I'm a little over six months into Spanish and I feel like I'm learning a lot. Although I seem to get stuck in weird sections like weather for a week at a time. I have been in Diamond league for 2 months now. I'm a bit worried Duolingo is geared more for answering easier questions quickly, rather than learning at a more accelerated rate.
When I speak with an actual person through italki, I never talk about weather. I find out I need to learn how to recognize Haber, Poder, Ir, and Tener in preterite and future tenses at conversational speed. Otherwise I can't hold the context for whatever is going on (we tend to talk about what I did the last week, which I love. Throughout the week I lookup words and build a vocabulary in anticipation for our conversations)
I'd really like Duolingo to focus more on audio lessons, and answering questions about stories. I pay way more attention for those questions and really feel like I am getting better at hearing the language. However, I spend more time, and I do better at those questions. I fly through the other questions and tend to make typos which are bad enough where I get the question wrong. I don't know if this trains the AI to keep giving me easier things that I don't pay much attention to.
When I speak with an actual person through italki, I never talk about weather. I find out I need to learn how to recognize Haber, Poder, Ir, and Tener in preterite and future tenses at conversational speed. Otherwise I can't hold the context for whatever is going on (we tend to talk about what I did the last week, which I love. Throughout the week I lookup words and build a vocabulary in anticipation for our conversations)
I'd really like Duolingo to focus more on audio lessons, and answering questions about stories. I pay way more attention for those questions and really feel like I am getting better at hearing the language. However, I spend more time, and I do better at those questions. I fly through the other questions and tend to make typos which are bad enough where I get the question wrong. I don't know if this trains the AI to keep giving me easier things that I don't pay much attention to.