The biggest issue I had with duolingo when learning Norwegian was at the beginning and when introducing new concepts like definite articles.
The fucking app for some reason does not have tips (well they do now, but they are not really tips just the lesson vocab) but the website has them and they really are way better at explaining how some things work or are formed. The lesson just throws words at you and expects you to figure out how the concept works completely on your own.
I had so many mistakes when I was learning the definite article because some words were only ever given in the definite form and I had no idea and just thought that is how the words were.
The system works alright when you get the grammar and the basic langiage structure and the lessons basically just add more vocabulary. But the beginning of a course is unstructured and sucks absolute ass without any real explanations. Maybe more popular languages are more structured but that has just been my experience and I have a 1320 day streak currently
I find duolingo works fine for learning new words or just practicing the language. Starting to learn is just hard because the lessons are not structured well and concepts really are not explained at all sometimes. Bit it might just be my experience because I am learning a less popular language.
Yeah I have gone over that hard phase quite a long time ago and now the system is alright as I basically just learn new words. But yeah as I said I could not for the life of me figure out that definite articles attach to the end of words and when they do that (does not help that my native language is a slavic one that does not even have articles like a and the).
The thing that actually pisses me off most about that is that these tips and actual rules are explained in the tips on the web version of duolingo. The app version only got tips for norwegian about a year ago and for some god damn reason they are not even the tips from the website but just the fucking lesson glossary.
Oh yeah thanks very much it really helps me to understand how a concept works when I can see 4 sentences that appear in the lesson without any additional info.
Edit:
I guess most of my rant just got invalidated. I just opened the app and apparently they updated the system.
Yeah I had to do it today to vectorise some images for my gf in adobe ilustrator. But yeah I cannot really recall the last time I booted windows or what I did it for. I jave also been having issues for the past 2 years with windows just constantly adding in the fucking english keyboard layout for me and I cannot remove it so it happened often that I would accidentaly switch to it (because for some reason there are a million shortcuts to do that) and then I would type stuff incorrectly.
Oh yeah stuff like that made my session one (planed to be 3 hours long) into two sessions both almost 4 hours long (after adding a tiny bit to the last dungeon).
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