Duolingo is a thematic and grammar-intensive learning path where you’re taken through a gamified progression primarily made up of fill-in-the-blank exercises.Rosetta Stone aims to be a full immersion experience, where all skills are trained through listening and image-matching exercises, and their advanced TruAccent™ speech-recognition technology.While I’ve written at length in the past about Rosetta Stone’s method, I’ve actually said little about Duolingo (keep reading and I’ll explain why).īoth platforms have had huge success in their own ways and many imitator products have spawned off them over the last few years.įirst of all, let me summarize how they differ (based on their own claims): I was honestly inclined not to write this post today (because it really is like comparing apples to oranges!) but since so many people ask about it, I thought I’d take some time to put the matter to rest. Is Duolingo better than Rosetta Stone? (or vice-versa?) I know there’s plenty for me to learn from duo about grammar and verbs and yes some vocab, just not with what they’ve changed it to.Duolingo and Rosetta Stone are often compared side-by-side as language learning platforms and course options.
Before, and even at the beginning of, the new path I was still learning.
Meaning you complete exercises and get direct feedback on its correctness. Duo has been great for what I always thought of as “formal” language practice. I do plenty of other reading, listening, writing, and language exchanges. Hopefully we get if fixed or I’ll be canceling my long-term subscription breaking my 80 day streak and using other methods to study language.Įdit: I’m seeing some people suggest that I’ve moved past Duolingo or I shouldn’t use it as my only tool. I hope anyone else who feels like they’re learning less does the same thing. I used the feedback mechanism to explain this directly to Duo. The majority of exercises in my Italian lessons are either only single-word fill ins or word bank questions where every word is used and I could do it without translating the sentence or knowing all the words. You learn less but it’s a dopamine hit for users to keep them essentially addicted. I feel like Duo is headed in a direction where questions are less intensive.
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