Why I'm Quitting the Japanese Duolingo Course (An Honest Review)

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After having used Duolingo to learn Japanese for 800+ days, its time to say goodbye.
If you have any questions about the course, ask me in the comments, and I'll do my best to reply!
3 Years of Japanese Update video, where I speak Japanese:    • 3 Years of Learning Japanese Every Single Day  

Duolingo is what got me into learning languages on my own. Compared to my previous experiences of having learned Russian and English in school, it was genuinely enjoyable and motivational. However, despite Duolingo being a fun way to get started in a language, how long should you actually use it for, especially when it comes to the Japanese course, in 2021? That's what I tried to answer in this video.

I actually wanted to cover many different aspects of Duolingo as well, such as the direction the company itself is heading in, but I decided to just focus on giving a general overview of using Duolingo as a tool to learn Japanese.


A lot of people have asked, so here are the links to the alternative resources I mentioned in the video:
Refold: https://refold.la/ (A great general guide on how to properly learn a language)
Anki SRS tool for making and reviewing flashcards: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Tae Kim's grammar guide: https://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/
The Core 2k/6k vocabulary cards original source: https://iknow.jp/content/japanese
If you want to get it as an Anki deck, you'll need to Google for it, as I don't want to directly link to them, and the links for it always change as well.
Wanikani for vocabulary/kanji: https://www.wanikani.com/


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