I did DUOLINGO for 800 days in a row
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- I held a Duolingo streak for 800 days. After all that time, did it actually work?
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Jag är osten
“I sometimes drink alone”
-Japanese Duolingo
"That banana sleeps"
- Indonesian duolingo
pain.💔
"Excuse me, I am an apple"
" The woman has a fork" ( Italian duolingo)
Oh yeah i had this one
Dulingo be like : "My sister is a girl"
Fr 😂😂😂
Biggest plot twist ever
Mi hermana es una niña lol
literally 🙄🙄🙄
Once Duolingo shows me the phrase "She's not a girl" wtf.
In Norwegian they give you “I am eating bread and crying on the floor.”
I feel like I might actually use that one
😂😂😂😂
Finnish Duolingo: “You are crying and the onion is laughing”. Seriously!
@@Colin-Fenix I think they do that to ensure your attention. It makes more sense though, if the language is in an other alphabet. It's like "this word makes no sense at all, but according to grammatical rules, it has to be at that place".
jeg spiser brød og gråter på gulvet 😩
I got that sentence for the first time yesterday and was like wait, is that right? 🤔😂
What makes Duolingo great is it is fun and motivates you to keep trying.
3 years ago I started learing Spanish using Duolingo, it was pretty funny and helpful app, after that I jumped to different methods, such as traveling to a countries that speak Spanish, waching TH-cam, Spanish movies, and reading books, I consider duolingo as an important starting point.
How are you now???
Upload a video on your channel
Do u suggest me to do those things after i finished the spanish course on Duolingo?
@Juan Andres Vasquez Zapata And what? Now are you able to speak perfect spanish?
Duolingo helped me in school spanish is not a native language for me. Glad I could translate
I am exactly doing that now 55 day real streak. I have got some serious spanish movies and will get movies too
Summary:
- Doulingo is not enough for learning a language. Nevertheless, it is a very helpful way to build the habit of your target language.
- Do not quit Doulingo even if you find yourself able to speak that language. Since, it will open your eyes to some complex structures sentences never will come to your mind simply.
- Do not focus on the meaning of the sentence if it was strange sometimes. Furthermore, try to change it to be close to the situation you need, and even better try to imagine what is happening? Because this will stick the meaning deeply in your brain.
- Encourage others to think of you as an expert of that language so that will create a positive image of you which in turn will lead to motivate you when things go wrong.
The weirdest sentence i got in Duolingo was “The men fall down together at the library.”
yea i got the same sentence from korean lesson lol
yeaah from korean
I got one in German that was like 'she wears clothes' or something
In German it said "A bear drinks a beer."
That's the most russian thing I've ever seen.
LMAO
as a norwegian your swedish is flawless, incredible pronounciation, if that was the first thing i heard when clicking on the video i would have thought you were swedish!
Haha in THIS video? Surely you're joking...
My Swedish is literally 4 or 5 times as good now (pronunciation is also much better).
When I was practicing my Japanese I bump into this sentence called “ he is taking off his clothes now,” and “he is wearing an underwear”
Me: ?.??
Well, I suppose it would be useful if you were writing smut...
Ara ara
@@shoeitchy7613 definitely
Blaze how to add?
I'm also learning Japanese, so far my favorite sentence i got is "Excuse me, I am an apple." 🤣
This gave me a lot of confidence, because this is my third time attempting Japanese, but the first time I’ve actually gone and immersed myself in the language, and I’ve been doing my Duolingo every day as well. I’m eager and excited about learning and still looking for new strategies. Don’t know how long this will last but it feels great!
Me (from Sweden) and my friend (from Germany) are learning each other's languages via Duolingo and it's super fun.
He get sentences like: "Kill him! Otherwise I'll do it!"
While I get sentences like: "The vegetables does not like vegetarians"
Duo is weird man..
Hahaha I had forgotten that "Otherwise I'll do it" one.
Got the one about the vegetables too hahah
Sounds like they're teaching those illegal immigrants pretty well. Communication is important
@@DruidicOrthodox what
Indeed I am.
