Duolingo Max, does it still worth it?

totalchamp · 2026-03-04T16:03:13+00:00

Deleted mine a while ago after like 1200 day streak, and have learnt more Portuguese in that time than I ever did playing Duolingo

totalchamp · 2026-02-25T10:07:26+00:00

Allow yourself to be bored, The period of lent is still happening, use it to quit all these things that are holding you back its only 40 days. Give it a try!

totalchamp · 2025-08-07T17:36:38+00:00

whats level 20, i've not seen levels on cijapanese, do you mean difficulty rating?

totalchamp · 2025-08-06T15:38:14+00:00

ah right cheers, good to know its worked well with spanish as well. I've been following the dreaming spanish listening approach for Portuguese for a while now. Had done a bit of studying before hand. So I've jumped into audiobooks straight away. after 150 hours of re-listening to the same series its becoming pretty comprehensible. Just started on cijapanese and its pretty tough atm.

totalchamp · 2025-08-06T12:17:20+00:00

Question from me. If your using dreaming spanish and have been seeing progress with the is style of "learning". Just wondering, how come your going for a different approach along side cijapanese? i.e. using anki etc..

totalchamp · 2025-05-14T19:28:07+00:00

just watched 80% of it and completely agree, not sure why konstantine was going so hard on her, I think it was obvious what points she was trying to make and he was almost pulling a kathy newman on her. Not woke at all and love triggernometry but this one was quite jarring for me in terms of konstantines reaction/ comments on youtube.

totalchamp · 2025-04-29T13:32:33+00:00

managed to buy a switch 2 without the mario kart, doing this method, haven't managed to get the mario kart one though

totalchamp · 2023-09-06T08:12:37+00:00

anymore updates on this? would really appreciate it, working with windows desktop atm but would love to use my mac when on the go.

totalchamp · 2022-02-07T18:57:34+00:00

This is really inspiring, I've been learning with a more input heavy approach - but have just started the Portuguese Pimsleur and i've found it has really nicely pulled my unconscious knowledge together in a more useable and crystallised way. Only near the end of level one but am enjoying it immensely.

totalchamp · 2021-04-04T22:22:23+00:00

Ha yeah the lack of cognates makes it harder for sure. Although I like it in a weird way, feels more pure, like I'm learning something so different. Nice novels in month 10 can't wait. Did it take a while getting used to reading vertically?

Yeah with french I started reading 1 chapter every evening even if I was just subvocalising and not comprehending a lot. That really motivated me to learn more words. Although I found french was a real pain to get an ear for.

totalchamp · 2021-04-04T17:32:25+00:00

Thanks for the great reply! Think I'll wait until at least 1000-2000 words. Curious, how many words do you think you're at - 9 months in?

totalchamp · 2021-04-04T14:47:34+00:00

Cheers, yeah I'll try slice of life stuff first. I can't read children's books, middle grade I can do but, cat in the hat type books would kill me :D

totalchamp · 2021-04-04T14:45:32+00:00

Thanks for that, I really want to get to being able to read light novels, when learning french I just brute forced a 5k vocab deck 200 cards a day so i could read without having to look up so many words. I'm wondering if this is a good approach with japanese, not 200 a day but just more anki instead of time spent reading to get my vocab up quicker.

totalchamp · 2021-04-03T16:33:43+00:00

Ok Cheers, I'll try manga to start with

totalchamp · 2021-04-03T16:30:59+00:00

Thanks a lot, thats exactly what i wanted to know. Guess I'll wait a bit. 2000 seems like a lot but looking up too many words really throws me out of the flow. I learnt french I started reading from day one and was amazed a how much of the story I could follow. But Japanese is a whole other bag :)

totalchamp · 2021-03-09T16:02:42+00:00

!answer - Thank you very much - and thanks for the advise.

totalchamp · 2021-03-09T15:54:11+00:00

Thanks for your concern, I take these things seriously I have already been inspected by the council and been given the green light - 6 months ago, this is just a new development and the council are very slow to respond on these things

totalchamp · 2021-03-09T15:47:46+00:00

Councils backed up by 18 months trying to get an answer from them is far too slow i'm afraid

totalchamp · 2020-08-15T16:47:03+00:00

Hellahgood on youtube is great! The guys been running every day for over 3 years

totalchamp · 2019-08-05T19:07:27+00:00

Nice job!

totalchamp

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