![]() That's where the big boys play, but even getting to that point is challenging. The big papa top league is the Diamond league. There are 10 in total, all of which sound like they're named after Pokemon games: Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, Pearl and so on and so forth. You start out in "Bronze." But if you gather enough XP, you can gain promotion to higher and more competitive leagues. I was especially entranced by Duolingo's league system.Äuolingo allows its users to compete with one another in a series of leagues, similar to the ones you might find in video games like Overwatch or DOTA. I shall become engorged with its hollow, forbidden pleasures. Let me suck at the teat of this bizarre green owl. Duolingo was a machine designed to make me feel superficially productive. I gobbled up experience points and gems, the game's in-app currency, like a deranged turkey. Those fuzzy feelings were reinforced by all the video game shit Duolingo constantly fed me. I had a baseline knowledge of Spanish (hola, amigos!) so I was breezing through with close to 100% accuracy, a gigantic ego boost that came with fuzzy feelings of achievement. ![]() I spent roughly an hour every morning, blasting through the early lessons. Steven Sacco, a retired language professor, spent 300 hours learning Swedish on Duolingo but still managed to fail the final exam of an introductory university course. One found Duolingo was equally as effective as learning in a classroom. Multiple studies speak to its effectiveness as a learning tool. ![]()
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