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SweNedGuy

XP inflation is gearing up in Duolingo. I suspect that website users (as me) are no longer clustered in a separate league, sheltered from the double and triple XP craze in the app(s). The most obvious level shift is the demotion threshold, which used to range 1000-1500 for a diamond league starting ...

SweNedGuy

Megustaduo1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:31 am
So out of the blue I received this morning a weekly stats from Duolingo!
After 2 months of silence. Amazing.
(Did not change any settings or e-mail address)

You 're not alone. I also get my weekly stats again.

SweNedGuy

The 'edit my profile' now has been replaced by 'edit my avatar' in my case. You can bypass the 'edit my avatar' trap preceding 'edit my profile' but the only way around is safeguarding some of the 'edit my profile' bookmarks. Such as: https://www.duolingo.com/settings/account This immediately also g...

SweNedGuy

How DuoLingo teaches you bad Portuguese:

Hey, you should have guessed there was a typo in our sentence! Poor sucker, now we steal a heart from you!

SweNedGuy

Weekly stats missing seems to affect few users only. Megustaduo1 (another Belgian) and Hoppi (no location mentioned) are the other victims. Normally Duo sends the stats e-mail in the base language you use to learn your target language. For many people this will only be English. It is more complicate...

SweNedGuy

(...(I've seen some profiles where users have been members for >2000days, with > 1.5 Million, yes million (!) XP but they haven't completed level 10 of the quests... Not all the quests are available/visible on all the platforms. For instance I mostly use my computer for language learning, so I use ...

SweNedGuy

Same here: all crowns have been removed from my DuoMe profile for all active DL courses. Crowns only remain for some courses I deleted long ago. Those are merely a relic from the past. The only useful progress indication now would be your position along the path. Such as: Section 4, Unit 4 out of 12...

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Thanks all for info. Just seeing more really high scores lately and it seems that the aim to learn a new language is secondary to playing a game That's sadly the case for many DL users. I improve my language skills more listening to native speakers than I do learning those languages on Duolingo. Yo...

SweNedGuy

On the Proboards forums (access after subscribing only), Linda7italian is a convinced user of Clozemaster. After she more or less left Duolingo, she first turned to Busuu, complementing it later on with Clozemaster.

SweNedGuy

On your DL profile page, you always notice a few 'Friend suggestions'. They are some of the 'friends of friends'. I have grown wary about those 'friend suggestions' after checking their weekly performances. Too often it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/SeoOaRS.jpeg (I have blanked the user name....

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System 1: 80-120XP about 2 minutes apart cannot yield 12000 XP in two hours. At a constant maximum of 120XP every two minutes you get a maximum of 30 x 120XP = 3600XP per hour or 60 x 120XP = 7200XP for two hours. Hence the raw data on DuoMe should show another anomaly. I've read about the trick wit...

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Bajo: "Ayuda y Administración de cuentas" encontrarás el enlace siguiente: https://www.duolingo.com/help/10/find-follow-and-block-users Figura este asunto específico : No puedo seguir a otros usuarios. ¿Qué puedo hacer? Asegúrate de que tu correo electrónico esté verificado. Si tu cuenta e...

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Closely-related Languages spoken in adjacent regions usually result in a dialect continuum in the spoken language. There are multiple examples. Hereby I describe what I am most familiar with: The long border between the Netherlands and Germany gives rise to a multiple dialect continuum. In the north...

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Mis experiencias con el curso El curso de portugués a partir del español hace hincapié en palabras afines. La estructura de la frase a menudo se distorsiona para reflejar la oración portuguesa. Si no eres hispanohablante, esto puede deteriorar tu nivel de español. Al final del curso, la "Etapa...

SweNedGuy

Since Jan 27, I no longer receive the weekly statistics from Duolingo.
Anybody more is missing out on them?

My 'communication settings' keep welcoming weekly statistics. (I did not 'unsubscribe'.)

