Duolingo app Review: Pros and Cons

This app is really very good for learning any language available. The best part is that it's free , but the only problem i see here is that the lessons and excercises sometimes become way too repetitive and sometimes not repetitive at all makeing us forget some words, also there should be a option allowing you to talk to your friends and followers there.

The only reason I'm still using this app is because of my streak. Changing the path and UI and levels gets really annoying after a while, one day I'm in unit 2, and the next I'm in unit 6. I keep having to start from the beginning again because of this. Stop making so many unnecessary changes to the app when it's fine as it is. I'm seriously considering uninstalling now.

This is a good app overall and frequent changes. One thing I'm still not sold on is the stories. I like them, but their placement in the overall like of the course is weird, as they're often in places that don't make since with the vocabulary they use vs the vocabulary that's been learned. Also recently something has changed where the volume varies dramatically within each lesson.

I've had some time to get used to the (what I felt were very annoying) changes. It's not bad. I found that I can review by tapping on the heart❤️ and Duolingo chooses the lessons for review. I have progressed twice as far as I had in November, when the changes were made, and I am almost halfway through the course, now. I guess the course pushing me a little bit is working out for me. Thanks, Duo. (I still want the option to restart a course, though.)

Some things I really enjoy about this app, the fact that it's free (with limited features, but still!), and I do think the learning style has good research behind it. The competitiveness helps me, as you compete with other learners. The things that bother me are that there are very few grammatical explanations (I'm leaning Chinese), and sometimes there are misspellings, or seemingly confusing teaching (two pronunciations for the same word with no explanation).

As an app it's great, but the points awarding scheme is very disturbing and annoying and needs to be checked out. For example, I get an XP boost, at the end of the exercise it shows that I got 50 points, but when I go to the leaderboard, I get 10. It has happened many times, way to many to overlook. It happens every day. Please, check the xp points awarding part for errors, it's soooo demotivating...