4 YEARS of Japanese Duolingo - What I learned

After studying Japanese on Duolingo for over 1500 days straight across 4 years I talk about my experience with it. How useful Duolingo is, the benefits and the flaws and how fluent you can really become.

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[StarNova]

This video has such a high production quality! The animation, narration, pacing and your way of telling a story seem like your channel should be in the thousands of subs. Glad the youtube gods provided me with this gem. Keep it going man!

[blackveilblasphemy]

ive been doing the japanese duolingo - it's convenient because it forces me to practice reading and listening every day. good video. your voice is beautiful and soothing to listen to <3

[teojoon]

really entertaining video and i totally agree on duolingo being used as something to add to your learning rather than it being the only thing you do

[pinochet]

As someone who "started" learning the language several times and only picked up pieces for quite some time, Duolingo was helpful in getting me to consistently dedicated time in a routine manner. I kinda knew Hiragana, but I would frequently forget and confuse them. In about a week of Duolingo I had it down.
The number one thing people should do is set realistic explanations. Duolingo is bad a teaching you languages, but it can be helpful for practicing them.

[explodingmicrowave.]

DUDE this is honestly super well made!!! I love the quality of EVERYTHING on here!! You have the quality of story telling and animation that these artsy story telling channels with thousands of subs have, dont give up! I also reccommend posting shorts as it can get u popular aswell :3

[birdwithsocks]

This reminds me, I've gotta do my Duolingo today 😆

[Aritayaki]

I’ve been learning Japanese from Duolingo for about a couple months now. It really does help a lot as I now know hiragana, katakana, and wayyyy more Japanese (as I only knew ありがとう and かわいい before like any English speaker) I’ve tried many other things but none of them can keep me motivated with the same free benefits so I usually watch videos to help explain! Also I use the newly added duolingo feature to at helps you learn kanji. This is a great video too

[kyleethepug]

Okay, when I looked at how many subscribers you have I was sooo shocked. The quality of this video is HIGH! Like I would've expected you to have like 100, 000 subscribers, not close to how many I have with my crappy little channel lol. Please keep doing what you're doing and don't give up! You just earned another subscriber!

[Mike-svnu]

Days don't count, hours do, quality hours.

[nathanbeer]

When I visited Japan for the second time I came prepared and studied Duolingo a few months before the trip, and in one temple we had a tourist guide who explained everything about that temple and when she pointed at the kanji "一" she asked us if we know what it means I said itchi, then in shock she asked if I speak Japanese and I said
Ano, nihongo o sukoshi hanashimasu.
There were other times a spoke a bit Japanese there like "otearai wa doko?" But that was the best experience.

[taylorlingwall]

Super high quality video! Great thoughts

[ademideadegoke]

This video was so good that i basically had to sub. I wish you the best of luck in your youtube journey ♥️

[languagewhorder]

Great video! I love the animation and the sound quality were top notch. Thanks for sharing your Duolingo experience. I agree it's a great suplement but not the only thing you should do. I was very sad when the PC version was no longer heart free and don't use it as much anymore.

[PelvicGaming]

I've been doing duolingo a little over a year now! (Feb) and honestly I love it, it really helps me memorize vocab - I DO agree that it sucks at 'teaching' and explaining why things are they way they are. Thankfully! I use Hello Talk and I've met SOOO many wonderful Japanese people who explain certain terms and vocab and why and how they are conjugated!

Also I had NO IDEA Duolingo used to have fourms! Such a shame they took that away!!

Anywho, great video! And I'm going to Japan at the end of this month for the first time! I don't know much Japanese but I'm hoping while I'm there my understanding gets better! (Understanding is my weakest part) I enjoy speaking it...even if I speak SUPER slow and stumble a lot haha.

[thebrightcube]

Great video!
Another 2 things I like about duolingo is the kanji practice section has actually helped force me learn both stroke order and just memorizing Kanji. It's just made me read subs and translate sentences so much easier by constantly practicing.
The 2nd thing is the competitive aspect. The leagues and being in the top against your peers helps my spirit and I just want to see my name in the top of the leader boards. It also helps getting XP boosts from your friends and doing quests together.

That being said, I also studied way beforehand going to in-person classes in my area as well as reading the Human Japanese Beginner and Intermediate textbooks.

[DDR]

i’m really surprised your channel doesn’t have more subscribers, your videos seem really well made.

[TheManagerx]

Thank you so much this is very insightful.

[bluerious]

In my experience, the Spanish course does have the guidebooks for grammar that explain the rules pretty well in my experience. Currently I’m using Duolingo Spanish while taking a Spanish course in my university, and I’ve actually been slightly ahead of my university course with it, though I have been wanting to pick up Japanese at some point and likely will supplement a lot more resources with my Japanese learning than Duolingo since I am aware it’s much less fleshed out than their Spanish course. This is a very insightful video, though, and I’m glad to know that the course is a good way to start learning and implementing Japanese!

[lpa_]

Yeah I started learning in 2019 katana and hiragana on duolingo, forgot it all. In 2021 I did the same as you and just wrote it over and over and even tho I didn’t consistently study since, I can still read all of them

[trinitywaterhouse]

The video is so good I was genuinely shocked when I saw you had so little subs! You deserve more, love the doodles and very useful