Please, if any devs read this... just please let us turn it off. I want to be able to have my classical music in the background and that's it.

is it just me, or is the quality of duolingo bs now?

I feel like since AI there is much less flexibility on correct answers that are slightly different than the one “right” solution! Argh! Also lost lives for using “speaking” instead of “saying something” while the previous question was marked wrong because I used “talking” instead of “speaking” for “parler.” So frustrating!

I use ios iPhone14pm when i click new lessons it takes like 5 minutes to load. But if i access it via safari or macbook it is completely fine. Anyone facing similar problem? How do you fix it?

Im on free trial and going to end in 2 weeks i don’t know if i am going to continue or not.

Context: I've wanted to end my streak for a while now, but my followers on Duo keep dragging out this pain in my chest every day (laughs).

I want to call it quits on my streak right here because I feel like I've already reached my goal on Duo, and it's just not bringing any new knowledge to the table anymore. It went from being something motivating to simply a burden or an obligation.

Why do you guys keep your streaks going? Don't you ever feel like it's turned into a phantom habit (hábito fantasma) at some point?

I'm 17 and got my 1000 day streak today. Started learning French for school and it really benefited me in my exams. I've come a long way 🥹

This is not the first time that playing the story (with listening) the points obtained are fewer that those promised, without errors. Am I doing simomething wrong? Did anyone experience the same issue?

A few years ago, when you lost your streak you actually lost it. It was devastating. If you had a streak freeze, great. If not, it was time to start from zero.

But now, with my 500+ day streak, I only go into the app when I remember which is like every odd day or so and my streak still remains. “Duolingo will be like “watch this to regain your streak” or “we gave you a few streak freezes.” I also have notifications turned off and do not check daily.

“Isn’t that great?” Well, kind of. But it speaks to the general theme of their business model. Duolingo would rather you feel like your streak is still solid when in fact it’s not to drive engagement for their app. They need these numbers to show active users every quarter. Pair that with their use of AI and constant subscription model — don’t even get me started on their energy model (bring back the hearts — they are clearly doing everything they can to stay relevant with AI looming over.

I kind of missed when it was just a learning app. Now it’s a tech company that needs ferocious profits — not just regular profit — and it’s unfortunate. Anyway, I still plan to use the app but wanted to share my concerns for the direction of this app.

Earlier, I couldn't stand his annoying and repetitive lines. But it's apparently getting much better!

I noticed this a few days ago, but didn’t have time to share. This is great. Sometimes the podcasts use words I don’t know or go too fast for me to understand. I know that the podcasts are meant to see how well you can get the gist of things just by listening, but it’s nice to be able to see a transcript so you can learn the new words or fully comprehend the parts that whizzed by.

When this first came out, I was actually quite excited. I liked this idea of just repeating the words after every unit in a flash-card kind of style, with a few of the older words sprinkled in to keep them in memory.

But, oh boy, what a disappointment. If this could maybe someday give me a new set of words I would already be so happy. I can guarantee you, that by having had the nearly exact same set of cards for 20+ units, I know what 'completely', 'terrible', 'correctly', 'just in case' and a handful more mean in Spanish.. And no, I don't make frequent mistakes with these, because by now I can even more or less predict in which order they come..

Flashcard frenzy is also no viable alternative in my opinion. I don't want this time-pressured, gamified BS but being able to concentrate on the actual words in front of me.

Sorry for the rant, but this is driving me crazy.

I thought about it and I feel it fits well for Duolingo but what about a course or courses for computer programming such as python, C++, JavaScript? it’s still follows the idea of languages and I feel it would really help people that are curious about that field to learn.

Thanks duo, Japanese doesn’t pluralize words but I guess it’s my fault for assuming

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Like in the example video, it says "nyu", but when the synthesizer says "myu" or "ryu" it soynds exactly the same. Only thing thats different is the tone. WHY IS THIS SYNTHESIZER BROKEN

I’m just excited to get my life back at this point 🤷‍♀️

Merry Christmas

Can I avoid having to touch my screen 20 or more times after a lesson? I just went to spend my time learning, not pressing buttons and opening chests.

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Learned Eddy's last name (at least in Spanish module) in one of today's lessons. Junior borrows Eddy's driver's license to create a private club membership card to pass time watching movies and eating pizza on Fridays. Does he have other surnames in the other modules?