michie198

On 10/29/2015 at 9:10 AM, Blaveloper said:

If there's something Duolingo lacks, it's the ability to admit the mistakes they make.
I'm a native Dutch speaker and I did their Dutch course to report errors and help them improve the course.
I only started and I reported loads of mistakes already, but only 1 of those were taken seriously.

"Jullie geven hun de hoed" obviously means "you guys give their the hat", not "you guys gave them a hat".
I know every native speaker will go like "WTF?!" when they read "jullie geven hun de hoed" because it's grammatically wrong.
And yet they told me I was wrong and THEY are right. WTF?!

And even some sentences I answered correctly were counted as incorrect.
I reported them all, but none of which were ever taken seriously.

So that's how I lost my motivation to use Duolingo forever.
I wouldn't even recommend it even if the moderators were dictating me to do so!

Unfortunately, I found this to be true as well. I was learning French and to practice I began saying little phrases to my Haitian Creole speaking friend. He has a solid grasp on French as well or at least enough to raise an eyebrow at some phrases I was saying. He said it was close but not quite right. Of course, I figured he just didn't know French as well as creole until the one phrase I did recognize was just inaccurate. I stopped using the app after that for fear that I would waste my time learning a lot of correct vocabulary with so-so (if not awful) grammar. 

Hola! Yo quiero aprender Español porque mi padre es Puertorriqueño. Cuando yo era niña, yo vivía con mi madre quién es Americana-Africana así que no hablo Español. Quiero una conexion con ambas culturas. Ademas, yo vivo en Nueva York con muchas personas quienes hablar Español!