I didn't even know that was clickable until I was looking it up. I can go to practice, but it's also organized very stupidly, by having to ALREADY KNOW I have to tap on the little unlabeled heart in the top corner, then open a tab, then click on practice. I mean, it will show me the word with a translation during a lesson, why can't it let me review them on their own to build my memory? I want to use the app to have my learning organized into a convenient place, and be clearly presented. I should be able to go into a word review section, and have them organized by common phrases, greetings, jobs, etc, instead of pages full of word salad. Then, keep doing it all the time as I learn new words. How am I supposed to memorize something I am shown for 5 minutes, and then never get to see again? It's kinda silly that I have to stop my lessons, get a pencil and paper, write things down as they pop up, then re-organize them in a better way later on, and make a print out to review. Like, without being a language teacher or app designer, the things that even I would know would be essential are either missing or too hard to find.įor example, where are "learned" words? It presents a new word in a lesson, shows the translation, then moves on and possibly never used that word again. It's been the best for me so far, but I'm just baffled how it is missing some of the most basic features. We are lucky to have so many resources out there to learn from. TTMIK has good explanations and good audio, but doesn't really have a way to practice. Duolingo gives me a good way to practice and drill things. There are explanations on the website, not in the app (you didn't mention this, but it comes up every time someone mentions Duolingo). I'll never say "The cat drives the car" but I can sub in other words into the same grammar pattern. Yeah.some of those are confusing because I'm not sure if I translated it right or not. Drops has a neat way of phasing out the romanization as you learn words (or you can turn it off entirely). TTMIK still shows romanization even for words it introduced ages ago (I'm partway through level 3). I actually like Duolingo, but it's not for everyone.ĭuolingo has no romanization once you're past the Hangul. HOWEVER Duolingo is good for if you want to review what you have learned from other lessons. I didn't notice it at the time, but now I look back at the website and notice it. As a beginner who didn't know ANYTHING about Korean, the audios all sounded the same to me. It uses phrases that are NOT used in everyday sentences, such as "the bus climbed up the chair" as a way to catch the readers attention but in reality it just holds you back because you don't learn ways to use it in real life. This can affect the way you speak in the future. This is bad because once the reader actually learns 한글, they still depend too much on the romanization. It relies WAY too much on romanization to teach 한글 (Hangul) from the beginning. I would much rather you learn from Korean Unnie or TTMIK on YouTube. Take it from someone whose been studying for over half a year now that while Duolingo may be great for reviewing it, not as a beginning source.
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