![]() You just have to study, and be able to honestly evaluate yourself and your mistakes. There is no shortcut, no one app that does it all. The simple truth for learning a language is as the author here mentioned: consistent and diligent studying, with humility. I'm still not, because that vocabulary is quite advanced and not really used in regular conversations that much. ![]() For Korean, I wasn't even remotely close to understanding things like news articles at 12 months of study. What I find interesting here is how far one can progress in only 12 months with a language like Spanish or French (with a mother tongue of English). Also describing things beyond a basic level is rough: "I like this, that" vs "The mood of the film was twisted but exhilarating". I can quite easily converse about basic things like me, my hobbies, work, etc for hours but as soon as the conversation delves into a niche like politics or just more advanced discussion, I falter pretty hard. This is where I got after ~12-15 months as well. > On the other hand, since I spent so many hours just casually talking with people, I got pretty good at having generic conversations. Not that a language can be learned from 1 resource, anyways. Not only is this not true, their Japanese and Korean courses were (still are?) notoriously terrible compared to their Spanish and French courses. At the same time, I hate them for advertising themselves as "the world's best way to learn ". > As much as Duolingo likes to tell you this, 5 minutes a day of fumbling around with the mobile app isn’t going to make you fluent. Great for making friends, terrible for seriously practicing Korean. It often devolves into a) "Any korean questions?" or just general conversation. People randomly filter in/out and a lot of people are shy or aren't sure what to do. My conversational ability improved dramatically after doing that for ~1 month. I went to a language exchange that wasn't bad* where I was able to speak for 1 hour with 1 korean person, a teacher, who would point out my mistakes and write down words when I had to dip into English. Classes provide rigidity but having a tutor + finding people to talk with helps you out significantly more. > I firmly believe that learning languages in school, especially in the United States, is generally extremely inefficient. On average a word entry takes ~1-2 minutes (I have to query 3 dictionaries), so that comes down to only ~45 words per hour. It's a good thing a french 5k deck exists also, as they saved a lot of time on not having to make cards manually. ![]() Thinking about 50/day sounds utterly exhausting. I did 20 reviews/day for ~6 months straight for Korean, and that took me 30-60 minutes, every day. This person is really dedicating their time at this point, because 50 new cards/day very quickly snowballs and you're doing 300+ reviews daily. Started consistently covering 50 new words a day on Ankiįor anyone here who has used anki, that's a huge number. ![]()
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