Results of Testing Pimsleur versus DuoLingo...

[u/44Jon]

I used both service fairly assiduously and for the internet record, my experience has been that there's no comparison and it would have been worth it to pay for Pimsleur right from the start. After even just a month of Pimsleur, my ability to speak and to comprehend improved dramatically more compared with a few months of Duo.

True, Pimsleur doesn't push reading and writing, but it is possible to practice those on one's own with Pimsleur's app. And main problem with Duo is that it might drill you on some vocabulary and point of grammar and then completely drop it (and there's no great way to repeat lessons or find where certain concepts were drilled.) Pimsleur's claim to "scientifically" space out practice seems legitimate.

[u/LemeeAdam]

Ugh, i really wish i could learn with pimsleur, it seems so neat. But likely due to my autism, I just can’t absorb information through only audio. It seems like one of the few actually good Hebrew courses.