Italian can actually make you fluent, I’m taking the course and just started unit 1 section 2, Duolingo taught me many basics such as “Dov’è la stazione” which is where is the train station, “Vorrei un gelato” I would like an ice cream, and “ho bisogno di una camicia. Devo andare al mercato.” Which is I need a shirt and I have to go to the market.
Exactly I’ve come a long way with the Italian course. I’m on section 3 unit 13 and I understand it very well. Yeah granted a few adjustments can be made. But overall the course is well supported and I’m glad it’s one of the languages that has stories and listening exercises. Plus there was an announcement that they were gonna be adding more sections to the Italian course. They never specified when but they did say it’s getting updated.
@@aidanruiz4796 that’s exciting to hear, I am going to apply to be an exchange student in Italy so I started learning italian about 3 weeks ago and I’m on section 2 unit 1
The way to learn is to use Duolingo first to create the habit of learning and have a fun tool to use every once in a while. You definitely can't make it your main thing, though, as it must be paired by apps or books about the language you're learning.
@@loopsap5909 As if you would know that. I agree with OP Duolingo needs suplimentary material to be effective. If you learn grammatic besides using Duolingo it can be a great tool. Most duolingo lessons are based around some grammar concept but they barely, if even at all, explain that concept to you. If you see what they are trying to teach and look up the grammar concept elsewhere you will have a lot of Exercises for it right then and there in Duolingo. Watching a single video about some grammar concept or reading it up wont make you memorise it. But practicing it immediately in Duolingo does help you understand and memorise it better.
This video is supposed to be about Duolingo courses that will not help you to become fluent, but then you say things like "learning this language isn't going to give you a job" in courses like Valyrian and Esperanto. That doesn't says anything about fluency. I think you should just stick to the title.
As a guy who is halfway in the section 2 of Latin I totally get what you say, I learnt how to say "you hit the angry parrots" but not many comments and questions needed for daily life. The reason I chose Latin is because I had it as a college subject and I didn't know anything about the language, if this is happening to anyone else you should try Cattus instead, it has many less lessons but it goes straight to the point for the stuff that you'll need to pass (cases, declensions, verbs...) plus it's also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
Imagine you walking into a cafe in spain and ready to order cause you learn duolingo All you ended up is “Yo quiero cafe” And the waiter is just gonna speak like a tongue twister
tbh i gave up duolingo after trying it and just took the course in school. The app it's self will start you off on random phrases, and continue the teach you random phrases while letting you fail at grammer. If you want to practice a topic learned its a great tool, as the app focuses on frequent usage and limiting errors. but just using the app on its own is like learning to teach someone to drive a car by saying "just drive" with out telling them any road laws, or how to even start a car.
I'm learning Italian on Duolingo. I'm at section 3, unit 6. I can understand so many words, sentences and phrases. And i can make some sentences on my own. I'm not that fluent YET, but i believe i'll be soon. Duolingo helped me A LOT with Italian... To all learners on Duolingo: If you want to learn a language on Duolingo, you shouldn't be done only with it. Try to search current grammar or word group that you learn on Duolingo on your own. This way, you learn more effective (my experience lol)
What about Afrikaans? Also, as a Welsh speaker, you really have no idea how stupid you sound when you mention that it's not a "reviving" language. It's a language that is used literally every single day.
A lot of languages actually originate from Latin like Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Romansh, Sardinian and other Romance languages and learning it can actually make it easier to learn these other languages.
You’re completely correct about Japanese Duolingo! I’ve gotten to around section 3 and it’s more complex and difficult to figure out than my problems. They teach you a bunch of particles, and don’t teach you how they work. I only use it for vocabulary now.
Same with Finnish. As a native speaker who tried the course for funsies, the finnish you're taught is so far fucking removed from the actual spoken finnish that you're better of learning Latin and still have a more fluent discussion with the French.
@ ,,default’’ is a rather bold term to use, as it is HEAVILY based on the Latin script. Though it is the most common, this causes Esperanto to neglect the existence of other languages, including the second most spoken language in the world: Mandarin.
