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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide (ruhua-langblr.tumblr.com)
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[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah the new progression system is horrible. I liked the less linear one before way better. I could work on several lessons at the same time and level them up. I would usually get 1-4 and then level the up all by 1 level and continie cycling through them until they were all at max. Now with the new system I have barely progressed at all because the app itself dictates which lesson I can do and which I cannot. So I mainly do speaking practice with a cracked app. The problem you described with legendary just happened to me yesterday with a regular 3 exercise lesson. I did 2 of them and then the next day I did the last one to finish it and half the exercises used words that were either not in the previous 2 lessons or ones I don't even remember learning. I also remember they reordered some stuff when they changed the progression system and suddenly some things I already did were locked as if I had not learned that yet and some the other way around so I struggled a bit when I had to know words I had not yet learned. There really are a myriad of problems with duolingo. I sadly will stick to it because I have not found a better alternative for learning Norwegian.

[-] Grail@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Duolingo is valued at over a billion dollars by investors. The path is bad for some disabled people, and the reason they can't maintain both systems simultaneously is that their code is poorly architectured and they can't afford to fix it because of investor pressure. Their venture capital business model isn't sustainable. https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/duolingo-is-a-dutch-tulip-that-hates-disabled-people-b9c7fa6e98d1

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