500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a language app

Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by yorwba on Saturday May 04, 2019 @08:05AM (#19825928)

It gets easier to maintain habits the longer you've been doing them. Most people can manage a 500-day streak of brushing their teeth easily. So the trick is to integrate studying into your daily routine the same way, such that it will feel just wrong to skip.

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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by Mirioron on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:30AM (#19826319)

It sounds pretty impossible to me. I don't think I've had a 500 day streak of anything that isn't a biological function in my life. In the last 2 years I've not even maintained a streak of eating food every day.

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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by dkarras on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:35AM (#19826691)

How do you not eat food for a full day if you are not purposefully avoiding it?

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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by Mirioron on Saturday May 04, 2019 @11:17AM (#19826948)

I want to go eat, but then something else comes up and I forget. After a while of feeling hungry the hunger goes away or is difficult to notice.

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