I usually use Duolingo to learn japanese, but I also watch videos in TH-cam about things like pitch accent, some simple phrases and other ANNOYING RULES :)
I learn Japanese, I know how to say how is the sushi or how is the miso soup or how is the boxed lunch meal set but not how are you or how was your day or what’s going on with you😂
Latin? Is anyone trying to become fluent in Latin? Unlike many of these others, learning only a bit of Latin is actually extremely useful. That said, the Duolingo Latin course is absolute trash. The two people who recorded the voices do not have decent microphones or studios, so there are often background noises, and even where there isn't the volume is extremely inconsistent and worst of all, there are huge silent gaps before and after some of the words.
My personal experience with duolingo (mainly studied Japanese and tried some swedish) is the lack of proper explanation, it says that this sentence is this way and not this way but doesn't give you WHY is it this way. Its not bad to get some vocabulary and try if you are really interested and willing to learn, but that's all. Also it is very textbook-like so when you try to speak, it sounds weird/unnatural. Yes I was in japan for people who wonder
*DuoBingo* : Japanese is the 2nd best Duolingo course to try in 2025 *Also DuoBingo* : The Japanese Duolingo course will never make you fluent, it sucks
Im learning esperanto but not just gonna use Duolingo for it i plan to use books to but also learning other languages to i just use Duolingo for a starting point ik i cant get fluent using Duolingo on its own nobody can
I’m from Hawaii and was born and raised there and this app doesn’t help make you fluent while they do use actual voices that sound like real speakers it really doesn’t help you much unless you like to know the words.
Arabic does not explain anything. Instead of making me memorize words in phrases, it would make me say stuff like “The cheese is wearing fancy clothes”. I was 12 units in and I know how to say hello. I taught myself how to say that. Duolingo also taught me wrong
ʻŌlelo au i ke ʻōlelo Hawaiʻī. Aia Duolingo koʻu kumu. I honestly don’t know why you thought Hawaiian Duolingo was useless, it’s very good at teaching both vocab and grammar and super helpful for understanding other Polynesian languages, not to mention deciphering Hawaiian Common and Constitutional law.
I have also tried to learn Polish on Duo. It's also useless. Sure it tought me words, and expressions, but it didn't say why. I mean it didn't explain to me why the word or the sentencebis conjugated like that. If you want to memorize a language, you need to understand its grammar. Surely, everybody hates it, but without the basics of understanding: "why do we conjugate sentences, idioms amd everything else in Polish" it is completely useless of using Duolingo. I mean, sure the app is built to be "funny" and "entertaining". But in reality all it does is to tranlate, build up sentences and make up words and repeat all over again. After a while if you start learning any language, you realize, that Duo does this process all over again without explaining to you the basic understanding behind the sentence and conjugations.
I am conversational in Hawaiian because of Duolingo. I can watch HI PBS and talk to native speakers. I don’t think you realize how helpful that course is.
Yeah even the best Duolingo courses like french and spanish for English speakers reaches just B2 level ,and they don't teach slangs and most frequent collequial expressions . Instead of improving them , Duolingo is making new courses like math and music 😂 , wtf . They are mad bro 😂
i'd disagree with your statement about latin. Indeed latin is a dead language. However. Saying that latin is useless unless you want to become a new pope is not right. Latin is still largely used in medicine, and many medicine students might give a try learning at least some basics of latin in duolingo. Sure, they mostly use only words, not a language. But as i say, dont stop with minimum. But instead, try to grow
@@jamesyssen5121 Spanish is the course with the most content (if you learn it from English), as far as I know it reaches the B2 level (B1 at the very least)
Deleted or they will sue you! I just say. It's not like they are going to do it for real right? Like if they did yeah there will be a lot of controversies
this is just another video shitting on conlangs because theyre conlangs. (alongside actual real languages) atleast make your points creative like goddamn this is repetitive as fuck. it shouldnt just be "esperanto is bad ooh why it have 2-25 million speaker and why it so useless ew" meanwhile those millions of people are making friendships/relationships via eo, and might also be getting a job (atleast in my country you can earn some money by propagating eo). so no its not useless
But I became fluent in Latin using Duolingo!