From Duolingo's Welsh course: "Owen is selling parsnips in the nightclub"
Bahahaha. Reminds me of a James Acaster joke.
Sounds like "pannas" might be code for ecstasy or blow. 😂
Was studying Turkish when I came across "the cow eats meat", I was like "oh so we're entering cannibalism territory now?"
Hehe they sometimes do
le faek Kolay gelsin. Sincere regards from turkey.
LMAO AS A NATIVE TURKISH SPEAKER I WHEEZED
How is that cannibalism?
@@DragonFellowship its basicly cow eating it self-
In my French doulingo I got
"The man is eating a cat"
"I am a pizza"
I did french and I got "the man is eating a cat" one before
The french want the Italians to love them
I got I am a pizza too.
L'homme est un chat
He suits une pizza
(Just practising)
@@Neel-xb1ok just for practice it’s
l’homme mange un chat.
Je suis une pizza! LOL
I’m learning Latin and it’s hilarious literally every other sentence is an innuendo it’s all like: My sister sleeps in the city. Do you want to sleep in the city??
In Indonesian, I got "that banana sleeps"
The echo chamber chamber Latin voices from Ancient Rome! What is my name? asks the confused ghost. Spooky!
It seems like an episode of Maury.
WHO IS THE FATHER
Italian has given me gold such as "they write in sugar" and "I drink the bottle"
In Greek I got Maria, the carrot 💀
I’m so glad I found your channel! Really good information and encouraging stuff!
I'm swedish, where isn't there a Norwegian architect in my bed? 😩
wtf
Bara gå till Norge det är nära
@@screwtapee Jag tror chanserna för att hitta norska arkitekter i sängen är betydligt större i Norge än i Sverige, vilket nog bara skulle förvärra saker och ting för Tora i det här fallet.
@@stekeln sorry i dont speak viking
@@EveIyn29 "I think the chances of finding a Norwegian architect in bed are significantly greater in Norway than in Sweden, which would probably only make things worse for Tora in this case."
I have been using Duolingo for a few years now and would say I'm between level B1 and B2 in Spanish. I do appreciate that I seriously need other methods as I cannot learn proper grammar. I watch Spanish language programmes, listen to Spanish bands etc just to hear the sound of the vocabulary, but I wouldn't have any idea at all if it wasn't for initially using the app. Yes, it's very frustrating, especially when they 'change for the better', removing everything that you loved about it, but it's a free way to learn and can be fun!
I am almost a year into learning Spanish, with duolingo as one of many tools, I must say this guy is spot on. The points on image, and your attitude toward being a speaker is spot on! Must do the ground work.
Thanks Trey. Although, my views towards Duo in the last six months have changed haha. See my latest video on Duo (why I quit a 1000 day streak).
Awesome. One of the best I've watched that reflects an experience of learning languages. Thanks Swedish guy :D
but really, why is there a Norwegian architect lying on my bed?
Duolingo isn't a waste of time. It's more of a starting point. I competed a lot of the basics of Duolingo and was able to uphold a Spanish conversation, after about 6-8 weeks of consecutive learning. I would say as small as 20 minutes/day * 7 is enough to understand some sentences.
After Duolingo I ended up moving to Discord Spanish servers, and just started communicating in Spanish. When I didn't know a word I simply looked up its definition. Real hands on communication with the language is great. And don't worry if you feel! Natives appreciate your effort for attempting to speak their language, unless your learning English - Then most of us just get bothered lol.
In the Hebrew course I got: He imports pink spiders.
Why do you want to study Hebrew?
אתה יהודי או סתם רוצה ללמוד עברית?
@@alolisa113 to read the old testament more accurately
That's actually a growing industry in israel
My favorite Duolingo sentence from the french course is “the bride can’t undress by herself.” 😂
PS: turn up your audio. Had to turn up the volume to hear you then the ad after the video was super loud. 👍🏻
Is this better:
th-cam.com/video/uf-bBqoBfUo/w-d-xo.html
?
