![]() ![]() As a result, I have no problem going shopping or ordering in a restaurant in Japan. It was when I went shopping or out to a restaurant that I was able to use Japanese. My interactions with Japanese people were with friends who spoke English well, coworkers who spoke English, students who I taught English, and people in shops. I had full intentions to learn the language and become fluent. I did very well in that class, and it helped me a lot when I moved to Japan in 2005. In university, I took a class in Japanese and enjoyed it a lot. I had confidence that I could learn languages easily. I didn’t take French in grade 12, but instead challenged the final exam and passed it easily, getting full credit for the class. I studied French in school until 1994, when I was 17 years old. My experience learning languages started in 1986 when I was 9 years old. There are many languages available on that platform, and it continues to grow. I completed several levels of Portuguese then arrived in Lisbon and needed help finding my accommodation and realised I had no idea how to say ‘Where is this street?’ however I could say ‘The sauce boils’.ĭuolingo is good for convincing yourself you’re making progress in a language but until you get out there and try and speak with real people, there will always be something important missing.Ever since I started using Duolingo to study languages, I’ve had a growing desire to learn multiple languages. In my first lesson of Hebrew I was asked to learn the phrase “Is love coming?” Huh? My main problem with Duolingo is that it doesn’t teach the most useful words and phrases. Have they actually tried using what they learnt in the real world? People enjoy the courses because they get a kick out of scoring points and viewing their progress, but they’re just progressing through the Duolingo method. ![]() Their courses are well-loved because the gamify language learning, but I actually feel they’ve gamified it too much. Duolingo is very popular but I have my reservations about how effective it really us for becoming genuinely proficient in a language. Should we get excited about the possibility of Duolingo offering Arabic? I would like to create a Duolingo-like course for Arabic, so if you want to find out when that is available, please leave me your email address.Īnd if you want to learn to read Arabic using an easy method, check out Lesson 1 of Arabic Reading Course. I’ve been running for 6 years and I’m planning to expand to other areas of Arabic learning (outside of just the reading and alphabet). Duolingo have 11 languages ‘in beta’ or ‘hatching’ and Arabic isn’t even one of those. I hate to break it to you, but I don’t think we’re close. Have you got another theory? Comment below or email When will Duolingo start offering Arabic courses? As Will Ward puts it, “try to rent a flat using Modern Standard Arabic and people will look at you like you’re speaking Shakespearian English in Tony Soprano’s New Jersey”. Many Arabic language courses focus on ‘Modern Standard Arabic’ but this dialect is only used in formal situations such as news reports and political speeches, so Duolingo perhaps know it won’t cut it for being useful for everyday usage. Perhaps Duolingo don’t know which to choose and don’t want to offend any particular region by not choosing theirs. There are courses for languages that use different scripts, such as Hebrew and Russian, but they’re much less user-friendly because you are thrown right in at the deep end and shown words in the new script, which are difficult to memorise when you have no frame of reference for the pronunciation.Īnother reason might be the vast array of Arabic dialects. The rigid Duolingo template doesn’t currently feature a method for learning a new script. What could be the reason for Duolingo’s reluctance to jump on the Arabic language bandwagon? Despite this, there is still a real lack of good Arabic learning resources. For example, since 2002 the number of people studying Arabic in American universities has tripled (according to the MLA). The demand for Arabic learning has increased dramatically in recent years. It’s not even in Duolingo’s list of ‘incubator’ languages that are currently being worked on. Duolingo users have been posting on the site’s discussion forums asking for it for years, but to no avail. However, Arabic, the world’s 5th most spoken language, with around 280 million native speakers, does not feature. There are currently 27 available or ‘coming soon’ languages, including some quite niche languages such as Indonesian (43 million native speakers), Hungarian (13 million native speakers) and even Irish. Read a review here.ĭuolingo is arguably the world’s most popular online method for learning a foreign language. 2019 Update: The Duolingo Arabic course has finally launched. ![]()
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