn in those languages. It can even have conversations with you in those languages, and you can set the speed at which it speaks to you.
Again, right now ChatGPT is def not "there yet" when it comes to foreign languages. I have found when having conversations with ChatGPT, the accents in some languages are not always great, and there are often many grammatical and pronunciation mistakes.
At the moment, ChatGPT seems to do quite well in Spanish, so if that's the language you're trying to learn, def give it a try!
And Duolingo has now been cracking down on non-educators who have been using Duolingo classrooms to get unlimited hearts. Duolingo free tier feels more like a "free trial" now. App was completely different when I first tried it 10 years ago. Now it's about making as much money as possible for their shareholders 😡
Lastly, a note from a polyglot: Duolingo is cute but it won't get you beyond the level of ordering your food or asking for directions in another country. There is no shortcut for systematic grammar and vocabulary learning and for a lot of reading. 🤷
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However, the downside if you haven't noticed yet is that Duolingo forces you to write and speak in a set fashion and does not let you form sentences outside of it's own expectations when translating. Simple examples are contractions which are quite common in any language and Duolingo scores you negative since it wasn't the proposed solution
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Going beyond the basics, you have to research what is available for the language of your choice (e.g. Hueber for German)
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Apps like Duolingo, MosaLingua, Mango, Rosetta Stone, etc can help you learn basic foreign language content. If it's a language that has a different alphabet than your primary language, these apps can help you learn to read in that target language. For example if you speak English and are trying to learn Russian, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
The next level beyond the basics you might learn using these apps would be to read newspapers or online sources in the target language, watch news programs and movies in the target language, listen to podcasts in the target language, watch videos on YouTube in the target language, most of which can be slowed down, if needed. Turn subtitles on in the target language, if possible.
AI sources like ChatGPT one day will become game changers. Although it's not quite there yet, even now you can structure ChatGPT to help you learn some foreign languages and to help you practice things you want to learn in those languages. It can even have conversations with you in those languages, and you can set the speed at which it speaks to you.
Again, right now ChatGPT is def not "there yet" when it comes to foreign languages. I have found when having conversations with ChatGPT, the accents in some languages are not always great, and there are often many grammatical and pronunciation mistakes.
At the moment, ChatGPT seems to do quite well in Spanish, so if that's the language you're trying to learn, def give it a try!
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Super is more than "ad-free", though, as you can practice word matching, speaking, listening, and fixing mistakes.
It seems like it will bring back most of the good things that old Duolingo used to have and be completely ad free. But it's completely unknown when they'll release it. I'm subscribed to their discord just so I will know when it's released.
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And Duolingo has now been cracking down on non-educators who have been using Duolingo classrooms to get unlimited hearts. Duolingo free tier feels more like a "free trial" now. App was completely different when I first tried it 10 years ago. Now it's about making as much money as possible for their shareholders 😡
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