STOP USING JAPANESE DUOLINGO 🙃

[ebifried]

impress me with your duolingo sentences bc i swear they only teach like “gohan to ocha desu”

[birbolo]

Ok counterpoint, I’m not giving up my 712 day streak

[astrojellyfish]

duolingo is actually the reason I can read hiragana/katakana

[BialyDrozd]

I mean, duo teaches hiragana, katakana, and kanji and also it have folders about grammar for each chapter. Actually it have various helpful options that one just have to find. Spent there more than 15 minutes just spamming those translations and you'll find it really quite nice app to start to learn.
Although specialists states it will only lead to A2 with elements of B1, it's still much better than what you said about it.

[kairos]

Ive been using it for the past 20 days, and it seems okay to me so far. You actually learn how to write and pronounce each letter in hirigana.

[buddyplayz]

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Thats literally the order that duolingo teaches you it in.
Well you kinda choose if you want to learn Hiragana or Katakana first but the point stands

[RohitKulan]

With the not-so-new update, the Chinese and Japanese courses have been revamped to include hanzi/kanji.

[clevererer]

Over 200 days on duolingo japanese and its really working for me esp since i learnt hiragana and katakana before hand

[lilyofluck]

Duolingo is just something to get more experience thinking in Japanese on top of the actually helpful stuff. The fact it's a "game" is the entire point. It's easy to pick up, easy to start, and then when you're done with your duo goal for the day you feel like you're ready for the rest of your studies. Don't tell people to not use tools if it's available. What's worse than learning a language inefficiently? Quitting

[kyliessave]

If you're struggling to sit down and actually learn Japanese like me, Duolingo is very helpful to get a study in for a few minutes everyday. Better than nothing!

[mimiw]

Duolingo actually has you learning hiragana, katakana, and kanji, so I'm not sure what you're talking about on that front. And if you look at it like a "translation game", you aren't using duolingo how it should be used.

[lobmeyer]

You can go into the settings and change it so that there is no romanji. They also regularly stops my "path" so I would practice and learn some Hiragana and an option to learn some Katakana.

[belleducharme]

As someone who uses Duolingo to learn languages I find that it’s not going to be the best and only thing you will need to learn a language but it gives you something to start with. Something that doesn’t make your head hurt. It takes years to learn a language and many different things go into it other than just knowing some words. I don’t think there is anything wrong with using Duolingo but definitely don’t just use Duolingo. It’s important to hear people who are fluent speaking that language if that be people in movies, singers, or people you know in person.

[Dh-hgym]

Honestly if people wanna learn a language or culture they should learn in whatever way works best for them to understand
Learning in general works a lot like math if you find a method that works for you and thats how you understand thats great

[david.bowerman]

Duolingo is a tool. It is not the only tool you should use. For me it has helped me with being able to form sentences and understand them when I read or hear them. There are a number of issues I have with it, the way it treats は and が for example. I translate は as "in regard to" or "as for" but it used it as a substitute for が without explaining that with zero が sentence contains and invisible が.
これは同じです should translate as "As for this, it is the same" but it greatly simplifies it to "This is the same". However, sentence structure, grammar, and vocab are all great. It also has tool to help you learn both Kana. Want to learn Kanji? Wanikani/Kaniwani or other SRS. Want to practice grammar? Bunpro. Want a more traditional way of learning Japanese? Find a Genki textbook. Need something explained clearly? there are many channels on YouTube that dive deeply into the language to explain even the most difficult to understand parts of the language if you know where to look.

[spiele_maus]

I think you haven’t been onto Duolingo for years. The Japanese cours got so much better over the last few months. Of course it’s not perfect but in my opinion it’s pretty good. You can completely turn of Romanji, you can also turn of hiragana subtitles for Kanji. They added a massive Kanji course a few months ago and even have grammar sections nowadays.

[peterclarke]

Never trust language snobs who claim you shouldn't learn a language a certain way.

Do whatever works for you, that fits into your life, and gives you the results you want.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably trying to either sneer at you or sell you something.

[AamiBambi]

Honestly its more of a tool than an entire program for languages

[pohefan]

People learn differently and until you understand that, you won't get it. Duolingo helped me pass my class on Japanese language, its a tool to be used.

[yumeshoujo]

I've been learning japanese with duolingo for >500 days a few minutes at a time. You start with broken romanji, then kinda okayish hiragana and then they keep adding more grammar and katagana and kanji. Keeping it managable to learn at a slow pace. I feel quite confident that i can be a tourist and understood in japan.
They teach you how to write the kanji in the correct stroke order too. I dont know if "野菜ラーメンはいくらですか" is fluent japanese but i do think they understand my question.

Telling me to stop using Duolingo just sounds like an insult to my effort, and it works as an language learning tool anyways.