dr_irrational
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Learn any language on your phone's lockscreen
dr_irrational replied to fraser.berlin's topic in Language Study Apps
I just installed this. Thanks, you guys! This is going to force me to keep learning, even when I slack off have other things to do . -
I love Duolingo for reading/writing. It's a kind of coffee-break thing I can sit down and do whenever I have a couple minutes. I'm not sure that it really helps in the speaking/listening aspect though, because it can't tell if your accent is any good and the voice you hear is a synthesizer that's kind of strange (except in, I believe, the case of Irish where there's an actual recording). I treat it more as a sort of interactive flash-card service than a full language learning suite.
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What language do you plan to learn this year 2015?
dr_irrational replied to elenamarie's topic in Language Learning
I'm going to try to become at least conversational in Swedish. I love the little I've learned of the language, and I'd love to visit/live in Sweden someday. -
Hello, I'm Tim from America. I've been getting increasingly embarrassed about my linguistic capabilities (or lack thereof), so I've started using Duolingo to learn Swedish. I'm also learning a bit of Japanese (I can read hiragana and katakana, at any rate), and I learned a bit of Spanish back in middle school. I'm hoping to find a Swedish discussion group, but if that fails I'll brush up on my Spanish. I have a great love of literature and the intricacies of the English language, and I think that will only increase if I become fluent in another language.