r/duolingo
▲ 13 r/duolingo
I think than Duo is deliberately acting stupid now…
After the latest update, I lost all of my challenge progress, the “review” lessons are unnecessarily difficult (questioning me things that I haven’t learnt yet), and now this…
u/Alabataille — 12 hours ago
▲ 6 r/duolingo
Is this the most XP you can earn in one lesson?
I recently managed to get 225 XP in one Duolingo Spanish lesson. But is more possible?
u/Lenordon — 17 hours ago
▲ 9 r/duolingo
AI generated audio in the catch-up lessons is problematic
The catch-up lessons are a good idea but they're a bit late. More disturbingly, they contain listening exercises that are not longer even correctly pronounced, presumably the new AI generated content.
Course: Japanese
Issue: the subject marker は, which is also just the hiragana letter は in general writing, is no longer distinguished by the audio generation software, so it's now just pronounced as the letter, "ha" instead of "wa", usually also with a distinct pause around it, which screws up the sentence.
So what's my constructive criticism? You're teaching bad pronunciation and incorrect cadence. I really hope it's just those - presumqbly quickly cobbled together - catch-up lessons and not the entire course that's gone. That would ruin the experience thoroughly.
u/LibraryPretend7825 — 16 hours ago
▲ 394 r/duolingo
Just… 25… more… days
Long time lurker, first time poster.
10 years and then I think I’ll stop.
u/jester1550 — 1 day ago
▲ 188 r/duolingo
The Korean to Japanese course is pure AI slop and genuinely unusable.
This is so fucking frustrating. The Korean-to-Japanese course on Duolingo seems to have been generated entirely from a glitchy AI without any further QA from an actual human being.
Just look at the picture.
- にじ = "rainbow"?? i get it, niji can mean both "2 o' clock" or "rainbow. BUT in a section learning HOW TO TELL TIME?
- another one: はなです = "It's a flower"? It's *clearly* supposed to mean a person's name
- No kanji tab. no need to explain this 💔
It's gotten so bad that Korean users literally advise other Koreans not to use the Korean base and just learn Japanese through English course instead.
I guess this is what happens when you go "full AI". 😮💨
u/Imaginary-Impact1826 — 1 day ago
▲ 54 r/duolingo
Pure Frustration after course reshuffle
I'm level 60 in French. Two days ago, the course reshuffle hit. I was averaging about 91% accuracy. Now I'm put at the end of a unit where I can't get close to passing the unit review. I've been taught about 1/3 of the words. No catch up unit, no help. I have a 823 day streak. I have super. I want to quit out of pure frustration. I looked back at past sections. Apparently there was a whole unit on yoga? I never even learned the word for yoga.
I am in education; you don't set your students up for failure like this. I was in a food unit and now I need to know a bunch of travel words I was not ever taught. Do better, duolingo. Do better. Duo lingo says "this helps ensure that you receive the most up-to-date and impactful learning experience possible." Yeah right. Unless the impact they are going for is pure frustration.
I might actually quit after this. It has been a nightly routine for years.
u/Yowzacrow — 1 day ago
▲ 46 r/duolingo
What the hell is this kind of league?
I just got promoted to obsidian and there's only 1 spot to maintain in the same league? When did it got so brutal?
u/generic_meatballs — 1 day ago
▲ 41 r/duolingo
4 year streak and I still don’t know what gems are for
I have a 4 year Duolingo streak.
I don’t have any friends on the app. I ignore the leaderboards, have no idea what the gems and XP boosts are even for, and find clicking through chests to reveal their riches mildly annoying.
I’m sure a lot of users love this stuff (right?). I just wish there were a “lame mode” for people like me where the app quietly taught you the language without the gamification.
Also, while I'm complaining… is it really necessary to have me manually skip every video call lesson when I'm very clearly not subscribed to Super? 😭
Okay, rant over. Overall, I love Duolingo and it has helped me a lot.
u/ItsAryeh — 1 day ago
▲ 731 r/duolingo
Is there any chance you can just put this app in a mode for grownups, this is for children...
Im refreshing my latin, and now im a sausage...
u/SweFaidros — 1 day ago
▲ 2 r/duolingo
App will randomly take away daily quest points?
Logged in today after finishing a friends Friend’s quest last night and my May quest points were at 49. After completing a lesson, my May quest points showed up as 45. After completing two quest points today, I’m only back to 47.
This has happened to me before, but I didn’t get photos of it. This month, I’ve taken photos of my quest points every day so I have proof that the app is taking points.
Has anyone else had this problem? Why is this happening? I’m annoyed, I pay for this thing and it feels like my “work” is being stolen from me.
u/Jedi_Belle01 — 20 hours ago
▲ 158 r/duolingo
Finally!
I finally did it!
I don’t play for the awards, but this still felt pretty good 😅
u/bkmerrim — 1 day ago
▲ 11 r/duolingo
Accuracy % after completing a lesson
Apologies if this has been asked before but has anyone else noticed a weird difference in the % you are given in regards to accuracy after a lesson? I got one answer wrong and received 25%! Yesterday I did a lesson of the same length, got two answers wrong and received 46%! It just doesn’t seem to make sense, especially when just a week ago the same lessons and mistakes would still be marked around 80%. Is this a bug/glitch or it is a new way of calculating percentages perhaps based on overall scores from other lessons too?
u/intolauren — 1 day ago
▲ 6 r/duolingo
why is the challenge lesson giving me sentences I’ve never seen before?
I never got this sentence throughout this unit, until I got to the challenge lesson at the end. I don’t get how that’s supposed to help me learn, because I don’t know how to put this sentence together. there were no other sentences that could have given me context clues to figure this out.
u/sheldoh — 22 hours ago
▲ 5 r/duolingo
Não entendo esse "incentivo"
Por que a opção de 875 se estarei ganhando proporcionalmente a mesma quantidade de 850?
🤔
u/ManoGoiano — 1 day ago
▲ 65 r/duolingo
Why am I receiving this notification???
Really??? 34 XP in a lesson and I should congratulate her? Wait - are my friended receiving a notification on all my lessons? 😩😩😩
u/Lady_Paeonia — 1 day ago
▲ 7 r/duolingo
My feed keeps showing updates from random people I don’t even follow.
Is there any way to disable this? It’s getting very annoying. I want to see updates from only my friends. I do get updates quite often from them but the random updates about other people keep piling up, and it frustrates me.
u/LittleMissLivie21 — 1 day ago
▲ 30 r/duolingo
New language switching interface
I’ve gotta say that I really like it.
u/DingeZ — 1 day ago