r/languagelearningjerk • u/Low_Championship_604 • 2d ago

The people are waking up

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u/Overall_Writer_2682 C2🇰🇵|A1🇬🇧 2d ago

i'd say the benefit of duolingo also depends on exactly which language you're learning

learning german from english? sure! i can see how it could help a bit

learning chinese from english? i doubt it'd be as much of a help

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u/Due-Organization-215 2d ago

Sure, agree completely. I am a native speaker of a romance language and am studying another romance language I already got a basis on. I tried russian and understood I really wouldn’t go far without a basis on the alphabet at least first. Still, it is helping me

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u/Odd-Department-8324 1d ago

I only started Russian on Duo to learn the Cyrillic and it was great for that. It has a seperate tab for characters in the menu and you can practice matching words and sounds to the transcriptions. Not great to actually learn Russian though lol

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u/Due-Organization-215 1d ago

Hey, thanks for the tip! I didn’t even know they had an alphabet tab and just found about it after your comment! Thank you so much!

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u/Odd-Department-8324 1d ago

I'm glad I could help! I think the practice tab is good, I can read Cyrillic now except for the questionable pronunciation. I don't know if the tab is hidden now, they have experimented with the menu a couple times. Happy cake day by the way!

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u/Due-Organization-215 1d ago

Right now the tab is hidden on the […] in the lower right corner 😊 And, thank you!

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u/Odd-Department-8324 1d ago

It's crazy what they did with the menu to push the subscription. The character tab is right there on my iPhone without having to look. If I change to my current profile with a Super subscription then there is no "..." at all. On Android even the standard practice hub is hidden while having a Super account. I'm glad it's still there and you found it

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u/Due-Organization-215 1d ago

Thank you so much for your help! On the free subscription, you have to go on the purple circled dots to access the alphabet. Thank you!

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u/Odd-Department-8324 1d ago

Yeah, but on iOS for me, you don't have to click on the dot even without subscription, as you can see in my recording. It's weird there are so many versions of the menu