Duolingo

Anytime you don't use Duolingo, they send you notification emails. This last one I got sounded threatening. Using phrases like " I'm going to make you do your lessons" and " no one wants to see Duolingo upset" Lastly." a happy duo, means a safe and happy you." That sounds psycho to me. I also checked the details of the sender and it was sent to another email besides mine. I'm assuming another parent. Which is not right due to privacy reasons. Now I'm sure that parent can see my email as well.

I have over 2 years done in Spanish with duolingo. Since the company sold shares on the market the emphasis is to make money and it was very easy to see how they are going about it. They started to include more and more vague questions and poorly worded ones to increase the users mistakes and force them to pay. If you want to pay go for it if not there are ways to learn better than duolingo

I liked Duolingo at first but the further I go in my lessons the more useless phrases I learn. I've been learning Swedish for an upcoming trip to Sweden and what I'm learning on Duolingo is totally useless! I just learned "Hon lyssnar på musik medan hon duschar" Swedish translation "She listens to music while she showers" and "flodhästen ar skrammande" translation "the hippo is scary" and "pingvinen behöver vatten" translation "The penguin needs water" Duolingo? Tell me when I'm ever going to need to say these things? I seriously doubt that there are penguins and hippos running around the streets of Stockholm! I'll admit I did learn some basic conversational skills but I need to learn more and Duolingo isn't working. I'll be canceling my subscription and find a better app to learn Swedish.

It's really frustrating when you have a perfect streak and making every effort to practice every day then suddenly for some unknown reason you get kick off the site during the practice dialog..., lots of buffering, the website logs itself off, It's as if its being remotely controlled. I immediately log back in, there's lots of buffering. Then finally when I'm able to log back in, the duolingo website will start you from the very beginning, not even giving you credit for the progress I have already made. Then I start over again just to get kicked off once again from their website. I notice this happens quite frequently after I have had a perfect passing score and streak.
I have no idea what causes this, but it is extremely frustrating. You get kicked, log back in, kicked off again, AGAIN, again...

After reaching a certain level, you keep doing the same set of exercises over and over and over … again. At least this is the case for Arabic. I do not know if it is different in other languages. It is good to reach a certain middle level but after that you are not learning anything new. They should diversify the should the exercise pool. It is quite limited, not good enough for many purposes to learn a language. Also, though it is free, they make it annoying to remain on free version.

Duolingo is a blast as you work your way past he Diamond League - winning 1st place. Now I don't have the paid version anymore. So Duo stopped teaching and left me hanging with the same 5 words like a broken record. No real grammar but enough vocabulary for transitioning to another learning platform. So yes, the paid version is fun and effective up to 2000 words. That is why I recommend Duo and his friends.

Just for fun, I decided to take the Hawaiian course, and the selection of material is strange. There's a heavy emphasis on sports and exercise terminology as well as dated material about pandemic health precautions, but very little about Hawaiian culture or nature. No systematic work on the number system. On the other hand, the Chinese course is a good review for me, since I last took Chinese 30 years ago and am learning vocabulary that has changed since then.

1. I am already using it for a year. Before the year they did not allowed me to get into my setting therefore they debuted another year from my Credit card. Second. Terrible when you get into more advanced Spanish.

Duolingo is best at building vocabulary in a chosen language. After over a year in using the site to learn Spanish, I really haven't built my Spanish conversational skills very much. It is also very clear that the Duo writers tend to be very progressive and some users may be put off by the examples they use.

I find Duolingo to be frustrating much of the time. I don't care about the games, I am looking to learn a language. Hindi, to be specific. I find it very repetitious, with no explanation of why or which rules apply, and the sentences are often ridiculous and have no practical value. My main frustration, however, is that the English translations are often wrong or they will mark you wrong when you translate a sentence into perfectly good English but their translation is not very good English. The program marks you wrong for translating something into proper English...without getting it "right" however you can't move on so you have to become accustomed to responding with incorrect English!

Very useful, fun & progressive app, except for blasting you with so many loud ads that it teaches you as much to watch ads as it does another language. Duolingo advertises its Super Duolingo so much that that particular ad is starting to make me naseous. There are also occasional grammatical errors such as the following:
We didn't use to write emails
Nous Nous n'ecrivions pas d'emails
So, it should say "used to"

For 38 days I have been participating in Spanish lessons through Duolingo.

Here and there it seemed like same-sex relationships were a part of the lessons.
I just had an "in your face!" experience.

