Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up π
How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
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I stopped using duolingo a couple years ago because I noticed I was just doing the bare minimum to maintain my streak instead of actually learning something new.
that actually helped me remember that my target language exists, it was good for me to at least have a brush with some learning on the days that i just didn't feel like doing much.
what was the final nail on the coffin for me was duolingo neutering the japanese course, they delayed introducing kanji so hard i was seeing the most basic basics like ζ―, ηΆ, θͺ, even δ½ in hiragana, which made the course deeply counterproductive as reading japanese in hiragana only, when you know the kanji already slows you down considerably. consider: γ―γ―γ―γ―γͺγγγ£γ¦γγΎγ vs ζ―γ―θ±γζγ£γ¦γγΎγ, both mean "my mum has a flower" but one of them has a string of γ― you need to decipher the meaning of first before you can understand the sentence, the other's meaning can be understood instantly
That's a shame. Duolingo was never great for learning kana, so I guess they thought to use it more in lessons, but they should've just improved the dedicated kana lessons instead. I had learned kana before using duolingo so it was a smooth transition to take on sentences introducing more and more kanji. It sucks that they're just making things worse since there were some nice things about the app before.
Same thing happened to me. Also when trying something new, failing took something like gems or hearts. That made it so I only grinded the very easy lessons to get the gems and never actually using them.
Oh yeah, that's another thing! They made it tedious to make progress, probably in an attempt to squeeze out more money, but I ended up just losing motivation for actually learning because it became a drag.
if a non shit app would add an "import streak" feature (just make me upload a screenshot or type in the number) id switch in a heart beat.
Why is a streak so important?
bc ive been at it for over 3.5 years https://youtube.com/shorts/b4C8yeQ1NCM