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Rosetta stone vs duolingo11/27/2023 I promise you of the 5 million people not even 1 million will complete one language on Duolingo. A lot of them are just checking it out, but most of them have made the decision to learn a new language, and most of them will not succeed. I vaguely remember seeing that Duolingo thus far has had one 5 million downloads on Google play. Yes, and only a small portion of those people put in the effort to see that goal realized. There are a lot more people on my friends list that have played a few times and then stopped than are are people who are sticking it outĮvery day more people make the decision to start studying a language and then search out the best way to do so. It's not a video game you play for a few weeks and then forget about. It's the same with virtually every other product that hits the gates running and had a large buzz around them. It's not Duolingo that will go away it is the novelty of Duolingo that will go away. This is going to help it stick around more than anything else. A huge benefit that Duolingo has is that it's free. I don't think it's popularity will wear out any time soon either. When that wore off it continued to do well. RS had a novelty aspect to it when it came out as well. First, I wasn't saying that Duolingo is a novelty but that it has a novelty aspect, being more or less a year old. Would I reference gender incorrectly, a girl as a boy or vice versa? Do Turks even have gender specific nouns? Do they have a separate word for a group of kids vs a single kid? I have no clue and RS just throwing words at me and pointing at pictures clarified nothing and certainly didn't make learning easier. For example, was I saying "children," "boys" or "girls" when shown a picture of young kids both together and on their own? I have no idea? As I could make no association with what I was precisely saying in connection to the images, I would feel confused in real life. I did the entire demo for Turkish, I had no idea why I was saying anything or what exactly it was referencing. The results were confusing and disastrous. My demo disk came with some more exotic languages like Arabic and Turkish, so I decided to try both. I actually found Rosetta Stone was helpful with German, but then I thought "I still know a lot of German and the rules of the language, how is this program with a language I know nothing about?" Now German is the only language I had ever achieved some level of fluency with after 2 years of college courses, but I had lost much of it due to six years of not using it regularly. I sent away for their demo disk and tried it with German. I also tried Rosetta stone way back before duolingo existed and I wasn't that impressed with it.
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