DUOLINGO

FIRST IMPRESSION REVIEW My achievements  What do I like and don't like about this practice? I LIKE C The gamification aspects and quick lessons provides enough of a push to get  people to study when          they might not otherwise want to. C    It’s free. C    A clean and technically well-designed product. I DON’T LIKE D    A large part of the lessons are spent matching sound to pinyin and pinyin to characters. Then, all of a sudden, they expect you to know the meaning of vocabulary without ever teaching it. D    Tones and pronunciation are pretty much completely ignored. D    Recordings for more than one character end up being very choppy and unnatural sounding. D    Even if you complete the course, I doubt you’ll be able to communicate in even the most basic ways. D    Translation exercises don’t include enough variations of correct answers. What are the major parts of this pract...