And if you're curious you can also search what you don't know and go beyond Duolingo. Or, at least, thinking how would you say in Norwegian the things you usually say everyday. Of course this way lessons usually take much more time (but, after all, learning a language takes it's time), however, i found out it helps a bit with memorising, and also helps when i need to search for a wordĪlso, try to speak the language daily, and incorporating some words into your vocabulary, even if its just something stupid. I'm using an app but a paper notebook would also work I think.

If you learn like this, don't worry about forgetting every new word within minutes after first learning (that usually happens to me), you'll eventually remember it if you keep practising over time.Īlso, something that quite works for me is to write down words and phrases. I like to learn like this: slowly, one thing at a time. So I'd say that learning from your mistakes is also a very good way to learn. I'm about to start 'level' 8 and sometimes Duo pulls out a word that I haven't seen since the beginning (last week, for example, it was 'appetiser') and after failing to remember/recognize it, I know remember it perfectly. I think that's just how the brain works, it starts to get on long term memory the things you use over time, so it's better not to do all levels at once, it's tiring and not so effective (at least for me, different people might have different brains I guess haha).ĭuolingo itself tries to do this and get 'old' words (from previous skills) on your new sentences, so that you use them over time. I was surprised with how much I could remember after completing a second level a week or so later. Later (like a week later or so) i go back and complete another level of that skill.

I complete one level and move on to another skill. Not an expert by any means, but I'm going to give you some feedback of my past 212 days using Duolingo to learn Norwegian.

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