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I don’t know if it matters what dialect or if it’s an MSA but whenever I try to listen out for how 11 through 19 are being said in Arabic through Duolingo, I hear like a weird D/T noise and I know that it’s the AYN character, but I don’t know the best way to pronounce it because whenever I pronounce it as how it’s being shown, it doesn’t add up to how it’s being sounded so if there’s any tips or any tricks that somebody could let me know, I’d much appreciate it because I really do not want to be saying something incorrectly please and thank you

I’m trying to learn Egyptian Arabic along side MSA, and I was wondering what’s the best starting point? I’ve been using duolingo for the alphabet to save money and time, so I’m not worried about out learning the script. (Duo is MSA)

- Writing
- Vocabulary
- Rules
- Any other things with the language
- Any tips/tricks to help me

(I do plan on learning the other dialects as well)

I’m pretty much at the point giving up on Duolingo.

1. Like 95% of the languages on there haven’t been updated in months Like Russian, Ukrainian, Navajo, Hawaiian, Etc.

2. Duolingo doesn’t give the necessary things to help you learn a language, for example: Case forms/endings, what’s gendered and how many genders, sentence structures, possible Silent characters, etc.

3. The daily streak would actually be only good if duolingo had the necessary tools to help someone develop to learn a language.

4. I’m fully aware that you should be using other things to immerse yourself in your targeted language to get more better at learning, but if duolingo actually cared, they would respond to the community related to future content and what’s to be updated.

5. Make Duolingo not like a game and more like a language learning app and approach to new topics and words within each section of a unit. Mainly because whenever you do let’s say you do Russian and you are at section 1 unit 1 and it’s talking about ordering from a cafe. You would learn very basic essential words such as, Tea, Please!, Bread and Water, Please, Cheese, Etc.. however you only learn new things from that one path lesson, and the other paths from that section you don’t learn anything useful and it’s just the same pattern.

6. Next time duolingo needs to do a better job on having an average word count in a language to be considered as A1, A2, B1, B2, because I could have sworn English had A2, or B1 for 2,500+ words which didn’t make any sense to me. Now it’s B2 with 5000+ words which makes more sense.

7. There needs a better way to organize words and also have sections for like Foods, Nouns, Verbs, Etc.. So that way people can understand how the words work whenever writing sentences.

8. My daily streak was at like 330 something or close to that anyways, and I’m pretty much just giving up on doing the streak thing and work on my own pace if I decide to keep working with duolingo. Have been using duolingo for about an entire year because before then I didn’t care when I did duolingo and just did whatever.

I genuinely don’t know anymore, I originally thought duolingo was decent at introducing a language to people and that only seems to half work with English, Spanish and a few other courses. Otherwise their other 30-35 courses don’t have much to introduce too. The only thing I can sort of back them up on is the 10 languages (technically 7 Depending on how you see it) that has an alphabet that you can learn off of by. Which I find the languages alphabet a million times better to learn rather than learning the language itself.

There has been more negatives to this app ever since I ended up hearing about them going into ai whenever I started using Duo, the only half decent thing they can actually do is Supply and alphabet and decent sounds. Though some of the characters in Japanese for Katakana don’t show up properly on desktop.

What are your guy’s overall thoughts on Duolingo? What needs to be added/improved?

What needs to be deleted and fixed?

What should Duolingo do to become a much better language learning app instead of a gaming app?

I have a few ideas, but I want to hear what you guys think they should do.