Duolingo, one in all our CNET picks for the very best language learning apps, introduced Monday that its Explain My Answer characteristic can be coming to free plans on iOS beginning Jan. 1. That is one thing I’ve been eager to see on the free model of the app ever since I attempted to use it to learn Italian earlier than touring to Rome.
Duolingo launched Explain My Answer in 2023, nevertheless it was restricted to Duolingo Max, which prices $30 a month or $168 a 12 months. The characteristic explains grammatical guidelines, like grammatical gender, and supply additional examples that will help you perceive why you bought one thing flawed.
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After you reply a query in a language lesson accurately or not, an Clarify My Reply button will seem close to the underside of your display screen. Whenever you faucet this button the characteristic will clarify the totally different elements of the query on both one or a number of slides relying on the query.
I’ve discovered this characteristic useful for studying sure language guidelines. The teachings don’t at all times make it clear what the totally different guidelines are for tenses, for instance, and these explainers really feel extra helpful than rote memorization. The characteristic permits me to know why issues are appropriate or incorrect, not simply what an accurate reply seems to be like.
Clarify My Reply can be obtainable for English audio system studying Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Korean. Duolingo is working to deliver this characteristic to different languages and free plans on Android gadgets sooner or later.
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