I was placed in Unit 3 of 199 and pledged to spend 15 minutes per day studying for 90 consecutive days.īy day five, I was hooked. Duolingo’s placement exam confirmed just how much French I’d forgotten in the decade since I stopped hearing it regularly. I chose to visit Brussels, the primarily French-speaking capital, because I remembered some French from a stint I spent in Paris years ago, and I was curious to see how closely Duolingo’s French course translated to the French I’d heard in France versus the French I’d hear in Belgium.įirst, I needed some serious practice.
Twitter How well does Duolingo actually work?īelgium has three official languages: Dutch, the native language of about 60 percent of Belgians French, the mother tongue of around 40 percent of Belgians and German, which is spoken natively by less than one percent of the population.
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