hm. i broke my 79-day streak on duolingo by accident.
i think I’ll stop using the program, it has done me as much good as it’s going to. It neither satisfies as a game– why did it downgrade my fluency to 24% when I completed the tree with a run of perfect-score lessons?– nor actually does much of a job as a teacher of a language– not once did it ever show me a full verb conjugation or explain why an answer was correct or incorrect, or give me any background. And apparently there used to be a translation section on the website, but it’s gone now, so…
There’s not really much more benefit for me to derive from it, but it was a good fidget for… 79 days or whatever, however long that was.
If I actually want to get any Spanish back, I’ll have to get more serious about it, read a longer work and devote some real thought to it. But it was almost as fun as it was frustrating, so I’ll give it three out of five stars for that.
