Comment by grbsh
2 years ago
Also, I wouldn’t really worry about Duolingo - they cater to people who want to _feel_ like they are learning a language (for 2-5 mins a day), not people who actually want to make progress. Even if they release features like this, they won’t be competing with you. Duolingo is also the worst example of inappropriate gamification I’ve ever seen.
Duolingo is good at going from nothing to something. That’s important.
I noticed in this app, trying a language I don’t know, I immediately get blocked on lesson 1 step 2 - my answer is wrong, but I know nothing and there are zero mechanisms to learn without prior context to guess and extrapolate upon.
> Duolingo is good at going from nothing to something
Seconding this. I got noticeably better at Chinese after using duolingo every day. I feel like I hit a ceiling now and it's not helping too much, but it definitely worked.