

It certainly seems more fun (and cheaper!) than serious language apps like Babbel. And why not? It’s colourful, it’s fun, it’s like a little 5 minute game. It seems the Green Owl has become one of the (English speaking) world’s most popular language learning apps. Working through 5 repeats of every lesson to finish, I also quickly found Duolingo very repetitive, and I got bored with repeating each lesson five times. Learning ‘fox’ and ‘wolf’ felt irrelevant.

I tried it, but from the very first lessons the vocabulary was weird.

I don’t use or the Duolingo app to learn languages. Whenever people find out I am learning Spanish (or German, or French, or any other language I have spent time learning!), one of the first questions they ask me is “Are you using Duolingo?”.
