Duolingo ~ My Technology Magazine

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Hi guys! How are you today? Fine? Very good!!
My name is paola and today i talk about this app Duolingo Do you learn English, French, Pontuguese and other lenguages? Perfect!! "what is it?" Ok " read me" lol.

What is Duolingo?
There are a lot of options out there for people wanting to learn a new language, but most of them are either costly, gruelling, or both. Duolingo is as convenient an education tool as we’ve come across, and it somehow costs absolutely nothing.
While it’s got a couple of shortcomings, it’s still a must-have app as far as we’re concerned. You’ll fall in love with it in no time, especially if you’re a keen traveller or just want to pick up something new.
It might make you feel like a child with a CGP science book again, but everything in the Duolingo app is split into bite-sized, easily digestible chunks. You can set your daily learning targets too, and the entire experience is gamified, which we like.

On average, it takes 34 hours of Duolingo to learn the equivalent of one semester of college. As a college professor I'd say that a semester course generally takes a lot more than 34 hours of work (At Carnegie Mellon the expectation is that a semester course takes 9 hours per week for 14 weeks). The study was done by an external research team that previously evaluated the effectiveness of other methods such as Rosetta Stone. It is of note that it took 55 hours of study with Rosetta Stone to reach the equivalent of one semester of college. So Rosetta Stone costs more, but it teaches less.There are also loads of different languages available through Duolingo, including all of the usual suspects and some less mainstream options, such as Dutch, Irish and Swedish. Completely free, too.

What’s bad?
Our biggest peeve is that there’s no option for offline use, which is a pain because this is an app that’s otherwise perfectly-suited for using on the go. You might also struggle to use it on a consistent basis, since it doesn’t deliver daily reminders, despite making you set your learning timetable. A final criticism is that there doesn’t seem to be much middle ground, with lessons flitting between overly easy and bafflingly difficult seemingly at random. On closer inspection, we think this has something to do with the fact that it doesn’t tend to explain the technical details, such as why certain forms of verbs are used in some cases and not others. conclusion There are a lot of anecdotal and marketing claims about the effectiveness of different language learning methods, but there is usually little scientific evidence to back the claims. We wanted to change that, so we commissioned a study to find out how well people learn a language on Duolingo.