Other Duolingo (free language learning app/web) plus other respurces

A video instructional series in French for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 52 half-hour video programs, audiocassettes, coordinated books, and Web site


Above video series has got some really great feedback from just about every one that has watched it, your meant to enjoy one video a day, then repeat it.

Really pleasant,

 

How do we get what ever her family did into the British education system?

 

just made up the following sentence with my vocab and said it with hammed up French accent sounding like a French Casanova from a film.

je voudrais passer la soiree avec vois mademoiselle


tip of the day is do just language and bath in it only when you do it for hour or two hours, nothing else on the mind and set your internal work space into it and your brain starts to warm up about the topic.

I guess its like most things, good to do just that concentrate and repeat and play with the topic.

 

12 day Spanish streak now and things are starting to make much more sense.

23 day no-booze streak too.

Yo no bebomos cerveza, yo bebomos jugo de mango.

 

Yadda, you deserve some positive re-enforcement to push you into next week and beyond.

Edit: You are ahead of me (doing better than me).

 

Lol, cheers RB.

It's not a race though chap, the trick is to just keep plodding through.

And besides, upon checking, I'm still doing stuff wrong so to correct the above (to not sound all "thankyou please)"...

Yo no bebo cerveza, yo bebo juga de mango.

 

I'm up to a 23 day streak now. Things are still going well and what I really like about the Duolongo software is that it adjusts how quickly your previously completed modules need to be "topped up" dependant on your performance when completing them.

For example, if you cruise through a module without getting anything wrong, that module's bar will remain "full" for a long time. Get a few wrong while making your way through it though and that module's bar will deplete sooner. It works really well because you tend to top-up your weaker completed modules before moving on to new ones.

 

I've been using it for maybe two weeks.

I disagree entirely with its percentage claims, but maybe that's because I'm "in the deep end" of learning a language that is someone I live with's mother tongue.

It also seems to have weird correct/incorrect acceptance. Sometimes I'll make a typo, and it'll say "almost correct", other times flat out wrong - But there doesn't appear to be any substantial difference. ah well.

 

28 day streak and I'm up to the "food 2" module but this evening I topped up my clothes module.

Mis pantalones son púrpura.

 

Well if you will put blue jeans in the red wash...

 

Food2, second module. Done.

Yo no soy un conejo. Yo no quiero lechuga en mi ensalada, gracias.

 

I'd never heard of duolingo until I saw this thread but signed up last night! Time to see how much high school French I remember...

Always been tempted to learn a second language but got put off by prices of things like rosetta stone!

 

It's not perfect but it's very good. It's only 10-15 minutes each day and short of spending the time with a native speaker, I don't know of a better way to learn. Good luck.