(Rhetorical question.)
Excellent video. I am studying Greek since a little more than one year now 400 days in a row and I feel exactly I cannot keep a simple conversation but I also know that it’s just a matter of time to be able to do it, I just need to keep on and continue. I also feel like I need to do exactly as you said, to put myself in the situation like I am really living the moment and put the frase in the context. Thank you for your video.
I'm doing doulingo for the basics, once I'm done with the tree I'll do a different program, I'm also using other apps to build my Spanish vocabulary.
Fair enough. For Spanish I would recommend Rocket Spanish, and the dialogue tracks from SpanishPod101... honestly with a language as commonly taught as Spanish, I wouldn't bother with Duo, but that's just me.
I'm also using Spanishpod101 and Spanish with Paul and a couple of other apps to learn Spaish, along with listening to Harry Potter series on Audible.
Days of French 'n' Swedish What would you recommend for German?
Me gustan las Raspberries. Bonitas computadoras
Hola! puedes preguntar lo que quieras, hablo español pero el latino.
In the Duolingo Danish lesson:
“The boy touched the bear’s red object.”
WTF!?
RED ROCKET!!!
Furries rise up
@@marcianitobailandocumbiareal ÒwÓ
熊のミルクを飲みたい
@@marcianitobailandocumbiareal does that mean "I want to drink the bear's milk"?
@@marcianitobailandocumbiareal 俺は熊だ
karens in non english speaking country : *ENGLISH OR PERISH*
ucu hshd shut up
Yep I know a few of them personally.
Ugu sprtkauzgr eeeeee
To Release is To Resolve what’s your obsession with the name Karen? Are you mentally attached to it?
Right?
This is really eye opening! I’m 27 and NEVER learned how to speak Hindi because I was born in Australia. I’m starting now and I’ve been using duolingo for about a month and it’s been going ok.
the weirdest one i've got was in italian. the sentence was 'the men write in the sugar' and there was also one that wasn't too weird but it was unusual it was 'the water is in the sugar'
I'm an Indonesian learning Spanish from Duo and on my 50th day.
I also think it's a very good start to learn a new language and to build vocabularies. I'm impressed with how my listening skill move so fast in just 50 days with Duo. It's so exciting to watch Spanish movies on Netflix and TH-cam Spanish Learning channels, and I can understand the conversation bit by bit.
Reading the comments here, I feel like I am too easy to pleased by this app 😁😁
I'm not going to quit Duo as my main tool for learning this beautiful language.
Me encanta el español ❤️
I'm on day 31 of learning French and I am very grateful to Duolingo . It's all about the willingness to learn something . Merci Beaucoup!
So you must be more than 3 years in now, right ?
@@rahyan. I took a break then came back to do 435 days then quit again
The volume is very low I’m not trying to be mean but you’re volume is low compared to your other videos keep it up though!
Yeah I know, this is quite an old video and after I shot it, I found out the camera's sound is broken haha. Thanks for the comment. :-)
@@daysandwords Just use an audio editor to equalize and edit volume like an app like Audacity. Thanks for the vids.
@@jestes7 "this is quite an old video and after I shot it, I found out the camera's sound is broken haha."
Well actually no, that wouldn't fix it, because like I said, the camera's audio was broken, which meant that it was CRAZY noisy. So this volume that you hear was already pumped up about 10dB and then de-noised as much as physically possible without getting that horrible underwater effect.
What's more, using Audacity to sort out problems like this (which no longer exist anyway, have you watched any of my videos made since April?) adds about an hour to the whole process, which results in hours I don't have.
What annoys me about this video is that it's my 2nd most viewed, and no one seems to take into account the fact that about 40 of my 50 videos about language learning have almost perfect audio... people choose this one from February to tell me how I should do my audio...
