so far I have used Mango when I had a library that offered it free online for their patrons and currently I use Rosetta Stone the same way, through my library. I like them both.
I am also using Duolingo and like it even better - including the flashcards, which I didn’t find until I’d been using the site for a bit.
a quick google shows there are lots of places - do you have experiences to share? I tried a search to see if anyone had done a thread about this but the search didn’t work for me. >:-(
I’ve been using Duolingo to learn Norwegian through their app and I like it a lot but there isn’t a lot to guide my pronunciation so I am really unsure that I’m saying anything close to intelligibility.
I haven’t yet tried learning a new-to-me language online, but have had good results using Duolingo to brush up on my French and Italian. I plan to try Spanish next to see how it works for me with a language I don’t know.
A friend recommended Memrise. I haven’t done much with it yet, but it’s fun so far.
thanks, I will check it out.
for those using Duolingo, have you tried the flashcards? besides languages they have flashcards for math, history and lot of other subjects.
I tried the cards but haven’t used them extensively. Unfortunately, I have only limited time most days for language study.
I’ve been using Memrise to brush up on my Russian, using the “core” course and a user-made “top 10,000 words” series.
I haven’t used other systems to compare with but things I like include that they have a number of different testing modes - English to Russian, Russian to English, multi-choice, straight typing - and they also use video of real people speaking real phrases. It also gives you some credit if you *almost *get it right. The only major difficulty I have had is that if you use a user-generated practice set and they have made any mistakes or bad choices in their translation pairs (eg having the same English word map to 2 Russian words, and then marking you WRONG if you provide the one that wasn’t in their head!) then you can’t correct that. That may be a problem that could be corrected by going to the paid version - as a person that’s not giving them any actual money I’m sure I’m not high on their priority fix list!