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minus-squareSagittarii@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down2·4 months agoShould use HelloChinese instead tbh. Duolingo is more like a game than a language learning app.
minus-squareMeowZedong@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 months agoSeconded. HelloChinese is so much better at teaching than Duolingo and it scratches the same game-like itch.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 months agothis is the best app I’ve found https://www.superchinese.com/
minus-squareKacarott@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 months agoDuolingo is good for “tourist style” language learning, where you learn some phrases, can recognise and read a few words, etc, but next to no chance of actually pulling off a proper conversation with a local.
Should use HelloChinese instead tbh. Duolingo is more like a game than a language learning app.
Seconded. HelloChinese is so much better at teaching than Duolingo and it scratches the same game-like itch.
this is the best app I’ve found https://www.superchinese.com/
Duolingo is good for “tourist style” language learning, where you learn some phrases, can recognise and read a few words, etc, but next to no chance of actually pulling off a proper conversation with a local.