![]() ![]() 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. The experience left me with a couple of questions: How far in advance of a trip should travelers start studying Duolingo, and how well does Duolingo work when the destination you’re traveling to is different from the destination that was used as a reference point for your language course? So, when I got the opportunity to spend four days in Belgium after studying Duolingo French for three months this past summer, I jumped at the chance to find out. Other times, random words like “abacaxi” that I’d managed to memorize during my brief study were met with raised eyebrows, not because I had a tendency to shoehorn them into conversation but because, in that particular example, “ananás” is the more common word for “pineapple” in Portugal. ![]() When I got to Lisbon, simple phrases like “good morning” and “good afternoon” were pronounced so differently than the app had accustomed me to hearing them that it took me a couple of days to register the words. ![]()
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