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Duolingo really is speedrunning dystopia rn.

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[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I found duolingo usefull to start when your proficiency in a language is next to nothing, a good place to start. But it doesn't get you that far in my experience. I moved on to reading books in translation apps, so I have the original and the translation side by side. And I must say, Les Trois Mousquetaires is teaching me a lot of French, but it's also actually a really fun read, it has some hilarious dialogues. So at first I wanted to learn French, now I just want to read the novel. You don't need gamification when the actual content you're reading is good in itself. I've now combined it with the audiobook. Each reading session I start by listening to the parts I read last time. If you pick famous books, the audiobook can usually be found on yt or elsewhere.