You can't (shouldn't) live off it, but it is nice and good and has its place in the world and I'm not going to stop eating it. The language content isn't optimal-whatever "optimal" might mean here, I'm not very concerned about defining-but your knowledge will follow an upward trend.ĭuolingo is dessert. Even much of the content itself has limited educational value-but it has some value, so if you keep going, you get something out of it. You don't win anything, but you have many of the ceremonies of advancing in tournaments and winning. I mostly did the Spanish course (to better understand the local language in California) with a little bit of Portuguese (since our main customer at Mason was Embraer down in Brazil).ĭuolingo works well for me because it is a game-it reaches right into that part of my brain that counts points and acknowledges streaks even though they're meaningless. When I started using Duolingo in 2013, there wasn't even a Chinese course. Many days later-308 "consecutive" days, although there are a few streak freeze days in there-I finished the Chinese course: 2020: take your wins where you could get them, I say. Back in July, I made it to the Diamond League in Duolingo, and it was only semi-ironically that I declared it my major accomplishment for the year.
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