Quote: (08-23-2015 07:16 AM)Rang off the Pipe Wrote:
Duolingo isn't really great for teaching in the most powerful sense, but it's great to start out with if you're self-studying a language like I have.
No, it's a piece of shit because it doesn't teach how to say anything functional until you're well into the lessons and it takes weeks to get there.
La Mujer
El Hombre.
La Mujar comer la manzana.
El hombre comer una manzana.
Jo comer la manzana.
Tu comes una manzana. etc
The sentence builder isn't sophisticated and doesn't reuse much of what you learned before.
You can be 1/2 way through and get sentences like:
Translate "The shirt is red"
With synergy spanish, the first thing I learned was:
"Quiero ir a la fiesta." - I want to go to the party.
"Necesito ir al doctor." - I need to go to the doctor.
"Me gustaria comer su comida." - I like to eat your food.
I'm half through synergy spanish and am now learning things like:
Queremos viajar a Mexico, pero, necesitamos un coche manejar. - "we want to travel to mexico but we need a car to drive."
Duolingo has you doing useless shit like "The capital of Spain is Madrid." "Democracy is the power of the people."
Maybe you learn some vocabulary but you learn few functional sentences that a person would actually use.