DUO LINGO KIDS FOR ANDROID

Instead, people think that using Duolingo will lead them to fluency. It’s better than wasting time on social media or staring off into the distance at the DMV, waiting for your number to be called.

In a perfect world, people would use Duolingo in passing to brush up on their language learning in their spare moments. I will try to explain why its shortcomings can ultimately ruin your language learning journey. If you’re like one of the many people wondering, “Does Duolingo work?” then keep reading. I feel obligated to push back against Duolingo and other “translation as language learning” programs because I think there are far better ways to spend one’s time. Complete disclosure: I have my own language learning program that competes with Duolingo. The web interface can also give access to other resources such as forums, stories, podcasts, dictionary, words and events. The main Duolingo app can take you to a higher level of proficiency to what Duolingo ABC or Duolingo Kids is aimed to do.Īlso, Duolingo is available through a web interface, which for some we find it our preferred learning interface. It is not focused on young children/early readers and writers.Ĭourses are aimed to teach according to the standards of CEFR.

DUO LINGO KIDS FOR ANDROID

(Note: This app is also available from Google Play, for Android devices.)ĭuolingo, the app, is designed for anyone to learn a second language. Our curriculum includes sentences and expressions that children can apply in their daily lives - in this way, they will gain a great advantage as they begin to develop their bilingual skills. aimed to introduce a learner to their first experience of reading and writing.ĭesigned for early readers and writers in English to begin learning Spanish, French, or English.to practice reading and writing in English.Unfortunately, it isn’t a viable replacement because it won’t teach grammar - even the implicit information about grammar is extremely simple.Īs far as I know, Duolingo has 3 different apps available on iOS Apple. One hope that I had was that DuoLingo Kids would be a replacement for the normal DuoLingo application, because a friend of mine found DuoLingo too hard. Currently it only supports English, Spanish, and French. My assumption is that the latter are kind of hard to do icons for, and that learning those words aren't very gratifying.ĭuolingo kids lacks the ability to start part-way through, which makes sense because it pretty much only teaches vocabulary. I think in linguistics jargon they test 'content words' rather than 'function words'. Most of the time, on the Duolingo app, you just choose entire words, but in Duolingo kids, you're sometimes asked to choose the correct syllable for a partially filled word.ĭuolingo kids just focuses on choosing the correct words for things like nouns, verbs, and adjectives, rather than using the correct article ('la' or 'el' in Spanish), or handling words like 'ésta' (he/she/it form of estar, which is one of two different Spanish verbs for 'to be'). I'm not a parent or an expert on children, so I don't know whether the app is sufficiently non-evil to be used by children, but for me it's a welcome change from the ordinary app.ĭuolingo kids has more of an emphasis on spelling than the ordinary app usually does on smartphones. The app (as of May 2019 anyway, maybe it'll turn evil in the future) doesn't seem to have advertising, in-app purchases, streaks (instead, it only records how many days in total you've made progress in the app), or leaderboards comparing you with other people. I assume that this approach has been chosen because the children using this may be too young to be fluent in English.Īnother difference is that Duolingo Kids seems to have taken a philosophy of 'Don't be evil. Using images, rather than translations, is something that's been advocated by Fluent Forever. Rather than being given a Spanish sentence and being asked to translate it into English, or vice versa, it uses icons of nouns, adjectives or verbs - for example, an icon of someone with lots of muscles successfully lifting weights for strong, and someone with no muscle unsuccessfully lifting weights for weak, and an animated icon of someone drinking a glass of liquid for 'to drink'. One of the biggest differences between Duolingo Kids and the ordinary app is the lack of translation.

I've been using Duolingo Kids for a week or three, and have completed the entire course for at least the easiest level, and have been using conventional Duolingo for years on and off.

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