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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know, DD has been trying to learn Russian on Duolingo and it’s pretty cr@ppy (I’m a native speaker). She’s very good with languages in general so I think it’s the app. [/quote]

I think it’s better for reading and listening than talking. I am using it to relearn French (I took in high school but am 50 now) and my ear and vocab recall are getting much better, but it does a crap job of correcting pronunciation.  As a native speaker you are probably highly sensitive to that. [/quote]

I had taken spanish in MS, HS and college—never learning much, but had learned about the basics of pronunciation, so knew what I was supposed to sound like... the test is when my son started with French. His pronunciation was appalling at first, but he's actually gotten quite good. It's not as good as immersing yourself with full-time french speakers, but for a free or nearly free app you can mess around with when you're on the toilet or waiting for the bus, it's great.[/quote]

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