this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2024
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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?

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[โ€“] meejle 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Woo ๐Ÿฅณ 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. ๐Ÿ˜…

My Duolingo 2024 recap. "I'm a top 1% Japanese learner on Duolingo! 214: longest streak. 81,300: total XP. 4,199: minutes spent.

[โ€“] CodexArcanum 4 points 1 week ago

Hey nice! Congratulations! Maybe if you only do lessons in one subject it rates you more specifically?

[โ€“] vatlark 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You put up +80k XP in a single year, kudos

[โ€“] BigPotato 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[โ€“] vatlark 3 points 1 week ago

That's a big potato

[โ€“] CodexArcanum 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] BigPotato 2 points 1 week ago

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.