If I have a few minutes in a waiting room, idling in the car, etc I can reinforce some basic skills and vocabularies. I think if it was my primary method, I wouldn’t get very far, but I find it helpful because it stresses different words and concepts that the books don’t, and it’s handy. It gets a very bad rap on this subreddit.
I use DuoLingo but it’s not my primary source. This all started from Luke and Duolingo.I’m starting to teach myself Latin and I’m in it a few months. A bit before finding out about Duolingo, I found out about Luke (ScorpiusMartianus) and after all the "psittaci sunt ebri", I started following Irene (Satura Lanx), started being involved in the Latin Wikipedia, joined here and now I'm using Cattus as an app (which I found suggested here some days ago) + latintutorial to better understand grammar and not just memorize countless of abstract endings. I've generally loved the experience in there (although the Latin course could be greatly improved overall as it is lacking even when compared with other languages in Duolingo) and ever since I joined it, I've started being more involved with Latin. The gamifying aspect, the vocabulary it gave you and the the ease with which it presented you the grammar finally gave me something to grab onto. Things took an 180 degree turn when I was presented with Duolingo. All my vocabulary consisted of was from 10 names or so that were used as examples in all the hundreds tables of declensions I had to write down and memorise. I started laughing stupidly once when I looked at my notebooks after having nearly filled 2 of them full with exercises and tables for declensions and I asked myself: How do I say "Hi, how are you?" in Latin and. I had tried learning Latin out of curiosity for 3 years and I always stopped working with it after 1 month because the grammar I got bombarded with everywhere made me nauseated. In my opinion though, Duolingo gets trashed a bit more than it should. I'm currently learning the +999 cases of uses of the ablative in it.
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