Welcome / introduce yourself

[duome]

We do have a welcome topic, but it wasn't meant to be (or it didn't become) a place to introduce yourself, if you like. This here is the right place to do it if you're a newcomer

[MG-29point53]

I am doing the Duolingo Hebrew course.
I have also created a webpage with resources for learning Hebrew. It is here:
http://tiny.cc/mg02/hebrew

[LEON Official]

Hi, I'm LEON Official Duolingo. I have 80K XP points.

[LEON Official]

Czech: Ahoj, já jsem LEON Official Duolingo. Mám 80 tisíc XP.

[John Little]

Hi, I'm LEON Official Duolingo. I have 80K XP points.

Hi Leon, what is your target language and how are you getting on with all the changes in Duolingo?

[LEON Official]

I have Super Duolingo, so changes are not a problem for me.

[LEON Official]

I study English.

[John Little]

I study English.

Well, it seems to be working

[Thomas.Heiss]

80k XPs in only three months?

It took me about 2.5-3.0 years to sum up 30k XPs on the web portal to reach the XP level 25 (is only visible in Duome now) while learning Portuguese.

With all these double and triple boosters on the mobile app, League challenges, match pair exercises up to XP 140/150 on the last level XPs pretty much have become meaningless.

[Thomas.Heiss]

It's nice that DL staff offers English content up to B2 CEFR level (their rating, not mine) with up to 305 units, even for Czech as a base language.

how are you getting on with all the changes in Duolingo?

50 skills/unit got changed in his Czech->English course.

A lot of skills have been reset and contain missing lessons.

I'm not sure how this effect his path UI on the web or the app.
Sadly to say, there's no easy way to completely reset single units or to test them out again.

For my EN->FR course only 5 skills have been changed but I can't even directly jump back into the last review level / lesson.

For all these course changes the old tree design and crown levels were much easier to handle.

Course updates have become a mess on this inflexible path UI.

Often a complete course reset is the best when new content gets added.
But this means all 80k XPs will be gone.

[Marvel]

hello Duolingo friends

[John Little]

hello Duolingo friends

Hello Marvel!

Welcome.

[Marvel]

Thank you for the replies I not long been on Duolingo but my learning is going well learning Swedish. I hope you all are well.

[John Little]

Thank you for the replies I not long been on Duolingo but my learning is going well learning Swedish. I hope you all are well.

Hi Marvel. Are you on the free version or one of the pay plans? If you're using the free version (like most if us) are you still on hearts or have you changed to the energy thing?

[Marvel]

not hearts now it's changed

[John Little]

not hearts now it's changed

Dont panic. Just keep an eye on your energy and make sure you start a lesson with no less than 15 energy points. If its below, watch an advert or two to bring it back up.

[Marvel]

Cheers my friend thank your for the info

[JudieLC]

Hi. I came back because I didn't have anyone to commiserate with about the changes in Duolingo that I don't like.

Only half serious.

Did anyone miss me?

[duome]

I do remember you

[MoniqueMaRie]

Hi. I came back because I didn't have anyone to commiserate with about the changes in Duolingo that I don't like.

Only half serious.

Did anyone miss me?

We are all complaining now a lot about the changes. So please join in.

Welcome back.

[Vlot Vlaams]

Hi. I came back because I didn't have anyone to commiserate with about the changes in Duolingo that I don't like.

Only half serious.

Did anyone miss me?

There’s been so much wailing and gnashing of teeth around here from the other thousands of disgruntled Duolingo survivors that your disappearance barely registered on the Richter scale.

But hey, maybe the 1,001st voice of despair will finally be the one that shakes HQ into fixing anything. We just all need to gather in a circle, hold hands, stare solemnly at the Pleiades this August, and make a collective wish upon the shooting stars. If that doesn’t work, well… at least we’ll have a nice group cry.

Thats the other half of your serious

[Linda7Italian]

Though I'm with Clozemaster now I'll happily join the circle and hold hands in memory of what a great site Duo was, and could still be, if they would just listen.

[JudieLC]

Hi. I came back because I didn't have anyone to commiserate with about the changes in Duolingo that I don't like.

Only half serious.

Did anyone miss me?

We are all complaining now a lot about the changes. So please join in.

Welcome back.

Thanks!

There’s been so much wailing and gnashing of teeth around here from the other thousands of disgruntled Duolingo survivors that your disappearance barely registered on the Richter scale.

But hey, maybe the 1,001st voice of despair will finally be the one that shakes HQ into fixing anything. We just all need to gather in a circle, hold hands, stare solemnly at the Pleiades this August, and make a collective wish upon the shooting stars. If that doesn’t work, well… at least we’ll have a nice group cry.

Thats the other half of your serious

Oh, I don't have any hope that my voice of complaint will make a difference. Just want to vent a little.

[HeyMarlana]

Did anyone miss me?

Hi Judie Welcome!

[lrai]

JUDIE!!!!!

Yes I did indeed miss you, WELCOME BACK...

[MoniqueMaRie]

@JudieLC
Wasn't your avatar quite sparkling? I still miss this one.

[JudieLC]

JUDIE!!!!!

Yes I did indeed miss you, WELCOME BACK...

Thanks!

@JudieLC
Wasn't your avatar quite sparkling? I still miss this one.

It was Starry Night with a TARDIS, same as my DL avatar used to be till they made them all generic faces. I'll have to go look for it.