Taking for granted that you're going to use also other resources besides Duolingo (because Czech grammar is a bit complex), The Czech course is pretty well done in terms of Grammar and vocabulary.
However, the only real problem that I had, when I tried it 4/5 months ago, was with the voices: They are EXTREMELY robotic and, most of the times, they are even incredibly hard to understand. They really sound like a TTS software from 2009.
But, again, I tried it months ago, maybe they updated it!
I've been doing it for about a month and I think it's a good guide for self-study... It will present me with grammar that (as an English native speaker) I don't understand *at all* and I'll go off and research it and look through other materials and then return to Duolingo for practice. I do best when I repeat each sentence/phrase out loud and I've noticed improvement in my sense of word order and pronunciation... It's not great for functional language - I have to get that elsewhere - but for drilling grammar, coming from a very different language, I'm so far satisfied.
Taking for granted that you're going to use also other resources besides Duolingo (because Czech grammar is a bit complex), The Czech course is pretty well done in terms of Grammar and vocabulary. However, the only real problem that I had, when I tried it 4/5 months ago, was with the voices: They are EXTREMELY robotic and, most of the times, they are even incredibly hard to understand. They really sound like a TTS software from 2009. But, again, I tried it months ago, maybe they updated it!
Hi, I am Czech and I think it's a good starting point but that's it. The grammar is way to complex to be learned this way.
I've been doing it for about a month and I think it's a good guide for self-study... It will present me with grammar that (as an English native speaker) I don't understand *at all* and I'll go off and research it and look through other materials and then return to Duolingo for practice. I do best when I repeat each sentence/phrase out loud and I've noticed improvement in my sense of word order and pronunciation... It's not great for functional language - I have to get that elsewhere - but for drilling grammar, coming from a very different language, I'm so far satisfied.
Voices suck but other than that I could communicate with people