I just came back today after years away and I have thousands of gems but I don’t see any cool duo clothes or really anything to buy with my leftover gems, am I missing something? Did they remove all the duo outfits and stuff to buy with gems?

Thanks

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    9 months ago

    Yeah, I enjoyed Duolingo a lot more in the past before all this was implemented. They also changed the lesson structure a little under a year ago so now it is a lot more linear. Before if I was a bit tired of a particular subject I could choose from a couple of others to keep the learning fresh. Since the change I felt like I spent 6 months or more slamming my head against the wall of the same subject.

    I have given up Duolingo entirely now as it was making me hate trying to learn. I have been using Busuu instead. I found it explains stuff a lot more rather than just throwing random words at me and I also enjoy helping others with their learning of English. I recommend checking it out if they offer a language you are interested in.

    I’m open to other options too as that is all I have. I’m learning for my girlfriend so I pick stuff up from her and practice with her as well so that definitely helps. She hated Duolingo too as it would often teach me incorrect things.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      9 months ago

      I had great success with several languages on duolingo while I traveled, but yes, I don’t like the new structure where I have to repeat a lesson three times or something now, and my genes are worthless and the hearts are ironically disheartening.

      Busuu, I’ll check it out, thanks. I’m looking to brush up on Chinese right now

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
        1·
        9 months ago

        Ho hooookay, Well I’ve done a few lessons on busu today and it very much seems like the duolingo that I remember before I used it, or rather the interactive learning tool will do a lingo was trying to be, with the videos.

        I’m really liking it so far so I’m just going to keep on using that for now.

        Such a shame about duo, I traveled and I studied Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, French with it to at least conversational avail.

        Oh well, the tides are always changing

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      9 months ago

      Ho hooookay, Well I’ve done a few lessons on busu today and it very much seems like the duolingo that I remember before I used it, or rather the interactive learning tool will do a lingo was trying to be, with the videos.

      I’m really liking it so far so I’m just going to keep on using that for now.

      Such a shame about duo, I traveled and I studied Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, French with it to at least conversational avail.

      Oh well, the tides are always changing

      • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        9 months ago

        They are indeed, unfortunately, so much these days is being made worse to try and incentivise money changing hands.

        Good luck and I hope you enjoy your time with Busuu :D

        • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
          2·
          9 months ago

          Yea, It’s so weird what duolingo has changed, I can’t imagine how they received such bad advice for making a more engaging language learning platform. But I’ve done a couple more lessons now with busuu and I’m definitely into it so I’m going to keep that up.

          Thanks for the tip and have a good rest of your day