![]() No, it's not good for learning Latin at all. Since almost no one is making blogs in Latin, there's a big discrepancy there. No need to go into detail there unless you're interested, but the long story short is that the company is also a translation service and it creates a symbiosis between people who need online content translated and people who want to learn a language. Once again, things may be better now, but I can say with confidence that the system will never be as good for Latin as it is with other languages, because of the way duolingo generates its higher level lessons. It seemed jarring to me, as someone who's done a lot of duolingo courses from the beginning levels. That's not necessarily bad, but it will mean that their idea of starting with simple sentences is. If I recall correctly, there was also a lot of advanced grammar mixed in at the beginning levels. But do you really want to learn the grammar and vocab for buying tunics in Latin, when your goal is to read ovid's myths, etc.? It's not that there's no benefit to learning that, but it seems like it's going out of its way to treat Latin like a modern language that you might use on vacation. The content seemed to be based around the same progression they use in modern languages. That makes sense given the level of completion: they should accept more as time goes on and more people submit other correct responses. Maybe it's gotten a thousand times better for some reason, but all I saw was a hot mess.įirst off, there were lots of acceptable translations that were not accepted.
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