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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by blacksqr on Saturday May 04, 2019 @11:48AM (#19827173)
>the app has been too optimized for user engagement instead of efficient learning

Yes. As an ad-supported app, the developers overwhelming motivation is to get users to take the next lesson, rather than to progress them toward mastery. The app seems designed to stimulate every reward center in the brain toward that end, the mechanisms for which usually ending up getting in the way of accessing the lesson content efficiently.

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Re:500 days of Duolingo: What you can and can’t learn from a... by dashundchen on Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:40PM (#19827531)
Duolingo also has a website, which is what I used studying German 6 years ago. Not only did it not have ads (don't know if that's still true), input with he keyboard was much easier and I felt gave me a little more memory than swiping a keyboard.

At that time each grammar lesson also had a page summarising the rules you were about to learn with examples and explainations.

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