Duolingo really is speedrunning dystopia rn.

  • MacGuffin94@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    My understanding is that you won’t get fluent but it would give you up to a middle school level understanding, depending on the language. French and Spanish were more advanced than Mandarin or Welsh.

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      Do you mean middle school level vocabulary? Because I would argue that middle schoolers are absolutely fluent in their native languages. Hell, I think maybe even 9 year olds are fluent.

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        Fluency in a language learning context is not the same as native speakers. The measure is can you pass a 4th grade grammar class in the given language.