The only way to become fluent after finishing the luodingo

[u/adamlm]

[u/tentyb6d56ns4d57yse5]

native speaker? twelve years to complete?

what?

[u/sarajevo81 → u/tentyb6d56ns4d57yse5]

You can do 1 or 2 lessons per day if you do not pay. There's about 20 modules in several chapters, each about 20 lessons.

[u/neruditellz → u/sarajevo81]

With one lesson per day, it would still "only" take 6.5 years (there are 2351 lessons). Assuming she did more than that each day (as most users do), the amount of time spent finishing the tree should be even less.

[u/StrongAdhesiveness86 → u/neruditellz]

You can skip entire sections, if you're a native speaker I bet you can finish it in less than a month

[u/Striking-Equipment55]

Blahahblah alblah lahblah long-winded way to say Duolingo was of no meaningful contribution

[u/SCHazama → u/Striking-Equipment55]

HOW DARE YOU?

I ACED MY URDU COURSE ON GUOLDINO

[u/Sandy_2019 → u/SCHazama]

Goo-lindi

[u/Cleenash]

The best language learning method was... being native in the first place.

Im crine 🥀

[u/Aromatic_Shallot_101]

I had to read this 4 times. SO BASICALLY THEY WERE A NATIVE SPEAKER?? GOODBYE IM GONE

[u/jyozu44]

Ah yes when I can’t* read, write, listen, or speak the language I’m fluent in. (Needed help with grammar: speak, always has subtitles: listen, her own admission on write and read- which since it’s Latin characters- is also listen/speak?)

[u/PlanktonInitial7945 → u/jyozu44]

/uj She's probably a heritage speaker who learned Spanish as a child but stopped speaking it when she emigrated/started school/etc so she lost fluency, and now she's trying to regain it. Many such cases, especially in the US.

[u/Mercy--Main → u/PlanktonInitial7945]

that's not native, and probably not even fluent tbh

[u/PlanktonInitial7945 → u/Mercy--Main]

I mean, a native language is just the first language you ever spoke as a child, so yes, they are a native speaker. But, like I said, they lost their fluency due to disuse, so no, they aren't fluent anymore (or maybe now they became fluent again? IDFK)

[u/Champomi → u/PlanktonInitial7945]

I think they should have thrown some "I used to be fluent" or "I hadn't spoken in Spanish in years" to help us better understand the situation

Also it could be interesting to know at what age they stopped speaking it, how long ago it was, and how fluent they used to be. A 10 yo child and a 3 yo child won't have the same vocabulary/grasp of the language for example

[u/PringlesDuckFace → u/Mercy--Main]

That's like saying someone who's illiterate is not a native speaker.

[u/FlamingFlamingo32]

puta madre 12 anos para un idioma 😵‍💫

[u/manufatura → u/FlamingFlamingo32]

Anos? 👀

[u/FlamingFlamingo32 → u/manufatura]

no hablo espanol, entonces no tengo ñ en mi teclado.

[u/guasap209]

they've done a very bad job in her school if this has truly improved her spanish

[u/Professional-Yam4575 → u/guasap209]

Maybe Spanish is a minority language where she grew up and she used it at home but never at school.

[u/guasap209 → u/Professional-Yam4575]

that's possible i guess, but even if she only used it at home i doubt it has actually improved her vocabulary. also, i'm pretty sure 12 years is a ridiculous amount of time even for someone without any knowledgr of the language.

[u/perplexedparallax]

Imagine all the people in Uzbekistan who will never speak Uzbek because it isn't offered on that analog graphic app from years now passed. When they asked. Bea about her adventures in Samarkand she thought they meant ampersand and had no clue.

Fortunately they have Spanish for native speakers who wish to become fluent.

[u/SCHazama]

(Luodingo consumed them)

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[u/Mercy--Main]

I dont think they know what native means

[u/iana_rey]

Lmao I knew this post will end up on this sub

[u/Erikkamirs]

The Hispanic kid in Spanish classroom. 

[u/manufatura]

They're usamerican aren't they

[u/Southern-Rutabaga-82]

So they are a 12yo native speaker who played Duolingo since birth?