Duo’s also on the app trend of year end reviews and wrap ups, so I thought I’d share mine. I kept up the habit, though I started doing the music lessons too as a break in language lessons all the time.
Also, just wtf is going on in the art department over there? Why is Duo’s lil green butt featured so prominently?
Woo 🥳 Well done! Mine specifically says I’m a “Top 1% Japanese learner” so I’m guessing it narrows it down if your “overall” percentage isn’t impressive enough. 😅
Hey nice! Congratulations! Maybe if you only do lessons in one subject it rates you more specifically?
You put up +80k XP in a single year, kudos
That’s a big potato
3000+ days and 109K points?! I didn’t realize we had Duo royalty up in here!
Do you study multiple topics? Do you feel like Duo’s been good at teaching you?
Mostly Spanish but I hit my Arabic and Russian alphabet so I can properly anglicize things before trying to translate them but my Latin in college helps with that too.
I feel like I’ve got good comprehension of reading and to a lesser extent writing but when it comes to conversational Spanish or watching Spanish game shows I’m like a little baby. I dunno if it’s all my concussions but differences between dialects and accents just boil my brain.
Speaking to a Spanish counterpart one time, he told me “after a day of speaking English, I’m very tired” and I relate to that.
So, if anything, I think that Duo won’t adequately prepare you to have a full conversation but certainly to read or do other activities where people will talk slowly to you.
I haven’t tried the math or music lessons yet since they only just added them for non-iOS platforms.
Why is Duo’s ass so prominent in all the pictures? Same for mine. I didn’t even know owls had Glutes
There is more duo ass in the wrap up too:
Duo doesn’t usually even have legs! He’s just a little shield-shape with two beans for feet, what workout routine is delivering all that cake?
That’s a crazy long streak
Duo helped me through lock down and I’ve just barely managed to hold onto it since. I’ve seriously been minutes away from losing it. It’s become a meta game in itself, the only thing that keeps me using the app sometimes.
Do you feel you’ve actually improved your language skills?
A qualified yes. Ich spreche jetze ein bisschen Deutsch. But not enough to feel confident for a C2 yet, and that’s after like 2 years of study. But I also average like 5 to 7 minutes a day, so it’s my fault for moving at a snail’s pace. I don’t think it’s necessarily the best way to learn a language but it does teach it. And just practicing other languages helps me feel smarter in a way, exercises the brain.
