Board 8 > Is Duolingo a game?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Pay attention to the accents

As somebody who has learned a tiny amount from it but still plays daily - it's absolutely a game

I've just begun a streak -- hoping to learn more than a tiny bit, but we will see.

Finding out it is gamified is the best endorsement I've heard for it so far.

Well I started doing rosetta stone again, but might check out duolingo alongside and supplement one with the other.

Honestly forgot Rosetta Stone existed. How is that nowadays?

I just have whatever version I downloaded ages ago so I'm not sure if there have been any advancements.

It's incredibly thorough I'll say that much, and when I can be consistent the improvement is noticeable.

If you actually want to learn a language: Duolingo at first for basic exposure, then switch to a chatting app like HelloTalk for advancing through intermediate conversation. If you stay on Duolingo well past the basics, and you don't really like advancing to chatting, then that's a sign that you like the game of Duolingo more than you care about learning the language. That's totally ok of course, but don't expect to get conversational.

Duolingo is coming out with a GPT chatting system now though. That could be a game changer that replaces the other chat apps for intermediate. But only if it corrects your nuances really deeply and accurately, like humans do on the other apps. GPT currently struggles with that so I dunno.

Because of how it's structured, Duolingo is absolutely a game. That's not a bad thing; Khan Academy is a game and I think it's great. I don't know how good of an educational tool Duolingo is because I've only barely used it, but "game" is the kind of thing that it is.