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With all that is going on in the world and personally I thought I’d find a distraction and learn a language. Scottish Gaelic would be good. But Duolingo makes my teeth itch with its gimmick based approach. I’m not 7 years old. I’m not incentivized by points levels, gems and ingots. In fact it completely puts me off. Also more practically you don’t seem to be able to repeat lessons and sections so if you’ve got a lot on your mind and keep forgetting stuff there is no way to repeat.
What’ve you got?
I suspect most now "gamify" the experience as the hipsters like to call point levels, gems and similar crap. Need to dust off memrise it has the points and crap but think you can rerun stuff easily enough.
I’d give Duolingo another go. You can pretty much ignore gems etc if you want, especially if you pay for it so you can turn on unlimited hearts (might be worth trying the 1 week free trial)
Once you’ve totally completed a lesson you can go back to practice it.
Not an app, but for Gaelic, try some of the stuff here. https://www.learngaelic.net/
It has a few courses, starting with complete beginners. The clips from Speaking Our Language can be fun.
Please, please believe me when I say that it's worth spending the money on Pimsleurs.
I have tried so many different approaches to learning Ukrainian - including winning a bursary to study in Lviv itself - and I have encountered nothing... absolutely nothing... as effective as Pimsleurs.
It's about £100 for whatever language you want, but when you consider that the cost of a year's tuition at university or some equivalent would be a hell of a lot more, it really is worth every penny.
Thanks folks - Pimsleurs was a non starter as Scots Gaelic was not on their list on languages sadly.
However Craig's suggestion looks excellent - load there to keep me busy!
Thanks very much.
Hmm, If you were learning a language like French, I'd say I have had good results using Michel Thomas' method. Unfortunately he doesn't do Gaelic.
I have also used Duolingo, it is annoying, but it does work..
I'm sure you know you have to approach it methodically.
I write down the each verb that get's used then after the lesson I go and find the present, future and past conjugations.
After the first week I'll try to find some one to talk to, even if it's just the basic hello how are you etc. I know it's difficult at the moment to do that. You might find someone on line that is willing to talk.
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if you didnt like duolingo, you probably wont like memrise either, but take a look