To try and give myself some structure in learning German I downloaded Dual Lingo. The first time I tried downloading it the other day I couldn’t figure out how to get it to start the download. Today, though, I was persistent and got the app installed on my iPhone.
Here’s where it gets interesting, or heartbreaking.
I made it through seventy-five percent of the lesson designed to help Dual Lingo know where I needed to start, even making it past a question with an image. VoiceOver told me what the buttons were, but then I got to a question that said complete the sentence. Try as I might I couldn’t understand what to do with the stuff on the screen. I even unplugged my ear buds to let wife Eva hear what I was dealing with. She, nor I, could figure out what to do, so I hit the quit button and lost all progress. I had gotten eleven in a row correct, but then this happened.
I reckon, so much for Dual Lingo. I won’t uninstall it quite yet but when I’ll try it again is anybody’s guess.
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Okay, the energy recharges at the beginning of each lesson.
Today’s lesson, I do believe, had an error in it. I kept missing it because they had Guten spelled Wuten. I finally tapped on that and heard it was being pronounced Guten.
Gosh, I wonder how many more errors I’ll find. I had 7 energy points by the end because I made so many mistakes, only one of which was their fault.
This was my second day, and I had a problem which I feel I’ll keep having. It wanted speech from me and I finally figured out how to do that, giving the app permission to use the microphone and send data to Apple and such. But then, the next time it wanted me to speak, that button, marked logo other by VoiceOver, didn’t appear. In frustration I canceled speech, which the app let me do for fifteen minutes. In that case, it was enough time for me to finish the lesson without further hassle. Yes, I know, speaking is essential to learning a language, but if it won’t work consistently for me it’s no good anyway.
I have a feeling I’ll have to start paying for lessons, or something, soon. I see my energy dropping and may have to pay to recharge it. The app says it’s free forever but that is patently false.
Watch this space for more comments about this, should I feel they’re warranted.
This morning I succeeded in getting Dual Lingo going on my iPhone. Yay for some structure in my learning! Will it help? Only time will tell.
I just tried Dual Lingo on the computer and couldn’t get past the button where it said to let Dual Lingo find my level, so the iPhone app is slightly more accessible.