Did you actually?
There is no point in learning a dead language who will you speak it to?
@@duo_bingoi was too
@@DPRKredbullSome Churches use it, and it's the official language of the Vatican
Some people learn for fun bro@@DPRKredbull
1. High Valyrian 0:19
2. Hawaiian 0:53
3. Italian 1:25
4. Welsh 2:03
5. Japanese 2:35
6. Latin 3:11
7. Esperanto 3:37
Italian can actually make you fluent, I’m taking the course and just started unit 1 section 2, Duolingo taught me many basics such as “Dov’è la stazione” which is where is the train station, “Vorrei un gelato” I would like an ice cream, and “ho bisogno di una camicia. Devo andare al mercato.” Which is I need a shirt and I have to go to the market.
Exactly I’ve come a long way with the Italian course. I’m on section 3 unit 13 and I understand it very well. Yeah granted a few adjustments can be made. But overall the course is well supported and I’m glad it’s one of the languages that has stories and listening exercises. Plus there was an announcement that they were gonna be adding more sections to the Italian course. They never specified when but they did say it’s getting updated.
@@aidanruiz4796 that’s exciting to hear, I am going to apply to be an exchange student in Italy so I started learning italian about 3 weeks ago and I’m on section 2 unit 1
Best of luck to you brother. I’m sure it’ll be an experience to remember. If you want I could help you.
Knowing directions is fluent?
@@aidanruiz4796 thank you
The way to learn is to use Duolingo first to create the habit of learning and have a fun tool to use every once in a while. You definitely can't make it your main thing, though, as it must be paired by apps or books about the language you're learning.
As if you can speak more than 2 languages.
@@loopsap5909 Yo creo que no puedes hablar dos idiomas tampoco. Makemake ʻoe i “get a life.” Momona mua kou makuahine.
@@loopsap5909 As if you would know that.
I agree with OP Duolingo needs suplimentary material to be effective. If you learn grammatic besides using Duolingo it can be a great tool. Most duolingo lessons are based around some grammar concept but they barely, if even at all, explain that concept to you. If you see what they are trying to teach and look up the grammar concept elsewhere you will have a lot of Exercises for it right then and there in Duolingo. Watching a single video about some grammar concept or reading it up wont make you memorise it. But practicing it immediately in Duolingo does help you understand and memorise it better.
Well, я говорю по русский,tambien Español, en embeetje Nederlands @@loopsap5909
This video is supposed to be about Duolingo courses that will not help you to become fluent, but then you say things like "learning this language isn't going to give you a job" in courses like Valyrian and Esperanto. That doesn't says anything about fluency. I think you should just stick to the title.
"Dov'è la stazione" is one of the first locational phrases you learn.
Where is the station in Italian lol
well this can be common question and station is often starting/ending point of the trip so it makes sense
I have a welsh friend in school, he listened to the welsh speaking in duolingo, and told me it was completly wrong
mae gennych chi ffrindiau gwirion!
As a guy who is halfway in the section 2 of Latin I totally get what you say, I learnt how to say "you hit the angry parrots" but not many comments and questions needed for daily life. The reason I chose Latin is because I had it as a college subject and I didn't know anything about the language, if this is happening to anyone else you should try Cattus instead, it has many less lessons but it goes straight to the point for the stuff that you'll need to pass (cases, declensions, verbs...) plus it's also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
I’m doing the courses so the bird doesn’t come at my door at 3AM
That's wise
The fact that after the moment the video ended, a Duolingo ad popped up immediately 💀
Imagine you walking into a cafe in spain and ready to order cause you learn duolingo
All you ended up is “Yo quiero cafe”
And the waiter is just gonna speak like a tongue twister
tbh i gave up duolingo after trying it and just took the course in school. The app it's self will start you off on random phrases, and continue the teach you random phrases while letting you fail at grammer. If you want to practice a topic learned its a great tool, as the app focuses on frequent usage and limiting errors. but just using the app on its own is like learning to teach someone to drive a car by saying "just drive" with out telling them any road laws, or how to even start a car.