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@@daysandwords Gotcha. You do you man. I'm just a perfectionist and I wouldn't have released a video that didn't meet my own personal standards and would have fixed any issues especially audio regardless of time and a lot of times people here on TH-cam have no idea about audio editing lol. But yeah sometimes I spend way too much on trivial things.
@@jestes7 OK. Check this out.
th-cam.com/video/3LAwk78QS9k/w-d-xo.html
"The dog and cat converse in Korean"
- Korean Duolingo
I took french 1 and 2 in middle school. I was only taking it because I knew in high school, i could finally take a japanese class (i went to a huge high school that offered Japanese, and i had been teaching myself Japanese for 3 years by then, and was excited to take a real class and was fully prepared to leave French) so i ditched it the second I went into high school. Freshman year, I did just that. I went into japanese instead. My family ended up moving across the country my sophomore year and I couldn’t take a japanese class anymore, so i switched into my new high school’s mandarin program, and I really hate it. I’ve spent two years in Mandarin at this new school and I really don’t like it, and I heard the French program was good. In an effort to not have to retake French 1 and 2 in senior year of highschool, i’m teaching myself French this summer. Wish me luck...
Bonne chance
literally story of my life
Bonne chance!
Ganbatte! You can do it! Ja yo.
Loya Frostwind ありがとう，谢谢， merci!
105 straight days through the japanese course and i can say that i agree with all of the points youve said. duolingo has a lot of shortcomings even if you extensively read through the tips cause they are very poor when it comes to a lot of things especially grammar. and the wierd sentences are a good thing frankly since they test you in a pop quiz sort of way like "sumimasen watashi wa ringo desu" which means "excuse me i am an apple". but what i like about it the most is how it made get used to the kanji (chinese characters) system how they give it to you bit by bit until all of the sentences has kanji in them.
but the main thing for me watching this video was if i should buy the plus or not and your answer was enough for me. Thank you.
“That’s an amazing door!” Duolingo Arabic
Got to day 30 when i realized duolingo wasnt that good, lingodeer, busuu, babbel... all better and more complete.
Having said that though, duolingo does have some pretty rare languages. (hawaiin for example)... or klingon... if thats your thing.
I learned more in a week of busuu then a month of duolingo.
(duolingo can be used 100% free though, so there is that...) but with duolingo you REALLY need to take the stuff its giving you out into other methods to practice. (oh and the new heart system screws you over)
Ironically I "hearted" this comment.
Are one of those aps good for learning asian languages like chinese, korean and japanese?
I tried Babel, didn’t like it
@@allison2522 the heart thing really puts a stop in your interest when you on a role. I finished the german tree in less than 6 months when they didnt have this and even passed the basic german exam using just duolingo. Im doing norwrigan and russian and the heart thing stress me out
I am using Duolingo and Pimsleur to learn German. Eventually I'll get to watching TV. I have tried but even though I recognize some words I struggle. But I am determined to get there. I do have super because I got a discount via Amex offer. No ads is good.
This man is brilliant. I love your insights into language learning as a whole.. subscribed.
Thank you!
What a lovely comment. Trying for a few more videos before I go back to work in January!
I just started learning Korean.I am from Czechia so I practiced English a bit,so it would help me,but I got bored and decided to start learning Korean for a little bit of fun,now I am having an 94 day streak!!
Plot twist:
Perhaps Duolingo just has access to your phone's clock, and when you open your phone between 1-3am, Duo gives you creepy messages as a Joke
You're the first TH-camr who genuinely convinced me to like your video!
800 days is almost 3 years! Congratulations for achieve it... :O
I did give up from Duolingo with 22 days. xD
In Japanese i had a sentence that translates to "He took of his shirt and rode a bear"
Florida man
when I clicked on this the first thing that popped up was a Duolingo ad I almost thought it was him teasing us but it was an actual ad lmao
I speak Swedish, French and English too what a coincidence
Sweet!
Announcement coming very soon about French but... still...
Two best things about Duolingo:
1. It's the best springboard for learning almost any language and get you actually believing you can learn any language - for free.
and
2. It's a great accountability tool for you to touch base with daily once you're moving on to more in-depth learning or just to pull you back in to language learning if you lapsed.
