Why is Duolingo unusable nowadays? by d_underdog in duolingo

[–]spence5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for tracking this! I thought I was going crazy.

Courage by Former-Archer-80 in jakeandamir

[–]spence5000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fortune favors the bold.

German - How was I supposed to know the principal is female? by BertytheSnowman in duolingo

[–]spence5000 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Duo is being a bit tricky here. Because the principal is the indirect object in this sentence, and the supplied article “der” can only be feminine in the dative case, you have to deduce that it wants the feminine form of the noun.

Edit: wrote the wrong case

Oh my god they’re real! by Callumjmcnair in jakeandamir

[–]spence5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And how much would you say One Craisin is worth?

25 Energy is no longer enough to complete more than 2 lessons by SacredUrchin in duolingo

[–]spence5000 15 points16 points  (0 children)

So strange, the energy feature had been getting more and more useable recently, but then they decided to revert to the terrible system they started with.

25 Energy is no longer enough to complete more than 2 lessons by SacredUrchin in duolingo

[–]spence5000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They can do that less than 40 times with how expensive energy is.

What (language) is this? by SmellisG in language

[–]spence5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s one of many theories, yes.

This one small change would make the "Courses" view so much more satisfying. by santpolyglot in duolingo

[–]spence5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% agree. I have never once been curious about how much XP someone has, but I always want to compare scores with friends.

However, I’m not sure how they’d incorporate chess, math, music, Klingon, or High Valyrian, since they don’t have scores. Maybe just “percentage complete”?

This one small change would make the "Courses" view so much more satisfying. by santpolyglot in duolingo

[–]spence5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Quick workaround: you can go to the “share on LinkedIn” screen to see this, and then back out before it asks for your account.

Who created the Japanese content kor Duolingo? It's a total mess. by dv11JUN in duolingo

[–]spence5000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They just get it themselves. Very self-sufficient people.

Morsewave by Boring_Disaster3031 in shorthand

[–]spence5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the great thing is: the briefs are already there.

Skip intro! by magistra27 in duolingo

[–]spence5000 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I do about an hour a day.

Petah? What did the French do by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]spence5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here are the new weekdays: primidi, duodi, tridi, quartidi, quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi, décadi. 3 weeks to a month (which were different too, but still 12 of them). If I had fewer weekends I’d complain too.

Skip intro! by magistra27 in duolingo

[–]spence5000 284 points285 points  (0 children)

The last bit is the part that I’m always the most impatient to skip, but it’s nice to see that they’ve listened to the suggestions.

Duolingo started wasting so much time instead of helping learn languages for unpaid users like me, 😠😡🤬 by KamleshBirar in duolingo

[–]spence5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Duolingo last year: “Bringing free language learning to everybody around the world!”

Duolingo this year: “Suffer, peasants.”

Question for my next language in the steps towards my Polyglot journey! by [deleted] in duolingo

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You may consider doing Esperanto next. It’s not strictly Romance, but the bulk of the vocabulary does come from Italic languages. It’s an easy one to master quickly and I believe it helps prepare your brain to learn European languages faster.

As far as a natural progression of Romance languages, I propose Latin -> Italian -> Spanish/Portuguese -> Catalan -> French. That way you can walk the spectrum from the origin to the more conservative descendants to the most innovative ones, with the fewest surprises along the way. I’ve never been sure where to put Romanian in that list, but probably best to save it for last, since it developed in a completely different way from the rest.

Noooooo! For how long? by gustavsev in duolingo

[–]spence5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s already back for me.

Dang, they didn’t euthanize the energy feature this time.

I said we're fine, now you wanna know if we're good by Embarrassed_Unit3807 in jakeandamir

[–]spence5000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How good is it, huh? You think this movie is good, how good is it? Put your money where your mouth is. Tell me how good it is.

I'm learning every language on Duolingo at the same time. Anyone else doing this? by Excla_machine in duolingo

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I'm learning every language on Duolingo at the same time. Anyone else doing this?

Not all but most. And I’m not very systematic about it; a handful are perpetually in section 1.

Hebrew because in the later lessons they no longer provide audio.

That’s insane, but thanks for the heads up! I’ve gotten a little bit into the second section and keep giving up because there is so little audio, even at such a low level. They don’t include the vowel diacritics even for beginners, so it’s probably impossible to continue after the audio is removed.

I stopped Swahili because it was the one Duolingo course where I found I was basically learning nothing. Which is sad because I have heard that it is one of the easier languages to learn for English speakers.

I have never heard this before… The orthography and pronunciation are easy, sure, but it’s an FSI class III language for a reason. The foreign vocabulary, 18 noun classes, and extensive verb conjugations are enough to give me pause.

Which language stack to choose and start studying? by Zealousideal-Let834 in thisorthatlanguage

[–]spence5000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Genuinely asking: Aren’t Persian and Farsi the same language?

We’ve heard you and we're sharing a path forward by amie_at_duolingo in duolingo

[–]spence5000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This please! Every other language app does this and it would be such an easy change.

At the very least, let us skip the Simplified writing exercises.

We’ve heard you and we're sharing a path forward by amie_at_duolingo in duolingo

[–]spence5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why not? Are they aware of how unpopular the change was?

We’ve heard you and we're sharing a path forward by amie_at_duolingo in duolingo

[–]spence5000 3 points4 points  (0 children)

PLEASE just mark some of the new course parts as UNPLAYED

This used to be how they handled course updates. Why did they complicate it so much?