I'm learning Italian on Duolingo. I'm at section 3, unit 6. I can understand so many words, sentences and phrases. And i can make some sentences on my own. I'm not that fluent YET, but i believe i'll be soon. Duolingo helped me A LOT with Italian...
To all learners on Duolingo:
If you want to learn a language on Duolingo, you shouldn't be done only with it. Try to search current grammar or word group that you learn on Duolingo on your own. This way, you learn more effective (my experience lol)
I have become slightly fluent in Italian using Duolingo, believe me I'm NOWHERE near fluent but I can understand so much
The way my face dropped whenever he said Japanese 💀💀💀💀
I don't care about reading I like to speak
How could you forget Navajo?
I did mention it in my video about "7 Duolingo Courses I'll Never Try". Go watch that if interested
3:18 it's used in Catholic churches and in science.
Very helpful for understand old legal records too
French isn't here i won't have a existential crisis now
What about Afrikaans? Also, as a Welsh speaker, you really have no idea how stupid you sound when you mention that it's not a "reviving" language. It's a language that is used literally every single day.
He sounds extremely stupid, anglocentric, and xenophobic. The ai voice doesn’t help.
This felt like a video made from chatgpt
A lot of languages actually originate from Latin like Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Romansh, Sardinian and other Romance languages and learning it can actually make it easier to learn these other languages.
The thumbnail is innacurate, im Norwegian and I used the Norwegian lesson for easy XP and I was still fluent
Yeah, but the course itself didn't make you fluent
@@duo_bingo The cross on the Norwegian flag is not supposed to be centered like it is in the thumbnail
I'm learning Welsh on duolingo right now and it's actually helpful, I don't think it can take me to fluency but it's definitely gotten me somewhere.
well, atleast he didn’t mention scottish gaelic 🤷🏻♂️
I finnished the Swedish tree some months ago. I feel like its too short and I can feel like I didnt learn a lot at the latest lections.
You cannot believe how happy I was Seeing Italian I speak Spanish I was stumped Between Portuguese and Italian I chose Portuguese
You’re completely correct about Japanese Duolingo! I’ve gotten to around section 3 and it’s more complex and difficult to figure out than my problems. They teach you a bunch of particles, and don’t teach you how they work. I only use it for vocabulary now.
nah Italian is nice
Same with Finnish. As a native speaker who tried the course for funsies, the finnish you're taught is so far fucking removed from the actual spoken finnish that you're better of learning Latin and still have a more fluent discussion with the French.
He didn't say Polish! I'm saved :D
3:52 actually, esperanto it is considered the most widely spoken constructed language in the world
🤣
Constructed language*
Uhm, NO? Do your research.
@ ok, well IT IS considered the most widely spoken constructed language, and it‘s also the „default“ languagr
@ ,,default’’ is a rather bold term to use, as it is HEAVILY based on the Latin script. Though it is the most common, this causes Esperanto to neglect the existence of other languages, including the second most spoken language in the world: Mandarin.
So I'm currently learning Japanese...
I usually use Duolingo to learn japanese, but I also watch videos in TH-cam about things like pitch accent, some simple phrases and other ANNOYING RULES :)
And im learning welsh
Im och so learning japanese
I was excited at beginning when i saw there is just few units in navajo
And what about the Romanian course?
Will do a vid on Romanian very soon
@@duo_bingo got it, thx
The cross in Norway's flag isn't supposed to be centered
But i did choose a Language but i can speak it fluent and it's German.
But i speak French a bit
I learn Swedish, I know how to say, the man sleeps in the shower, but can’t say what’s your name or count to five?
Hva heter du?
I learn Japanese, I know how to say how is the sushi or how is the miso soup or how is the boxed lunch meal set but not how are you or how was your day or what’s going on with you😂
I know the basics of welsh and duolingo welsh is easy for me but i just think it's because I'm welsh😅
Latin? Is anyone trying to become fluent in Latin? Unlike many of these others, learning only a bit of Latin is actually extremely useful.
