Learning French with Duolingo app : How long does it take ?

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You could be 100% fluent in the French language or proficient in that language in 1000 days. Or you could be 1% fluent. For that it depends on what you do and how you use your resources. If you want or if you think that you need to spend a thousand days on the French language, in order to be fluent, I would suggest you to spend less time. If you like to use the application Duolingo, I suggest you to use it a bit less. If you do not use it or if you do not want to use it, it is ok.This application does not have the best phrases or the best native speakers. It is not one of the best language learning application. Busuu and LingVist is a nice one, depending on what you want to do. If you speak with someone who is learning your native language with DL, you will see that in the first times the conversations will be very slow. He will not know many words. Even he will be able to have little talk. He is able to improve is target language (your native language) without using Duolingo, so DL is not so important. No matter if you use it or not in any case you need to practice to be  better at using your target language. For that process of associating a meaning with certain words and grammar, and for that meaning to go straight to your mouth.

But what about input ?

Input means to put the French language in your brain in all the ways possible, learning as you were a child. You just you know basically all the different things you could say, all the different constructions you can use, all most of them anyway. Some people says that DL has more content, it offers more possibility for a lot of input. You need a lot of input but as well you need to speak a lot, the earlier you start speaking the better. So a good application is an application that provides you with a lot of input. If you want to be fluent with the French language, the application Duolingo is not enough. What you want is to improve your comprehension to the best level, so you would be able to  understand everything  no matter the difficulty of the information. I think that the application Busuu has more input than DL. With Busuu you use the language in a nice way, close to the reality, you have to listen to the voices of native speakers, you have to talk, you have to speak the language, and so you will reach the level where everything or almost everything is understandable.       

How much practice do you need ?

How long, how much French learning activities do you need to reach the level « I can get all the input » ? For sure you need comprehensible input. Maybe between 100 and 200 hours. And it depends on the language you want to know : if your mother tongue is a latin language, for example you speak spanish it would be easier to learn the French language or the italian langue compare to the arabic or russian languages. DL is not the right application to spend between 100 and 200 hours  to be able to get almost all the input you are going to receive in your daily life. It is suitable for the first 10 to 15 hours but then you need to change to improve your practice. You as well have an exchange with someone on iTalki for example, reading an article outloud  together and he can correct your language (your pronunciation), he can as well give you the meaning of some words, what does they mean in your target language. You can as well doing it on your own, you willit work on your accent but you still could improve the French language. You can as well use a tool with which you just need to click on the word and you have the meaning of this word.

I suggest you as well to watch a lot of videos on Youtube in your target language. It is a very efficient way to get a better your comprehension level. Even if you do not have a high level in your target language you can get some words. So the question « how long does it take with DL to be fluent in your target language ? » has no answer really because in any case it will be hard to be fluent with htis application. But it can get you up to a stage where you can train further to be fluent in your target language.

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