SweNedGuy

Danish numerals from 50 onwards are in base 20 instead of 10 (though 'syntetic 10 based names' are sometimes used to facilitate communication with other Scandinavians.) Numerals in base 20: think of French: quatre-vingts for 80. In Danish they write 'Firs', However 70 is 'halvfjerds'. (Half way to '...

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Swedish can be learnt from English, Spanish and Arab on Duolingo. The course from Russian has been in preparation since ages, but it got never completed. The vast majority of Swedish learners, take their course from English. At the other hand, no courses from Swedish to any other language are offere...

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The refresh button in DuoMe (with subsequent page reload) works well to complete the Raw data graph and to get the correct streak length. https://i.imgur.com/2VrhTLx.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VsCXDS6.jpg That is as far as it goes. The XP total differs by about 10.000; Duolingo being more generous. You...

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Corinnebelle wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:19 pm
@SweNedGuy Is SK Slovakia?

You got it right: https://www.iban.com/country-codes

SweNedGuy

Quando l'italiano copia il francese. A joint Youtube video by Davide (Podcast Italiano) and Elisa (French Mornings with Elisa). The YT video is mostly in Italian with some comments in French. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRIJHEG7Blg It also provides an answer to: when Italian was most influenced...

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By adding a few proficient polyglots, I would also like to revive this thread. Richard Simcott (UK) speaks 16 languages, but he has studied about 50 languages at some period during his life. Lydia Machova (SK) is fluent in seven foreign languages (besides Czech and Slovak). She has a site language m...

SweNedGuy

@SweNedGuy Those numbers are significantly lower than my experience. My recollection is that the #1's in the leagues that I've been in are rarely below 10,000 and usually around 20,000, and occasionally way higher. This past week it was around 30,000. XP certainly isn't a good measure of learning p...

SweNedGuy

Whereas XP boosters have been around since long on the app, they have been absent from the Duolingo website until recently. Even now double XP boosters only come at the end of a round of lessons. They last for 15 minutes. DL learners engaged in friend quests get a double XP booster reward upon compl...

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That goes back to subscribing to DL on 20 Aug 2020. Whereas 90% of DL users will easily attain a 12 days streak, I estimate that only 9% will attain a 123 days streak. DL mentions that less than 6% of users ever attain a one year streak, so my estimate can't be too far off. A 1234 days streak should...

SweNedGuy

Soon after the introduction of the snake, I also lost my Swedish owl. It is the only course where all skills are gold. Moreover, the first 25 skills are legendary. I'm still working my way through the champion chapter with plenty of repetitions. The situation is similar for German (from Dutch), but ...

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... and then there are leap seconds to keep the time in check with the daily rotation of the earth around its axis. Leap seconds used to be rare events since they were introduced in 1972. Sometimes there were two every year, in other years there were none. But lately leap seconds have become more an...

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(...) I'll do some maths to make sure I understand. Orthodox Christmas (Julian Calendar) will be on 7th Jan. 2024. Julian calendar is thus 13 days ahead of the Georgian calendar. That would imply that "Julian" 13th December will fall on Gregorian 26th December this year. The Julian calend...

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(...) I'll do some maths to make sure I understand. Orthodox Christmas (Julian Calendar) will be on 7th Jan. 2024. Julian calendar is thus 13 days ahead of the Georgian calendar. That would imply that "Julian" 13th December will fall on Gregorian 26th December this year. The Julian calend...

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Den 13 december firas Sankta Lucia i Sverige https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2-Q_ObdE-4 På svenska: Sankta Lucia Natten går tunga fjät runt gård och stuva. Kring jord som sol förlät, skuggorna ruva. Då i vårt mörka hus, stiger med tända ljus, Sankta Lucia, Sankta Lucia. Natten var stor och stum. Nu...

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The Duolingo podcasts are very useful as more extended stories in this respect. You can both listen and understand or read the transcript if it seems a bit hard. Intermediate Spanish learners can also listen to the inverse podcast: English from Spanish. The narrator then speaks Spanish. I sometimes ...

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XP Inflation at a higher pace

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