5 Ways to Quickly Improve Your Target Language Skills

Sergej Klementinovski
5 min readMar 20, 2024

Or Can I Become Fluent With Duolingo?

Will you learn to speak fluently in the target language with Duolingo? Definitely no.

Sad Learning Language Cat is Sad — Photo by 傅甬 华 on Unsplash

But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use it. If you’re starting with a language, there are hardly any better apps than Duolingo, LingoDeer or Babbel.

These will undoubtedly give you an easily accessible foundation and make your entry into the target language much more accessible. And if you are an absolute beginner, go for it and use it. Those apps will help you to make the first step into the target language. However, you will quickly reach the point where you hardly progress.

This is because most language learning apps offer AI-generated example sentences. Although this fact may seem relatively unimportant initially, you will quickly reach a level where you often have to repeat meaningless sentences that don’t add value.

The so-called “comprehensible language input” is missing, which is crucial if you want to learn the language.

So, what do you do if you have learned the basics of a language and want to develop further? Here are five important tips on how to reach the pinnacle of language learning.

So grab a cup of coffee and a pen!

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Sergej Klementinovski

Former Game Dev, now Solution Architect & aspiring writer. Exploring fiction, mysticism, and philosophy inspired by Murakami&classic literature. Join my journey