[farcaster]

I went from knowing nothing of French to reading 20 thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne in French (the original language)

It's not that big of an achievement since I'm Brazilian and I already speak Italian, the romance languages are somewhat similar. But I'm happy and I want to keep learning new languages because that proved to be a rewarding experience all steps of the way.

I've used Lingq and Memrise, if anyone is interested :)

[kinow]

Was going to ask what you had used. Brazilian too, but know only Spanish (kinda), and English. Will check out these two. Thanks and congrats!!!

[farcaster]

LingQ is something else. The ideia is that you should feed the app with "input" from your target language that you care about[1], and listen to it again and again. Memrise is more like a Duolingo that actually works haha

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw-u_vVx6Is

[kinow]

Thanks!

[sputr]

I do envy you. Been busting my brain with French for years as its always been my dream to speak it. But coming from Slovenian (slavic) and not having an ear for languages does not help.

So, congrats!