Section 4 unit 41 story not recognising Portuguese

[John Little]

Another anomaly this morning The story about Lin forgetting to cook the egg for Lucy's lunch will not accept a description of the story in Portuguese and insists that whatever you write is in the wrong language. My answer may not have been perfect but it was close enough to be recognised as Portuguese.

I have submitted a bug report.

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[Explorer]

I'm almost done with section 4 and it seems clear they just released it without checking anything, at least not by a human. The number of bugs and mistakes is ridiculous. I guess they expect users to do the beta testing for free.

[Thomas.Heiss]

I guess they expect users to do the beta testing for free.

As if it had ever been any different at Duolingo in the last 9 years

I only know that DL staff inquired about some alpha tests when they started working on a new EN->ES CEFR course.
I think I'll stick with EN->FR for a while as it's not AI generated content, AFAIK.

Next question is how many contractors or linguistic staff is left to do any reviews, bugfixes, etc.
I only know that they haven't renewed several contractors Q4 / end of 2023 which was posted on Reddit.

Any deadline pressure is contra productive for quality of content.

I don't believe theres a QC department where people are instructed to test the app or new courses for several weeks or months.
Always felt like code gets directly released from a trunk/master developer repository.

Would take significant man power and money to review course content before they globally roll it out to test A/B groups.
In other language pairs the AIgen content was heavily criticized already.
Especially with German as a native language where sentences don't make much sense, I heard.

I don't have immediate plans to start the new DE->PT course.
For my changed EN->PT course I first need to find a way to retest out of units on a review level without having to redo all path levels / lessons manually (for units which haven't been reset).

[John Little]

Same problem different story. Unit 4 section 46. Story about Lucy and Oscar in a small restaurant. I tried it twice and the second time used Google translate to make sure my Portuguese was correct and it just refused to accept what I wrote.

Oscar achou que não ia gostar da comida, mas gostou tanto que comeu três pratos cheios.

Bug report sent.