I have been trying to learn German online. I use the free website Duolingo.com. If a person doesn’t want advertisements a student can pay for them to be removed, but I’m too cheap and go for the lessons that are completely free.

I work at duolingo.com from my laptop and cellphone.

There are many more languages on the Duolingo website than German. Here’s the list I gleaned from Wikipedia.

• Spanish (22.7M)
• French (13.1M)
• German (7.47M)
• Japanese (5.93M)
• Italian (5.17M)
• Korean (3.61M)
• Mandarin Chinese (3.42M)^[40]
• Russian (3.03M)
• Brazilian Portuguese (2.22M)
• Turkish (1.41M)
• Dutch (1.33M)
• Swedish (1.13M)
• Greek (1.04M)
• High Valyrian (1.04M)^[41]
• Hindi (980K)
• Irish (950K)
• Polish (858K)
• Hebrew (842K)
• Norwegian Bokmål (817K)
• Vietnamese (600K)
• Danish (524K)
• Arabic (504K)^[42]
• Hawaiian (496K)^[43]
• Romanian (456K)
• Czech (412K)
• Swahili (368K)
• Welsh (357K)
• Ukrainian (321K)
• Indonesian (320K)^[44]
• Esperanto (315K)
• 
  Klingon (489K)
  Hungarian (328K)
  Navajo (288K)

Did you notice you can actually learn Klingon?

A person can also learn English on Duolingo.

This is the perfect learning opportunity for me. German words don’t exactly stick in my memory, but I can review a lesson over and over and over again. No one is judging my progress. I keep going because I want to.

I’ve heard that learning a new language is a good way of keeping your mind sharp as you age. I also know if anyone speaks German to me they will have to do it very slowly, one word at a time, or I won’t understand them.

It’s a great opportunity and it’s FREE! Give it a try. You have many choices.

Guten Tag.

Copyright © 2019 Susan Manzke, All rights reserved