I had actually lapsed on learning Spanish until very recently, and jumping back in to Duolingo after about a year, I was amazed at just how much Spanish I still remembered! It's spurred me to get back in to learning the language, and take it even more seriously. That's great!
I am glad you are balanced here. You are saying that Duolingo is useful up to a point, but quite limited. I have used Duolingo for a total of 200 days. It does help reinforce what I am learning through both Buusu and Memrise. I am not using only Duolingo. At some point, I will drop Memrise and use Memrise and Bussu plus maybe Yabla. Duolingo is helping me think more in French and Spanish. You are correct that Duolingo is trying to teach you to think in patterns and understand the grammar through the patterns you encounter. I also do repeat the sentences out loud in many cases.
TH-cam algorithm please suggest me more videos like this
"The horse ate the holy potato!" "Das Pferd hat die heilige Kartoffel gegessen!"
I told my friends I'm learning French and they didn't care...
Oh well still motivated to learn it though :)
It's a very nice language. Bonne chance!
@@ThomasvanLoon05 Merci, mon ami.
@@shimaliedirisinghe2008 ça va , t’as avancé ??
I speak Spanish already I just Moved to italy and I’m using duolingo and Italianpod101. Spanish is helping me a lot in learning Italian
Very helpful video! Thank you so much!
With that thumb nail to had to click
This is a great video... Thank You for the inspiration
“I thought you loved me.”
-Portuguese Duolingo
I stuck with Duolingo in order to refresh my German only to find myself shut out when I'd finally got to a stage where I was learning rather than being driven mad by their horrific misuse of both English and German.
"It is thought that that bear did something corrupt" -Duolingo
Hungarian Duolingo is seriously obsessed with flying kindergarten teachers.... I love looking at the comments about other weird sentences they give other languages xD
My friend was learning to flirt in french and he got 'I want to live in your shoes'
I'm learning French on Duolingo and found that it's helped me a lot in thinking in that language. As i'm also learning Dutch on there i've come across strange sentences like De Olifant eet de appel.
I’m learning Swedish on Duolingo, and I think it’s fantastic!
“Maria, the carrot” - Greek Duolingo
Great Video. I’m currently relearning French with Duolingo and sometimes I learn a little Dutch. I live near the boarder to the Netherlands and as an native German speaker it is fairly easy. Ah, well French, because I had to learn French for the Abitur and nearly flunked it. Now I want to get pretty fluent in French. I find Duolingo very helpful to get started.
Great points about changing our mindset.
I think Duolingo is like a backbone to the language. It can get you fluent only because when you’re more advanced you will be tempted to look in language books and watch TH-cam videos spoken in the language you’re learning. So Duolingo won’t get you fluent on its own but if you enjoy it you’ll look at other sources of the language in addition to Duolingo. So I guess it works. It’s like if you do a degree in say Biology you will not get a very high grade if you only revise what you were taught in lectures. You need to read around the subject and dig deeper yourself then you can supplement the basic learning and get a good grade.
I use duolingo to learn Korean but it never teaches you grammar, particles(which they have a lot lmao), consonant assimilations, sentence endings, and all kinds of different rules(not to mention infromal, formal, honorifics). I use it to practice what I learn outside of duolingo as well as help me improve my vocabulary.
The only two steps to learn a new language:
1. Finish the Duolingo tree
2. Watch movies of that language
Um, no.
You can skip that first step.
You are the only person on youtube I have seen to not shit on Duolingo.
I'm in no way fluent in French, however, Duolingo is where I started, It taught me things I never knew and was easy and challenging at the same time.
Duolingo is not bad. It's not the best, but saying it has no purpose in contributing to ones language learning is merde d'un cheval!