That said, the Duolingo Latin course is absolute trash. The two people who recorded the voices do not have decent microphones or studios, so there are often background noises, and even where there isn't the volume is extremely inconsistent and worst of all, there are huge silent gaps before and after some of the words.
I was expecting you to say"instead use meme rise, bable or ling for fluency"
1:25 not approved! 999+ missed calls from lionfield!!!!
I came expecting a lazy ai video and got a well written, succinct video giving solid advice. Damn.
Yep you are right. Even in the Spanish course, you are learning useless sentences like “La mujer bebe agua”: The women drinks water
So women cant drink water now?
@@loopsap5909 He means the sentence “La mujer bebe agua” is useless. Literally no one is gonna say “The women drinks water” in real life.
@@S64C fr they need to add something useful
Yaalllah
@@2016RobloxExcept a Spanish Grammar class, which is the level at which those sentences are aimed.
Bro one of his new year language adventure was Japanese after trying it for six days he got one of the worst experiences.😂
I used Duolingo trying to learn Japanese for 107 days before i was like:
"Hold up... This shit is ass actually!"
fun fact: latin also has 2 different pronouciations: classical and post-classical does duo lingo teach you that? i dont think so
My personal experience with duolingo (mainly studied Japanese and tried some swedish) is the lack of proper explanation, it says that this sentence is this way and not this way but doesn't give you WHY is it this way. Its not bad to get some vocabulary and try if you are really interested and willing to learn, but that's all. Also it is very textbook-like so when you try to speak, it sounds weird/unnatural. Yes I was in japan for people who wonder
I thought its duolingo but its duobingo
I mean I learned the basics on English with it and then just watched content and tv on English subtitles, after some time I got a really good English
I just got an ad duolingo at on this vid.
*DuoBingo* : Japanese is the 2nd best Duolingo course to try in 2025
*Also DuoBingo* : The Japanese Duolingo course will never make you fluent, it sucks
Well... I still think Japanese is one of the best ones out there, but it won't make you fluent because the language is too hard
I was usin duo to start to learn japanese.it makes starting easier after i am familiar with languege i will change it
Im learning esperanto but not just gonna use Duolingo for it i plan to use books to but also learning other languages to i just use Duolingo for a starting point ik i cant get fluent using Duolingo on its own nobody can
What about Yiddish
Esperanto has lots of words that spanish and many other languages idk know em can understand.
But its easier to learn for some people than others
I’m from Hawaii and was born and raised there and this app doesn’t help make you fluent while they do use actual voices that sound like real speakers it really doesn’t help you much unless you like to know the words.
Can i become fluent in arabic duolingo
Arabic does not explain anything. Instead of making me memorize words in phrases, it would make me say stuff like “The cheese is wearing fancy clothes”. I was 12 units in and I know how to say hello. I taught myself how to say that. Duolingo also taught me wrong
what voice do you use for it
Bro im fluent in italian
Duolingo czech 🙏💀
Already made a vid on that
@@duo_bingoyou know. Duolingo japanese is a disaster. But a language that has a grammar harder and more complex than japanese is a... damn
I think the biggest problem is that they’re too easy.
ʻŌlelo au i ke ʻōlelo Hawaiʻī. Aia Duolingo koʻu kumu. I honestly don’t know why you thought Hawaiian Duolingo was useless, it’s very good at teaching both vocab and grammar and super helpful for understanding other Polynesian languages, not to mention deciphering Hawaiian Common and Constitutional law.
Arabic? Literally half the course is learning the alphabet. You barely learn anything
This video screams AI generated. At least the voice. Every pronunciation is so unnatural and fake, in no way does it sound like a human.
The voiceover and a few images in the video were indeed AI-generated. Hopefully it didn't come as a detriment to the watching experience
@duo_bingo it very much did
@@duo_bingoThe self assuredness and condescension didn’t help either. Nor did the superficiality of the content.
