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Re:Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO by jfengel on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:54PM (#27999345)
I just completed all of that content up to French level 1. It's helpful in introducing a lot of important-but-uncommon verb cases (conditional, subjunctive), but at least at level 1 I still wouldn't really be able to follow them in context.

It sure as hell doesn't help that in French they all sound the same. They're clear enough in written form, but French in particular requires close attention to context. Even other Romance languages draw the same distinctions more clearly.

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Re:Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO by splonk on Thursday July 29, 2021 @03:22PM (#28000305)
One of the problems with the Spanish course is that all the later content (past checkpoint 5 or so) just stops explaining things at all, so it's up to the user to figure out things like how the negative imperative uses the subjunctive case. It's okay if you've taken a more structured language course in the past but I can imagine people starting from scratch just getting completely lost at that point.
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