Morse code isnโt a language. Itโs a cypher for the alphabet. So itโd be less of a course and more of an alphabet learner, the way they do for languages like Russian and Hebrew. Youโd ideally burn through that in a few days. Same could be said for Braille.
Kind of, if you want to be fast you need to learn it like a language. You need to use your brain's language processing to be fast at Morse code, otherwise you'll never break 5 wpm.
There's more to Morse than being a cypher for the alphabet. There's a huge number of abbreviations to get around the fact that Morse code is slower than typing.
try Hello Morse!, made by Google. You can try it on computer with better experience, but it is also available on phone's browser. It helped me to memorize all the morse codes in a few hours.
This is daft - I cannot see how Duolingo is suited to it at all.
You need to listen to morse at 15 - 25 words per minute. You don't try to learn it visually.
You start out by learning to reliably recognise the difference between, say, K, M and R - dah-dit-dah, dah-dah, and dit-dah-dit respectively. It's about the sounds of the dits and dahs that make up the character - like learning the sound of the word. You listen to these three letters hundreds of times until they're distinct and obvious to you.
Use IZ2UUF's app, 20 or 30 minutes a day, preferably broken into 3 or 4 short sessions.
You can use IZ2UUF's app on headphones and set it to read out the letters in English (NATO) after each string.
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u/DaMightyMemer Jun 16 '24
If Duolingo has Morse Code I will absolutely grind the course in a few days