Anki might not be suitable for anything other than vocabulary extension (and medical school). I’m not really sure. I’ve only ever successfully used it for vocabulary extension.
I may be biased because I use Anki to study Chinese, an unusually difficult language. The relative merits of Duolingo vs. Anki may be less clear-cut for easier languages like Romance languages where it’s not necessary to learn the language so systematically. In the case of Chinese, grammar is so simple and vocabulary is so hard that vocabulary extension is pretty much the entire game, so optimizing for anything other than vocabulary acquisition can cause you to fail in the long intermediate slog.
What language(s) are you studying?
I find Duolingo way better for getting a feel for grammar.
This makes sense. I prioritize vocabulary over grammer for a couple reasons. [1] You can communicate effectively with vocabulary and without grammar (but not vice-versa) and [2] the difficulty of learning a language’s grammar is far outweighed, in the long run, by the difficulty of learning vocabulary.
It may make sense for someone to start learning with Duolingo and then transfer to Anki (for hard languages) or just reading material in the language (for easy languages). I’m happy to hear that Duolingo works for you.
Anki might not be suitable for anything other than vocabulary extension (and medical school). I’m not really sure. I’ve only ever successfully used it for vocabulary extension.
I may be biased because I use Anki to study Chinese, an unusually difficult language. The relative merits of Duolingo vs. Anki may be less clear-cut for easier languages like Romance languages where it’s not necessary to learn the language so systematically. In the case of Chinese, grammar is so simple and vocabulary is so hard that vocabulary extension is pretty much the entire game, so optimizing for anything other than vocabulary acquisition can cause you to fail in the long intermediate slog.
What language(s) are you studying?
This makes sense. I prioritize vocabulary over grammer for a couple reasons. [1] You can communicate effectively with vocabulary and without grammar (but not vice-versa) and [2] the difficulty of learning a language’s grammar is far outweighed, in the long run, by the difficulty of learning vocabulary.
It may make sense for someone to start learning with Duolingo and then transfer to Anki (for hard languages) or just reading material in the language (for easy languages). I’m happy to hear that Duolingo works for you.