I have also tried to learn Polish on Duo. It's also useless. Sure it tought me words, and expressions, but it didn't say why. I mean it didn't explain to me why the word or the sentencebis conjugated like that. If you want to memorize a language, you need to understand its grammar. Surely, everybody hates it, but without the basics of understanding: "why do we conjugate sentences, idioms amd everything else in Polish" it is completely useless of using Duolingo. I mean, sure the app is built to be "funny" and "entertaining". But in reality all it does is to tranlate, build up sentences and make up words and repeat all over again. After a while if you start learning any language, you realize, that Duo does this process all over again without explaining to you the basic understanding behind the sentence and conjugations.
Wait, you said high valyrian but forgot klingon?
Half of the Video is about the language without having to do anything with the language. I decide if I find it juseful to learn a language or not.
I never heard of half of these languages.A least I’m not wasting much on Russian.
Italian is good but I don't think it will make u fluent on duolingo
Yeah, I'm almost done learning it and your correct, I am nowhere near fluent, but I can have a very detailed conversation with people!
I am conversational in Hawaiian because of Duolingo. I can watch HI PBS and talk to native speakers. I don’t think you realize how helpful that course is.
Hooray i'm learning Dutch
Same! I used to, at least.
Well, here is my thing here are the rain just I wanna work for fluency is probably gonna be Spanish German and Norwegian
2:36 my sister is using this course
Tell her to stop ASAP
@@duo_bingo she hasn’t done it in a couple of days
Yeah even the best Duolingo courses like french and spanish for English speakers reaches just B2 level ,and they don't teach slangs and most frequent collequial expressions . Instead of improving them , Duolingo is making new courses like math and music 😂 , wtf . They are mad bro 😂
Good you didn't include norsk
so i found this duolingo ripoff called Air learn
instead of a green bird its a blue cat
can you check it out? i think it wont teach languages well
So all Duolingo courses
Well yeah...
You know me an anime lover, bro if you practice youll be fluent and you havent done these courses. I do japanese
i'd disagree with your statement about latin. Indeed latin is a dead language. However. Saying that latin is useless unless you want to become a new pope is not right. Latin is still largely used in medicine, and many medicine students might give a try learning at least some basics of latin in duolingo. Sure, they mostly use only words, not a language. But as i say, dont stop with minimum. But instead, try to grow
Is doulingo good at learning Spanish fluently
Not to get fluent, but pretty good to get started
@@jamesyssen5121 Spanish is the course with the most content (if you learn it from English), as far as I know it reaches the B2 level (B1 at the very least)
@@duo_bingo I tried it with French and no. It doesn't sound like the French im use to.
Then tell me what does this mean: "¿Cómo cómo como?" (yes, it´s correctly written)
I'm so lucky to not using duolingo and use Google translate 😈😈
What's wrong with Google Translate?
*I just want to be safe from duo*
Did the owl already take your family away 😲
Im learning german
What about Turkish?
Watch my video about the best courses to learn in 2025
Deleted or they will sue you!
I just say. It's not like they are going to do it for real right? Like if they did yeah there will be a lot of controversies
Mi Parolas Esperanton
inthink your starting to make repetetive content, just a little
i can teach Japanese! (also duolingo doesn't teach any language to you really)
this is just another video shitting on conlangs because theyre conlangs. (alongside actual real languages)
atleast make your points creative like goddamn this is repetitive as fuck. it shouldnt just be "esperanto is bad ooh why it have 2-25 million speaker and why it so useless ew"
meanwhile those millions of people are making friendships/relationships via eo, and might also be getting a job (atleast in my country you can earn some money by propagating eo). so no its not useless
and the finnish course. it sucks
Ciao, Привет!
Bonjour
Why can’t you use your real voice?
No one would watch me then
norwegian?
Clickbait
It's actually the best course if comparing its length to the amount of speakers
Yeah, I've just put it into thumbnail for clicks 😁
@@ZoveRen that's good, imm learning it rn
th-cam.com/video/5CB6-jeOc5Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GfEY93kgEHHzxf4u
Nein, das geht nicht