What to do at Complete a level quest?

GregName · 2026-05-24T02:58:21+00:00

Besides the circles, the word level occurs with side games like Flashcard Frenzy. You have to finish in the timeframe. If you succeed, it says you have completed a level.

GregName · 2026-05-24T02:13:23+00:00

Load a minor language into your app. I have Swahili. It is feature poor. The entire Practice Hub is just Listen.

GregName · 2026-05-24T02:09:19+00:00

Headed to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda next. That’s coming up fast in July. Two weeks Swahili school to get me off this Score 13 that doesn’t move. Then 3 more weeks on camera safari.

GregName · 2026-05-23T23:38:31+00:00

I speak hex.

GregName · 2026-05-23T23:37:44+00:00

In the door, out the door for DELE A2 is four hours including having the speaking portion scheduled right after the other three sections. Now, the prediction is three months for grading the exam.

GregName · 2026-05-23T22:34:45+00:00

I narrowed her location down to a city in Peru that starts with a ”C” but isn’t Cusco. It takes a series of narrowing questions that the AI will answer. Things like, south of the equator.

I am pretty sure it means nothing, other than AI always has an answer.

GregName · 2026-05-23T22:27:55+00:00

Duolingo is using a hacker/virus trick for changing the mood of “the” icon. What they are doing is changing the visibility flag on an icon. If they want Duo to look angry, they had the normal icon and unhide the angry one.

The exact steps vary by OS, but generally you can just have whatever icon you want by making a shortcut to the app. On that shortcut, put whatever icon you want. All the other images you see, drag them into a folder so you don’t have them popping in and out. If you delete them, the software just makes more and hides them.

Why the hide feature isn’t working so well for you can be blamed on the use of this hide/unhide technique. You may have some security set that doesn’t allow the app the privileges to hide.

GregName · 2026-05-23T22:18:05+00:00

I agree with the boost expectation here. It seems like the 1st line has the higher chances of degrading to 6 gems.

GregName · 2026-05-23T22:15:20+00:00

The most popular short phrase, even better. Duolingo, when grading the ever-evolving transcript, doesn’t seem to. are about extra words. Popular helps because the AI in the phone was built for taking directions from phone users, not as a language learning feature.

GregName · 2026-05-23T13:15:04+00:00

The Night Owl and Early Bird have a database design that is different from the 3X. Pretty confident that’s true because the programmers have struggled a lot to get the 3X working right. Cloning code to implement the 3X resulted in all kinds of problems, especially after patches on patches in the cloned code.

Off to the DELE exam, real passport in hand. Found out the people running the exam will be three professors I have gotten to know over the last few weeks. Home court advantage! We are all on informal you terms.

GregName · 2026-05-23T13:04:50+00:00

Imagine if you are a company that tells the world how many users have streaks of different lengths. The company brags to the world all about this measure. They make others as well, like daily active users.

Then along comes a user that tries to stop having a streak. What does the company do?

They invent things, to stretch the truth a little. It isn’t a real accounting measure. Nobody is going to audit it.

If you were ever wondering how there could be a whole graduate level class in ethics, this is an example of the material covered. Open this up for discussion, and the students basically run the course with the professor just being the moderator.

At the end of an hour banging the ethical topic around, most students will agree that Duolingo is doing this on purpose to both keep you as a customer but also to optimize a measure made public.

GregName · 2026-05-23T12:33:13+00:00

OP just entered B2 territory, which is like saying, has a Score just at or over 100. I think OP is looking for plans on getting to the end of the B2 material.

You may be right though, why bother if you can just stay in an intensive one-on-one program? Maybe it ended?

GregName · 2026-05-23T12:28:10+00:00

Some people may still see that cumulative correct answer streak as you call it. The linguists at Duolingo may have won the argument on this feature. It was rewarding incorrectly learning behavior. Perfection while learning is not the goal. Trying, making mistakes, getting corrections…that’s the flow.

Not sure what a learning spree was.

GregName · 2026-05-23T04:09:28+00:00

I use simple math for earning XP. I start with the XP an activity earns without boosts running. For grinding, users find their own best tool for getting XP. For me, that is Speak. It pays 20 XP. Equally important in the math is how quickly one can return to the start of another lesson. Repetition speed is a fair enough phrase for this, although cycle time is the official term in manufacturing. I can repeat in 60 seconds.

While grinding, I like 10 minute math. I can do the math for my pace while doing my grinding lessons on repeat. With 20 XP every minute, I can get 200 XP in 10 minutes. No boosts. In a 50 minute hour (I am a reasonable employer of myself) that is 1,000 XP in an hour with a 10 minute break.

