Can you actually learn a language with Duolingo?

Can you actually learn a language with Duolingo?

No
t. user

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Yes
t. smart user

more like the basics i think

i always give up on spanish after 2-3 lessons haha

tried the german course. it teaches the basics but not the essential stuff you need to understand the lenguage

No. You can use it as an aid at best

correct me if im wrong but they teach you words but you cant hold a conversation with it

yeah, pretty much
It's very good for building a foundation. Use it as you will, but when you're done, you'll want to move on to something more advanced.

tl;dr it's useful for the basics

I've started learning English with it.
It only gives u the basic things on grammar and vocabulary so you can walk with your own legs. Currently I'm using other tools to enhance my skills with English, but Duolingo has been really essential in my journey.

Faggots

You can't even get 100% 'fluency' on duolingo; they're honest in the fact that you are going to need further studying outside the platform.

How good was your English before starting? And how long has it been?

Also, I tried starting to learn German on Duolingo too, but gave up. I can't deal with MANYYyYyyyy different/new words.
Recently I found out that on Memrise there's a course with all the words of the German course of Duolingo. Maybe one day I go back to learn.

Duolingo is like a match.

It can help you start a fire, but alone it's pretty unimpressive.

No, it's just a way to feel like you're learning a language while being as lazy as possible

Well, before I starting to use it, I didn't even know the verb to be. In short: I used to be a total fool.

They weren't asking about how much you knew about English, but rather how well could you communicate with it?
Hint: most angos don't know what a verb is either.

Sounds promising then. How long has it been? I'm considering learning Spanish.

He didn't say that he didn't know what a verb is, he said he didn't know "to be ".
Which is basically saying "utterly nothing"

LeL, but if I didn't know how to conjugate a basic verb as "to be", how could I communicate with someone correctly?
Besides it, I just knew words like dog, cat, book... you know, what everyone knows.

Inicially I didn't use to be too dedicated, and many times I ended up breaking my learning for a long time, so it took more or less two years, but could have been only one year, or less.

Your English is pretty good. I haven't been too scrutinizing to your posts, but I haven't seen an error yet that a native speaker wouldn't make.

Thanks, user. I try my best.

Can you post a voice sample?

>actually falling for the duolingo meme