Duolingo game app - Review

Duolingo.com

 Description: free web based  game, also on iPhone or android. optional paid subscription

Includes 25 Levels of 30+ languages

for English speakers, more from other languages

Sample sentence inside;

    Italian    Io sono una ragazza
    English    I am a girl.

Pros:

• teaches word with gender (il/la)
• some illustrations for early vocab
• uses words in sentences for context
• gamification and friendly competition
• audio files for pronunciaiton (listening)
• stories for some langauges (reading)
• speaking exercises
• writing exercises with vocab selection or typing
• matching vocab exercises
• 5 units is equivalent to 2 years at university

Cons: 

• needs internet access

 DuolingoMe

  As a languages teacher, I have qualified in Italian and French for my teaching degree.

Duolingome - Italienfrancese

I have had some exposure to these languages across my primary, secondary and tertiary education:

• Spanish
• German
• Latin
• Indonesian
• Japanese

I have a personal interest in learning these languages as I have relatives from Wales and Norway.  I have friends from these countries, and/or an interest in learning some of these as I follow some famous celebrities that speak these languages. Now, I am learning some more languages on my own as a hobby, so I am a beginner working at my own pace.

• Norwegian
• Welsh
• Dutch
• Polish
• Danish
• Swedish
• Romanian
• Scottish Gaelic
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Haitian Creole
• Esperanto
• Finnish
• Czech
• Turkish
• Irish

These languages will take me longer to get a start in as they use another alphabet and/or have a lot of accents on the letters to become familiar with:

• Navajo
• Korean
• Swahili
• Hungarian
• Hawaiian
• Arabic
• Greek
• Chinese
• Russian
• Yiddish
• Vietnamese
• Hindi
• Ukrainian
• Hebrew