I'M LORETTA!

Today I have such an amazing announcement to share

and I'm so excited!!!!!!!

If you're anything like me,

and you like learning about Japan's culture and language

today is an extra special day because

something that came out that is going to help you learn

and how to study and do all of that stuff for FREE.

Today I want to share, DUOLINGO.

Up until no, Duolingo has been a service

for learning romance languages and other languages

but they haven't had Japanese until now

so today I want to test it out with you guys

and see how it looks.

So yeah! Let's go!

[ Duolingo Japanese (FINALLY!!) ]

Let's start at the basics...

Tap the pairs....

Tomorrow will be April 4th...

There...is..a...chair...behind me...

(Hey buddy!)

(How'd you get in this app??)

High five!!

These sentences always crack me up!!!

There are...a...lot...of...men...

I want ot see if I can test out of this

to see what one of the extra lessons looks like

so give me like 10 seconds...

Hey! Did I say 10 minutes??

How about more like... THREE DAYS

The last 3 days I have been playing with this app

and trying to test my way through the levels

I think this is a great way for any beginner

who's at a "zero" level to just jump in

to get immersed (MAYBE DROWNED)

but definitely immersed very quickly.

I want to see if we can get to some of the more advanced levels really quick...

I want to take a shortcut up here...

Today...is...not...cool.

It is very cool, I think!

It took two weeks...

This APP took two weeks!

I don't wash my clothes in Fall and Winter...????

WHO IS THIS!?!?!

Ew, this person's nasty!!!

One of the things I was thinking while going through it

is that so many of you send me messages in Japanese

where you practice Japanese, and a lot of times

the words you're using may be advanced

but the sentence order is a little bit awkward.

So I think, if you're a self studier or trying to sound more native

this app will probably be helpful

because you're drilling yourself and mimicking patterns

and learning to swap words into those patterns

so it'll help you recognize more native patterns.

You can notice the topics are very common, like

everyday topics, pop culture, olympics and more

so it's great in terms of content

It's not a bug per se, but maybe it's my personal preference

but it kept correcting my English???

It kept telling me that my English translations were wrong

in a very nit-picky way.

(I'm leaving the bank vs. I leave the bank)

C'MON GUYSs. I lost a whole heart off of THAT?!

It's not a bug, but just personally I felt

like MY ENGLISH IS FINE!!!

It's great if you're a beginner

if you're not, you can test to certain parts and get there faster

It didn't eat up my phone battery, which was nice

and then, it's free!

Like, it's free! That's the biggest bonus!

Let me know what you thought in a comment

if you tried it what you thought

Did you find any bugs or glitches?

So, I'll see you in another video!

Thank you so much for watching today!

It's a really fun app

The new duolingo Japanese app was really great!

Thanks! I'm so excited

and hopefully, now that they have Japanese

maybe they'll add some other script-based languages as well

we'll see, that would be nice.

See you in the next video!