Anyone learning a new language this year? Which one and how are you planning to approach it?

Been thinking about linguistics/ language learning channel lately to share best practices and whatnot.

I read a lot about how to learn new languages which technics to you bla bla and then my friend told me oh I’ve been doing this Duolingo thing every morning for 5-10 min for two years straight and I’m fluent in Spanish. I didn’t believe her at first but then she started speaking and I was shocked. 😂

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Felt the same for me. I honestly don’t care about the “game” part of it either, and it seemed it’s more focused on that vs teaching the language. I’m only a week in, so maybe I need to give it more time. 🤷‍♂️

Okay I had to reinstall Duolingo just now😅 they have so many languages, even Esperanto?! I think my problem with it was that I tried learning languages I already knew the basics of and it felt kinda useless. 
Will try with Portuguese now (though they only have Brazilian still…). Thank you for sharing!

Needless to say I installed Duolingo and I’m on my 97th day streak. So I replaced my morning Instagram routine with it and it’s good. I also got some friends along the way so we nudge each other when someone is trying to slack.