“I am the cheese.“
- norwegian duolingo
My dog is elegant
- Spanish Duolingo
The Dragon came to my house, did he?- Welsh Duo lingo
I just made a whole video of these:
th-cam.com/video/UtiDUBmpHYg/w-d-xo.html
Currently learning French on doulingo. Its fun but I feel like im learning how to read words in french more than actually learning how to say them XD
I used Duolingo to learn the basics, then I bought a book and tried to watch raw anime and read raw manga, the best way to learn language is first learning basics and exposing yourself to the language you want to learn
Duolingo said "duolingo is good"
I was like "I'll be the judge of that"
Duolingo gives you the foundation for you to learn a language easier
another great thing about Duolingo is that the weirder the sentence is, the more I will remember it, the more I'll learn from it. I'm currently studying Norwegian and there are a LOT of sentences that come from song lyrics, movie quotes or that are just outright hilarious like "my uncles are bears". I don't know if the people who developed these courses do it on purpose, but I have the feeling that using humour is helping.
Nice job my man
Amazingly made
Omer has a beautiful door
-Arabic Duolingo
Missed a spanish lesson and when you open your door duolingo is there
Just started learning Scottish Gaelic in Doulingo. Hope it helps
My favourite was:
My spider eats your flies
Mine said "you put salt in my coffee i want a new coffe but add salt in it"
That smells suspiciously like AI... which, given they partnered with OpenAI and recently laid off 500 staff to be replaced with AI, doesn't surprise me at all. It's almost like AI still isn't ready to replace people.
This guy reminds me of the dude who always has this comeback:
*" I don't care that you broke your elbow"*
In my Latin course, there was a sentence to translate: „The man has a husband.”
There are tons like that. If you were to judge by Duolingo Stories alone, you would genuinely think that it's a lot more common to be gay than hetero.
@@daysandwords Duolingo is lib-left
Duolingo seems to work fine for me at least.... It is certainly a bit slow, but, for me, that’s ok. I definitely wouldn’t recommend duolingo by itself; then it’s pretty much useless, but, if you’re actively consuming media of that language and culture, duolingo can be good paired with that. I wouldn’t rely on either of those completely, and maybe I’ll have to move on to something better in the future, but those two things paired together seem just fine for a slower paced language learning experience. It’s easy to do alongside work, (or school, in my case) and just having a set time and a commitment to practice even just a little bit every day helps. And, as stated in the video, viewing yourself as a speaker/learner (depending on your level) of the language is the key thing here. I have definitely learned more simply by listening/reading than I have from duolingo, but, without it, I probably wouldn’t have learned anything at all. Its a good basis and keeps you motivated, and that’s what’s important.
'You are not the father' was one of my favorites.
I hit the like button straight away because of the intro 😂
At 1:40 you literally explain the law of attrection. This way of 'thinking' not only counts if you want to learn a language. It works with everything! Imagine, feel and believe you already can speak it, or do that with other things you want. And you will get it! :) sorry off topic, but I thought it was nice you said that
I learn a ton by using netflx i have both the spoken words in spanish and subtitles in spanish. I used to have to pause a ton but now I can typically just watch through depending on how much slang there is. Also, the duolingo podcast if you are learning Spanish is amazing. They have a French one as well but I no zero French so have never listened. I have used the Duolingo app but learning that way bores the shit out of me. I just do not like it. I do not use any programs just speaking with friends, tv, and then books and youtube and books again for grammar. I recently got an online tutor to speak more and get corrected and we talk about 90% in spanish.
now I feel bad about my 57 day streak (no fixing streak)
“Ich bin ein Vogel”
- Duolingo, 2020
(German for “I am a bird”)
"Excuse me, i am an apple." -Japanese Duolingo
Doing my Norwegian lessons on Doulingo today and just got the sentence “I want someone to eat cheese with.” I mean same, but still a weird sentence lmao
My Norwegian one is very romantic:
"You are mine and I am yours"
"You and me"
"I love you"
when i was taking basics 2, duo told me i was fluent in german, like ???
Duo lingo be like "juan is a very important doctor at a hospital, he is a dog, he does not drink water, he drinks wine, juan is very elegant"