Anyone using the app at least half the days of the week? I'm struggling to keep a few days in a row. DuoLingo has changed and updated itself. I was doing Spanish a few years back while visiting in Spain. I was so proud when I made an order in Spanish. Nowadays, they even have podcasts which they say helps to hear a native speaker.

This month... I'm learning French.  Mais Oui.

My Dad always said to date a girl to learn the language, but I don't think my wife would like that much. Mais Non.

What has been your experience?

Are you learning a language now?

I've used it before and enjoyed it but got too busy, would like to return. Though I also feel I'd benefit more from having conversations with native speakers as I learn better that way.

I watched every series of gomorrah with subtitles & afterwards thought I could speak Italian. I was very wrong. More power to anyone who is multilingual. I am just horrible &/or too lazy to learn another language.

It seems like a good skill to have!

Short answer, no. Would I like to? Hell yes

I personally find Duolingo repetitive to the point of boredom. I prefer Busuu due to how you can get feedback from native speakers if you want, but sadly I don't have money to reload my visa and pay for it due to our current circumstances. Tried learning more German on Busuu and it was pretty good.

I think all of these apps are better as supplements anyway since I think reading pdf's of actual textbooks helped me more than the apps ever could. 

i think its okey just to get some very basics starting. overall i think its pretty bad though

I did try learning a few languages from the app Like Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, etc.

Gave up lol

But it did help in learning some Korean words (while I can read and write it already). Not sure how useful it will be in real life tho

I'm hopeless at learning new languages but that app sounds like a good one

Yup, currently learning French!

I used to duo lingo to learn Italian. Since I already know French, I wanted to learn other Latin-based languages.

Been using it for a bit, but more like in periods. I find some language that I find interesting, keep up the streak of going in and taking a few lessons before I forget about it completely and give up. It’s great for boredom however.

I think as someone said, it's a starting point. True effort will need to be invested in some other venues or in person.

I've tried over the years and it certainly can be a very good help. but as said above, you do need to have that practical experience and practise of speaking it face to face with someone to really hang on to any progress you've made.

Although I don't use them now and haven't for years, once upon a time I did to learn even the basics before traveling so at least can say hi, where is, how much, etc, so never for fluency, more for enough to get around.   I found them helpful as well as sites like polishpod101 and its old similar sites to give enough of a basic knowledge. but found phrases easy of it, but parts of my vocab were poor