I have decided to take up another language, this time it's Portuguese. I will still be continuing to learn Mandarin, so I wanted to compare the two language apps that I use, Duo Lingo and Hello Chinese.
I have experimented with quite a few language apps over the years, and I've settled on these two because I feel like I'm learning practical applications for both languages. They also both make learning fun and interesting.
HAVE YOU USED THESE APPS? OR PERHAPS YOU HAVE SOME AWESOME LANGUAGE TOOLS OF YOUR OWN? AS EVER, LET ME KNOW BELOW
Yes I used to Duolingo when I was learning Spanish originally. I'm now completely fluent in Spanish by doing my own total immersion method and also doing all of Pimsleur, Rosetta, and everything else I could get my hands on.
Duo was a waste of time. I'm not sure how the Portuguese would be but I have a feeling it's probably quite similar to the Spanish which is not so good.
My recommendation is to watch a bunch of movies in Portuguese with the subtitles on and then find a good forum to talk to people that speak English and Portuguese while at the same time doing Pimsleur and Rosetta if you can.
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Interesting, thank you @jeezle for your comments.
Can I ask though, what didn't you like about Duo? As I said in the video I found it very helpful brushing up my German and it worked for me learning very basic Swedish, and in fact helped me remember some forgotten tenses for Spanish.
I'm going to take your advice with the forum though, not sure where to source some Portuguese films though, or maybe I could find English films that I know well, that are dubbed in Portuguese?
Definitely going to watch Ciudad de Deus again :-)
Cg
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Wow OK, I've just gone onto Pimsleur, I only want to learn the language for fun, I don't have to, so £450 is way too much.
This for me is the main advantage that Duo and Hello Chinese have over a lot of these apps, is that they're free :-) If I ever move to Rio, I'll go for more serious route :-)
Cg
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Well the best way to really learn is using the total immersion method. It's easier when you have a language like Spanish or Chinese than it is with a language like Portuguese. You can actually just go into Netflix and change the audio to Spanish, French, Italian etc.
I think I'm going to make a post about the total immersion method soon. If you look it up you'll find a lot of interesting information.
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Good post sir
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nice info @cyptogee to learn the culture of country understanding of language is mandatory. so really nice and informative post keep sharing good idea. Resteemed & Upvoted
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Two important applications if you want to learn the languag
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