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Seriously, WTH is wrong with people developing these limited "Toy hunt" challenges?

It's not a paid one, so the only way to get pieces is by doing lessons or spending gems.

But... But I'm getting duplicate pieces for 3 days in a row!

Is it a gamification method to piss me off?

I'm writing this post because I know nobody is going to read reviews through the official channels or support section. Hoping one Duolingo employee reads it and wonders what kind of sadistic attitude is behind this.

Idk why

feels odd that my response wasn't accepted as a legitimate answer? are we still presuming "lawyer" as an inherently male career in 2026?

8 gems…I’m about done with this app & I stg if I don’t get that duck donut costume im deleting the app lmao.

It used to be a challenge, now it's just week after week of me dominating the leaderboard.

I just reached a 1234 day streak on Duolingo, my highest streak ever. And although I'm proud of the achievement, this is where my time with Duolingo ends. At least for a while.

I previously had a 1000 day streak about 8 years ago, quitting at 1000 days partly because it was a nice number, but mostly because I was completely burned out and my relationship with the owl had become toxic.

This streak however, I never burned myself out, but I still found the daily commitment had turned into an absent-minded obligation and the goal of learning still became second to the goal of maintaining the number. It's really not a healthy way for me to think about it, and my constant jumping between languages has meant that I've only maintained superficial knowledge at best in each one.

I was originally going to quit at 1001 days, just to beat my last best, but I kept going. Today however, I'm happy with this number. I need to shift my priorities with language learning and Duolingo has felt like an excuse to be lazy about studying for me. There are also the numerous controversies and questionable changes that have soured my relationship with the platform.

All of those things are why I've decided to let my streak end, not on bad terms with the platform. I'm not deleting my account or anything. But I think it's healthy to reassess how I go about studying, which for me means quitting, and if I do come back, having a fresh start.

Anyway this is mostly a personal rant so I guess the takeaway for others is to be mindful of your own language learning goals and the effect your streak is having on you.

(included are my top courses, although I tried out a lot more)

TL;DR I got to 1234 days and I'm quitting to reassess my language priorities.

Just casually making a mistake and got whatever bug this is. Already reported it but bro cmon.

Well, it makes sense that I cannot comprehend anything in the Chinese Section 4 radio, if they are filled with unknown words.Everyone of those 4 words have not yet been introduced. And I know that they are unknown words because I add every new word Duolingo introduces to my flashcard app (Hanly). I also spend a lot of time on comprehensible input on YouTube, graded readers with audio where I see fine progress.

But the radio units in section 4 are straight up impossible at the level you are supposed to have at that level.

Very demotivating to progress in Duolingo when these incomprehensible lessons show op.

Guys im a native Turkish speaker and fulent in Arabic and B1 English and I'd like to learn a new language i thinking about german cause it's level 7 in duo but i wil ask you to im between 3 languages is german Korean and Spanish so tell me what it the easiest and what do you recommend for me i think the korean it wil be easiest

Is this a bad thing?

Hi! So I had been learning Spanish for 3-4 months now, and everything was going well. I was about to complete Section 2

Now, last week they have added these “extra lessons” and they are shit. Each contains 30-35 new words, with very few practice lessons and they are just passing so speedily that I barely learn anything.

At this point, I’m just wondering when these extra ones will finish, and I will return to normal ones. Have you guys encountered such a thing? And what dyd in this case?

I try to write & learn later as well, but I’m very weak in these ones, because they are totally random, not just one topic.

Folks, just examined the Crazy Owl Bird Behavior. It is softly said Hilarious .

So, during night hours is happy, than in 5-6 in the morning starts to cry, then it gets sorta suspicious and concentrated, then it starts to worry , sweat, scream (...I guess...)

and than the heavy part : stressed, angry-suspicious, angry-concentrated, then : terminator-mode,

... and then half-frozen & frozen... 😄

I also got those 2 strange warning messages.

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