![]() ![]() Duolingo is the fun, free app to download and is compatible with most. By all means use them as a study tool, but just know you are severely limited in what you will learn when it comes to Korean. The Duolingo ABC kids reading app offers over 700 hands-on reading lessons designed to help kids learn and love to read. Duolingo is an app designed for English speakers to learn more than 30 languages. You really need explanations of formality/politeness levels, honorific language, word order, particles, sentence connectors, pronunciation rules and colloquial language that are just not given in the apps if you ever want to grasp the subtleties of Korean and become truly fluent. I've been self-studying myself for a year now and while I see progress, I know that in a classroom setting with a fluent native-speaking teacher and real person reinforcement of the textbooks and written materials I've been studying, I would be so much farther than where I am now. Maybe it's different for languages that are more linguistically similar to English so that the grammar and vocabulary are more intuitive without lengthy explanations, but Korean is just so fundamentally different from English. I would encourage you to use it as an aid, but not your primary source of learning. Memrise offers similar lessons to Duolingo, introducing new words and phrases with flashcards, listening exercises, and more. ![]() You really need context to grasp the subtleties of Korean and that is something the apps don't give you. My friends and I use Duolingo for vocabulary building and repetition, and we have learned some basic grammar from Duo. Honest answer and I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer here as I use a number of different apps for Korean myself including LingoDeer, Mondly and Drops and I'm not saying you can't learn anything from them, but I can tell you without a doubt that they are only good for reinforcing your Korean language learning, picking up some new vocabulary and practicing what you already know. Also, Duolingo is very good for vocabulary and sentence structure, but Core Korean is excellent for listening comprehension and so many good examples. ![]()
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