I would like to learn a couple of languages (polish and Japanese - I already learned Spanish to a decent degree) but it seems like every solution is closed source.

I would use books but listening (and speaking) are very important and books won’t help with those.

What would you guys recommend?

  • bluGill@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Duolingo is useful for wasting time while feeling like you are learning however it isn’t a great tool for learning if that is your goal.

    • IuseArchbtw@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      A lot of people reduce Duolingo to their app, but they offer a big website on which you get a lot of explanations

    • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
      11·
      2 years ago

      I disagree, of course you can’t learn just using Duolingo, but it is like saying X textbook doesn’t teach you anything because you are only using that. Learning a language is a process that never ends and that requires a lot of different processes, maybe Duolingo doesn’t have absolutely all of them but if you finish a tree of the main languages and some other digging around you will have learnt quite a lot.