The Diamond Tournament used to be something that was fiercely competitive. I never thought I would win it. Then suddenly, I not only won it with ease, but I'm routinely in it without hardly trying.

What changed?

I get chronic migraines, and when I'm in a bad stretch, motion on my phone makes me nauseous. Duolingo is honestly one of the worst for it. Stuff is always bouncing or sliding or celebrating, and on migraine days I end up skipping lessons just because I can't look at it.

I tried fixing it myself but iOS Reduce Motion doesn't do anything. I went into iPhone settings and turned on Reduce Motion and Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions just for Duolingo, and turned off auto-play for animated images and videos. Restarted the app. Nothing, everything still moves exactly the same.

So I'd really like a toggle in the app itself that turns the animations off or tones them down. Characters moving, streak screens, the chests etc.…all of it 😭

I'm guessing I'm not the only one. If you get motion sick, have vertigo, whatever, this would probably help you too!

A few months ago I posted about turning off Oscar’s commentary during chess matches when you have other audio on your device and Duolingo actually did that (thank you!!!!) so I’m hoping to see this too!

Proud

It was a project my mom and daughter picked up! I had to do some fine tuning at the end, but I think it turned out great/fun :)

The whole lesson was just a single stroke for japanese kanji : "本" and that was about it?

Im at level 50 in Spanish. At some point, they updated the curriculum. The system kept my level at 50, but somewhere in the update they changed a lot of the vocabulary that was learned. Enough that in every lesson there’s usually a new word that it expects me to already know. Sometimes two or three. I don’t know exactly when this happened, because I took a break from Spanish to study another language.

When I go to practice Spanish words, I only know about half of them. The rest I’ve never encountered on the app.

I can figure it out, but it’s really frustrating.

/rant

Today marks one year since I started learning Italian. I've always wanted to learn a language belonging to the Romance language family. I hope I can complete all the lessons.

I feel like I understand the words and skills in each section before it’s over. Now it seems we have to do every lesson before moving ahead. Is there a way to fix this?

J’ai essayé Duolingo quelques jours, j’ai bien aimé, alors j’ai payé pour une année. J’espérais ainsi être débarrassé des tentatives d’extorsion supplémentaires, du genre « achetez un bonus temps pour continuer ». Or, pas du tout, ça n’arrête pas, ça empire même, en plus avec cette gamification puérile.
Et depuis, je suis submergé sur les réseaux sociaux de publicités de dizaines d’applications qui me disent en substance « j’ai quitté Duolingo pour XXXX, c’est bien mieux ». Il y a même une jolie jeune femme artificielle qui me dit qu’elle est plus « fluide » depuis qu’elle a changé… Avez vous essayé certaines de ces autres applications, et avec quel résultats?

well the title says it all ahaha

I currently see this platform as pay to win, which isnt the point of duolingo. They say "we make language learning free" and shove milion ads inside of us. Buying super duolingo with gems should fix that. i think that the conversion rate should be 1000 gems for 2 weeks.

HONORABLE MENTION: pay 2000 gems for no ads

It's so annoying finishing my lesson and getting bombarded with friend streaks, the weird gambling chests, monthly quests, friend quests, XP boosts, leagues, skins, blah, blah, blah. It's so annoying, and it didn't use to be this bad. I just want to learn. It takes longer to click through the 16 things at the end of my lesson than it does to do the actual lesson sometimes. How do I turn these things off? I can only find the settings for animations and friend streaks, which are probably the only two things that don't bother me that much. Is there any way to turn these things off, or is this app only a game with a small amount of learning involved?

I'm not a native english speaker but have been speaking it for almost 30 years and this just confused me, with eleventh? How do you go with a day? And the explanation it gave was that it sounded more natural than the answer I gave.

I did it

Je lui ai littéralement mis un échec et mat en 5 secondes à Oscar qui était apparament "meilleur que d'habitude"

Sorry, what? Nope, giving up my 1,173 day streak and uninstalling the app after I saw that message. Does anyone else feel like that's something an app shouldn't be able to do without permission or even the ability to opt out?

can you find the plushie?

It was a battle between me and number 2 and then I gained so much xp so she couldn’t beat me anymore