Translate:
"this man and his husband has five children"
😩😫😒
Gotta find another means of learning...

Duolingo can be free but you will have tons of adds that interrupt. It is designed to be a highly competive app in which you progress to different levels while competing with others. People can pay to assist with accumulating mega points. You unfortunately cannot choose to forego being dragged in to the levels. It teaches you to read the language but not really to be fluent. They dont adequately explain grammar rules, and you cannot hit a back button to review your previous screens while going through lessons.at least Ive never been able to do so. It does teach vocabulary in the language you choose. They also have many different languages to choose from. You can pay a small monthly fee to eliminate the adds, which is worth it and means the overall cost is reasonable.

Whenever you do some lessons and stop, they give you hate messages. They are unreliable and overall just suck. They get angry whenever I stop doing lessons so I'm probably going to have to leave America.

Duolingo is a terrible application for learning languages. They are only interested in taking your money. There are much better options.

I've learned a lot of words and phrases with Duolingo. The thing I'm most concerned about is the stories are often about « friends » lying to each other and taking advantage of each other. I don't think this is an okay subtext to be teaching especially as the app brags about teaching more kids a language then they would be learning in school. How to lie and bully? Really?

I subscribed to Super Duolingo and found it to be a great improvement over the free version. Within a week, however, I suddenly had no access to the Super Duolingo that I had paid for. Then, I was able to use it by signing onto the web, but could not 'speak answers' or access the leader board. Repeated requests for assistance have gone unanswered. VERY DISAPPOINTING!

Duolingo used to be very good up to 2021, there were forums were one could discuss learning topics and resources, there was some form of grammar too. Now it's completely brain dead repetition, just sentences you need to learn by heart, no guidance on what is wrong and what you need to learn, no access to forums, only bug reporting. It's like a competitive game where quantity is above quality... much like the trend in education of the last few decades. I now prefer free youtube lessons instead of duolingo. Also duolingo pushes you tons of ads to convince you that if you pay you get something more. That is largely false. You only get infinite lives and infinite chances to learn by heart, yes, ads free, but still without true didactical value. I am rather disappointed by the loss of value which could have been avoided. Add a grammar section to each unit please and bring duolingo back to its original shape!

Since there is no true alternative to duolingo which isn't boring like hell, i am forced sticking with it, but not as a single resource. You won't learn anything without self organized effort from multiple resources, including a good text book.

My family and I have enjoyed using Duolingo. However recently it has gone downhill very fast. Top issues are:
There is absolutely no way to get a hold of anybody at Duolingo. I tried providing feedback and emailing, and received an email that I will not get a personal response. Wait what?!?!
The application itself is misfunctioning on a daily basis now. And because you can't reach anybody, there's nothing getting fixed.
I purchased the plan for a year, and I will be switching to Babel when my subscription ends. Mainly because every business, including Duolingo, needs to have some sort of customer service.

Support is none existent, There was a discussion forum but that has gone. Correct answers are marked wrong.

I really like the app except on the speaking exercises with the blue microphone don't work 95%of the time. Duolingo customer service is really different to get a hold of. I have tried to use their automated help with this issue but it doesn't help. Other than that it's a good app.

Purchased Duolingo for our business. Spent thousands and thousand of dollars for the subscriptions. Wanted to inquire about features that are listed on the website for subscribers but have had no luck getting in contact with anyone. I have been trying for 2 months. Sent tons of emails and when I call the help number it gives the same email that I have been emailing this entire time that I have heard nothing back from. Very frustrating that they can't even help their own customers out when they have spent a lot of money on their product. We have plants all over the US and we were going to recommend it to them but after these issues I have changed my mind.

Duolingo is a pretty good app for learning the basics of a language, however, they aren't really trying to make it free. They do many things to cause you to use your hearts so that you have to buy them.
First of all, I would suggest the way to get the most out of Duolingo would be to learn a language with a friend. If you and a friend are learning together and are staying on similar levels then you can begin to speak to each other and that will greatly enhance your ability to learn language and recall what you're learning in a conversational manner. Duolingo tries to do that but I don't think it's very successful.
Second, they use this heart system which doesn't work very well, and they say they're trying to keep the app free, but they will do things to make you lose your hearts, like add words that you have never seen before in the answers. I've had many times when I've had a fill in the blank question, and the answer was a word that I have never seen in any of my lessons. They do this so that you lose your hearts and you have to either wait or do something to get more hearts. They hope that you will buy them. I would not suggest that. There are other ways