{"id":2716,"date":"2021-04-14T06:41:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/learn-german-with-duolingo-uberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:41:23","slug":"learn-german-with-duolingo-uberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/learn-german-with-duolingo-uberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn German with Duolingo &#8211; \u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post single hentry\">\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\">Learn German with Duolingo<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Free Language poster by Duolingo 1\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5118\/7091769673_b5aae55aaf_o.png\" alt=\"Free Language poster by Duolingo 1\" width=\"315\" height=\"470\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Free Language poster by Duolingo 1\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5445\/7091769645_d0ef9db144_o.png\" alt=\"Free Language poster by Duolingo 2\" width=\"315\" height=\"470\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As you already know, we&#8217;re really trying to learn German. What started as a vague desire not to be the expats with the shittiest <em>Deutsch<\/em> became one of our <a title=\"Our New Year\u2019s Resolutions\" href=\"\/our-new-years-resolutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Year&#8217;s Resolutions<\/a>&#8230; and along with <a title=\"Meet Olive, our French Bulldog puppy\" href=\"\/meet-olive-our-french-bulldog-puppy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our new puppy<\/a>, came a new goal: to be able to speak to six year olds in their own language about how &#8220;klein&#8221; and &#8220;s\u00fcss&#8221; she is. But even with the <a title=\"Daily Deutsch on \u00fcberlin\" href=\"\/tag\/daily-deutsch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Deutsches<\/a> and the weekly tutorials, we still find it hard to get regular practice. That&#8217;s where <strong>Duolingo<\/strong>, language learning software with a difference, is helping:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyzJ2Qq9Abs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want to find out more about the story behind Duolingo, scroll down for founder Luis von Ahn&#8217;s presentation at TEDxCMU. Aside from his unique mission <strong>&#8211; using language learning to get 100m people to translate the web into every major language for free &#8211;<\/strong> I&#8217;ve already been impressed by the private beta version of Duolingo&#8217;s German program.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple, social (connecting to both Facebook and Twitter), works all your passive and active language skills &#8211; listening, reading,\u00a0speaking and writing &#8211; and allows you to learn in manageable chunks, marked by a real sense of achievement. Plus, it pulls in real online content which is inherently more interesting than the usual textbook scenarios &#8211; so far, I&#8217;ve translated texts about Jeff Bridges, Ghostbusters and Nazis! Best of all, it&#8217;s totally free!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duolingo are still gradually inviting new users &#8211; sign up over <a href=\"http:\/\/duolingo.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/duolingo.com\/', 'here');\" title=\"Duolingo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQl6jUjFjp4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"650\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-5219 defualt\" post_id=\"5219\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/learn-german-with-duolingo\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/twitter.com\/share', 'Tweet');\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/learn-german-with-duolingo\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postDate\"><span>Published:<\/span> <abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2012-05-02T08:36:20+0000\"><a href=\"\/2012\/05\/02\/\">May 2, 2012<\/a><\/abbr><\/div>\n<div class=\"categories\"><span>Filed Under:<\/span> <a href=\"\/category\/opinions\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Opinions<\/a><\/div>\n<p>         \t<span>Tags:<\/span> <a href=\"\/tag\/daily-deutsch\/\" rel=\"tag\">Daily Deutsch<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/duolingo\/\" rel=\"tag\">Duolingo<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/social-media\/\" rel=\"tag\">Social Media<\/a>        \t         \t          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>               \t<!-- You can start editing here. <!-- --> <\/p>\n<div id=\"comments\">\n<h3 id=\"comments\">One Response to &#8220;Learn German with Duolingo&#8221;<\/h3>\n<div class=\"navigation\">\n<div class=\"alignleft\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"alignright\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ol class=\"commentlist\">\n<li class=\"pingback even thread-even depth-1\" id=\"comment-8240\">\n<div id=\"div-comment-8240\" class=\"comment-body\">\n<div class=\"comment-author vcard\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"fn\"><a href=\"\/ask-uberlin-do-i-need-to-learn-german\/\" rel=\"external nofollow\" class=\"url\">ask \u00fcberlin: Do I need to learn German? : uberlin<\/a><\/cite> <span class=\"says\">says:<\/span>\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-meta commentmetadata\"><a href=\"\/learn-german-with-duolingo\/#comment-8240\"> \t\t\tOctober 21, 2012 at 10:12 am<\/a>\t\t<\/div>\n<p>[&#8230;] that works for us: Duolingo. 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