A Review of Language Learning Tactics

Re:A Review of Language Learning Tactics by nkozyra on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:20PM (#24453916)

I realize that duolingo is a business, but the relatively recent give a "hearts" limit (unless you pay!) is really unfortunate.

You can use the app but as soon as you struggle, you're likely to be kicked out for some time. That's when you need practice the most, and they're discouraging you. It's disastrous for free users and indicates they gave too much for free and/or their monetization strategy is failing.

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Re:A Review of Language Learning Tactics by halfdan on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:54PM (#24454152)

I think you're misunderstanding the feature (or maybe I am?).

The way I understand it losing hearts prevents you from progressing too quickly. You can refill hearts by practicing content you've covered already and hence strengthen your basics.

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Re:A Review of Language Learning Tactics by nkozyra on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:53AM (#24471624)

That's a generous way of looking at it, imo. If you're working through stuff, you absolutely will get things wrong. That's true in languages, in programming, in learning anything.

Stopping when you make 5 mistakes is a very bad thing when you're trying to learn.

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