I stopped using Duo about 5 years ago when they introduced ai and changed the learning milestones and method. it completely ruined the app for me, incredibly plodfing.

I would go back and try about once every year to see if it improved and it was still terrible until I tried learning Indonesian on it 2 weeks ago.

It feels like the old Duolingo again, and has been pretty fun this week, and I’m definitely learning Indonesian, because I’m at that language learning point people are staring at me wide-eyed and complimenting my Indonesian, confused like.

I actually had a little conversation ordering food today and was able to answer all the questions and actually understand what he was asking me.

Pretty cool.

I hope all of the languages every word into the old style and this isn’t just a lucky Indonesian one-off. I used Duo to learn so many languages before it went to crap.