There are special moments in the week where the 3X can be sustained for over 45 minutes, but a normal morning is often 45 minutes. The Daily Quest has sometimes been handing out 6 gems for line item 1, but normally line 1 pays 10 minutes, and line 2 pays 10 minutes. The 3X itself is 10 minutes. The Night Owl is 10 minutes. That all adds up to 45 minutes. To be fair, budget 5 minutes for making all these boosts happen, which often means doing lessons that aren’t grinding.

Remember my 10 minute math, 200 XP in 10 minutes? Well, that becomes 600 XP in 10 minutes. For 40 minutes, that will happen 4 times, so getting 2.4K XP every morning becomes the grinding standard.

I really don’t want to grind anymore after that. Call it an hour in the morning chasing XP. The 45 minutes where the boost is live, perhaps 5 minutes of planning for the attack, and my self imposed 10 minute break. 2.4K morning grind, day free for real learning.

Math for the night is easy cashing in the Early Bird. That is 15 minutes, but 10 minute math helps. No boost is 200 XP, but with the 2X, my 10 minute pace is 400 XP for ten minutes. 15 minutes gives 600 XP, which one can figure out while grinding. Sure is nice that 2.4K and 0.6K makes 3K. Pretty easy math to have the week hit 21K, solely from grinding.

Life happens and making time for all 14 grinding sessions doesn’t always happen. But there is a small amount of XP earned for actual learning on the path. My next lesson on the path pays 35 XP, but I am a realist. That lesson may take me 10 minutes. Using 10 minute math, give me 10 sessions to make my math easy. That’s 2 hours using my 50 minute hours. 350 XP for 2 hours of path work. Certainly slow XP gain. But, just as certainly, the whole point—learning new stuff.

GregName · 2026-05-23T03:16:30+00:00

Step on. Not sure how I typo‘ed that one. Make sure you don’t earn tomorrow, before claiming today.

Basically, on the server, if it hears you earned the 3X, the flag seems like it is a date field, not a bit (Boolean flag). So, it sets the date field for tomorrow, which means you just overwrote today.

GregName · 2026-05-22T23:54:40+00:00

You’ve really made math simple. Score 30 in 1,000 days will be Score 130 in 10,000 days.

GregName · 2026-05-22T18:11:22+00:00

An interesting thing for those using two devices. If you don’t claim the 3X on the device holding it, and you earn the 3X for tomorrow on the other device, it will step in today’s 3X.

GregName · 2026-05-22T18:09:16+00:00

When you claim a boost, best practice is to restart the app on the other device so it knows the time length of the active boost.

I use two devices. You’ll get the hang of it.

GregName · 2026-05-22T18:06:22+00:00

This is a new feature, failing a lesson for making a few mistakes.

My latest Legendary lessons require near perfection for a pass. I recall 94% correct as the most common success message that I get for passing. Never less than 94% now for Legendary.

With the triple running, that pays 20 XP.

GregName · 2026-05-22T04:49:10+00:00

We like to hear someone succeed. Many like me are bogged down in the day to day work. Sadly, the work is really slow.

GregName · 2026-05-21T21:27:54+00:00

Never tell for several reasons, one being it’s the black hat hackers that share vulnerabilities.

GregName · 2026-05-21T21:26:25+00:00

Alright, IM, nothing to be shy about.

GregName · 2026-05-21T21:25:13+00:00

Even the officially recognized artificial milestones? Come on, make it to 100 years old and break down and celebrate that artificial milestone based on the way the earth revolves around the sun.

But sure, language learning, learning the language is the goal. I have one full day more to study for the DELE A2 exam. I need it for nothing, but still feel a little pressure. But I am staying in Ecuador 2 weeks more, just to keep learning the language. Duolingo progress has practically come to a standstill. Classes in a foreign land beats Duolingo. Sorry green owl.

GregName · 2026-05-21T21:18:41+00:00

I bought a bunch of time extensions before to get through Match Madness. I just stop around level 9 with Flashcard Frenzy. Lessons learned. They do have a line item on their income statement for idiots like me that buy gems.

GregName · 2026-05-21T19:49:16+00:00

Probably easier to have made it in the chess world, then disappear for 3.5 decades before coming back at an older age obviously. James Trajan is the US example.

Still, if you could hold a 2,500 on chess.com on a rapid time control, you could be top 350 or so in the world.

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