And of course this year it was virtual, which enabled me to attend.ĭuocon had many speakers. If you’d guess from its name that it is kind of like Comicon, you’d be right, except that it is for language enthusiasts. (The Chinese tree is probably equivalent to three years.)īy coincidence, a few days after completing the Chinese and Portuguese trees for the first time, Duolingo had its second event called Duocon. I’d estimate that completing the Portuguese tree one time is equivalent to completing a couple years of Portuguese in an American high school. With Portuguese, I haven’t put it into verbal practice yet, but I have a whole lot more confidence I could at least, say, do basic communication with locals in Portugal when I next return to that country for, say, a Camino de Santiago. For example, during the last month I’ve been able to converse with my mom and friends by typing in Chinese only. Those lessons, aside from eventually providing the satisfaction of completing a Duolingo tree and being awarded the virtual Duolingo trophies depicted above, have already paid off in more practical ways. Doing the math reveals how many skills, lessons, and exercises there are: a lot! But since Duolingo “ gamifies” language learning to a great extent, language acquisition is not much more tedious than, say, playing a video game.
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