It's supposed to be hun, right? I like how halfway through the second unit Duolingo is like, "now learn 46 characters in a style completely different to the rest of our teaching mechanic before continuing!"
That's hon, as in book or the second character in the word Nihon (TL Note: Nihon means "Japan")
As someone who's studied Japanese formally and have never had to start from scratch in Duolingo, what do you mean? Does it not even start out with hiragana and katakana?
Ah, so it starts out teaching you using romaji with hiragana underneath; some basic food ordering and the cool student and nice to meet you and then kinda comes to screeching halt.
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But the method of teaching the hiragana doesn't really teach you the language as it goes, it's more of an after thought where they'll sometimes tell you what the word is that you just sussed out the hiragana for. The hiragana teaching mechanic isn't nearly as fun or really feel like it conveys how much progress you're making since it happens in its own section that you have no control over. Like I can't review the lessons for previous characters to practice or anything.
I've kinda suspected Duolingo is better for people who already know some Japanese from elsewhere. I remember when I started we started off learning hiragana right along with basic greetings with hiragana quizzes being a thing every lesson. Of course, I had memorised hiragana and katakana long before then because nerd
I've heard Lingodeer is supposed to be good for japanese, but I've got a streak going in Duolingo.😅 And I did enjoy duolingo when I was using it for spanish, but... idk. I've been thinking about printing out some hiragana worksheets and stuff like that to try and make things stick a bit better.
I learned both hiragana and katakana as a kid in a month or two on my own because I wanted to read the untranslated sound effects in the mangas I was reading
It's supposed to be hun, right? I like how halfway through the second unit Duolingo is like, "now learn 46 characters in a style completely different to the rest of our teaching mechanic before continuing!"
That's hon, as in book or the second character in the word Nihon (TL Note: Nihon means "Japan")
As someone who's studied Japanese formally and have never had to start from scratch in Duolingo, what do you mean? Does it not even start out with hiragana and katakana?
Ah, so it starts out teaching you using romaji with hiragana underneath; some basic food ordering and the cool student and nice to meet you and then kinda comes to screeching halt.
But the method of teaching the hiragana doesn't really teach you the language as it goes, it's more of an after thought where they'll sometimes tell you what the word is that you just sussed out the hiragana for. The hiragana teaching mechanic isn't nearly as fun or really feel like it conveys how much progress you're making since it happens in its own section that you have no control over. Like I can't review the lessons for previous characters to practice or anything.
I've kinda suspected Duolingo is better for people who already know some Japanese from elsewhere. I remember when I started we started off learning hiragana right along with basic greetings with hiragana quizzes being a thing every lesson. Of course, I had memorised hiragana and katakana long before then because nerd
I've heard Lingodeer is supposed to be good for japanese, but I've got a streak going in Duolingo.😅 And I did enjoy duolingo when I was using it for spanish, but... idk. I've been thinking about printing out some hiragana worksheets and stuff like that to try and make things stick a bit better.
I learned both hiragana and katakana as a kid in a month or two on my own because I wanted to read the untranslated sound effects in the mangas I was reading
I recognized a baby crying as AAAAA the other day!