[aaron987]

I've been using Duolingo to learn Italian. It was awesome up until about 40% fluency, then it lost its effectiveness. It was a great way to learn basic vocabulary and sentence structure, but after that I learned more by just reading my news in Italian.

[Graziano_M]

The italian lessons in particular are, unfortunately, utter garbage. Peek at the French for an example of good lessons.

[whenwillitstop]

Yeah I had the same problem. I actually found this online course at ylanguage.com it was really effective.