I’m so annoyed Evan, I went to sleep with a slightly out of date app and I had unlimited hearts for free for some reason and had no max ads and after watching this everything updated

Let's get things straight here. Duolingo is making you wait 5 hours every day to type repetitive sentences about apples and dogs and you gotta pay them to do unlimited repetitive sentences. Imagine how many thousand of words you would just learn if you tried to read a book in your target language instead.

Those are the same types of exercises in the early stages of Duolingo

wtf are you talking about. There is a rule that if the next word start with a vowel you say an, and if it’s a consonant you say a. It’s a rule taught really early but it’s taught explicitly

In the Midwest, it unfortunately makes sense to tip cause it most likely makes up part of their base pay. Donations on the other hand are a scam, cause the company gets the tax write off, not you.

All Americans should have a flag with Trump's face on it now... and maybe Musk peeking behind him

Me learning Serbian… what do you mean it’s not on there? ….. but they have klingon!

Reason because in Europe they cannot take away your card in restaurants for processing is purely because of regulation, nothing more. It used to be like in USA and it was generally fine, but somebody like 25 years ago decided that it is safer that restaurant workers come to you and you pay in their presence so the law was made and that is how difference was created, young people just find it weird today because we are used to things being done this way

In Duo Free you *can* earn a SINGLE life by doing a practice when you have NONE, what you can't do is practice for lives when you have more than ZERO.

I've been struggling my way through learning French (studied it in school, but I am absolutely terrible) but the time I spent on Duolingo legit helped me prepare to speak French while traveling. People would be speaking and I'd realize that I recognized the words and understood enough to follow what they were saying. I've always struggled with listening comprehension, but duo lingo did actually help with that.

Four bubbles still works in Dutch, probably because they forgot to update the Dutch lesson

Wow I walk past that everyday and you was just there , crazy world

My streak, the Early Bird and the Night Owl chests are 90% of what keeps me going. The double xp, or however much it is now, is something I can't let go to waste, even though I know how pointless it really is. It really pushes up my average time spent a day with me doing duolingo in the morning and the evening almost everyday, with one of them typically being 10+ minutes. The Monthly quests have also gotten harder, forcing me back in if I have had a poor start to the month. I have only missed 4 badges in my soon-to-be 3 years. For the 4-bubble hack, I noticed it wasn't really working a long time ago, but has recently improved its consistency. The more plain the lesson is the more it seems to work.

I've used the Aria AI in Opera GX to explain not only what the difference between similar words are, but reqording technical speak while self-teaching blueprints. <3

2000 days are you fkn joking? Especially a language like Spanish which has so many shared root words, you can literally read one book five times or repeat a TV show a couple times and learn the language. I teach language acquisition and if anything saying you feel confident after 2,000 days is a huge red flag that you're learning inefficiently

Not being nazi?

Wish this video was out a month ago

The smoking thing sounds like the US prior to 1978.

Me encantó el video! Me motiva mucho a no rendirme en los idiomas que trato de aprender en Duolingo ❤ Las gemas nos sirven a los que no tenemos super Duolingo para poder recuperar las vidas que perdimos, acceder a los minijuegos y eso jaja

I using Duo Max and although you say it’s not worth it, in fact the AI conversations with Lily are a form of mini immersion ( for moments at a time) and I’d like to hear what you think of them after you’ve used it for a few months.

I think I might have gone rail sail overnight from Liverpool St via Harwich and Hoek of Holland to Amsterdam. But your video is correct over a certain distance the plane gets more attractive. Lets just hope the Germans can sort DB out.

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I started watching cartoons in Spanish and I recognize a lot of Duolingo voices.When I was on free I found a loop hole and read all the stories twice.

Yes, You did

Duolingo is horrible. It punishes you for not paying. And it just repeats the same sentences. I spent a bunch of time on it and learn almost nothing. That was Italian. I tried some other languages and it was just the same. The sentences are different but the strategy is the same.

I got a Duolingo ad for this video

damn u talk fast

2000 days is approximately 5.5 years. With that level of effort, I think any learning using any app would be successful. I think Duolingo has tools to keep you consistent for so long and invested in the outcome.

I’m convinced the Spanish path is literally never ending.

Doing the exercises on the gold level can be sort of useful though. When you completed a language path it is better to do that rather than doing the daily refresh. Although I rather have more complicated exercises on more difficult levels. Looking at you Portuguese on Duo with a lack of CEFR levels

they removed the discussion forums... that was incredibly useful

"This is a juice sect---" those are all salad dressings.

I'm learning German, but I'm not doing it from english but from dutch! And thats so F*CKING frustrating! BECAUSE I DONT GET ALL OF THOSE FREAKING COON FEATURES! EVEN TOUGH IM LEARNINH GERMAN! I find it so demotivating that i dont have these fun features! Love your content btw! ❤😢😅

Currently learning spanish on duolingo too, even tho its my third language. I find it quite harder since i have to translate it to english then to my first language (indonesia) and I almost stopped at 150 streaks. I watched this and makes me want to keep learning!

Duolingo is amazing for learning Esperanto. Because it is a language you actually CAN learn to full competency while sitting on the toiler 10 minutes a day.

I don't know for sure about languages, but I find with most skills there's a point where you get "in the door" and suddenly it starts to make a lot more sense. I can believe that apps like this can get you started with a language and to the level where a fluent speaker in that language could make sense of you and you of them. It doesn't need to be brilliant "I five minutes away car-crushed myself and need to be taken at a doctor at a hospital now" is poor English, but we'd all know what to do with that (call an ambulance, he's been in a road accident).

"Food and coffee and other addictive things they probably shouldn't sell." Do not believe for a moment any business owner is that interested in public health. They are in business to be as profitable as possible--not save people from themselves.

I am not anti-cop by any means, even though there definitely needs to be certain changes with an all police departments in the US. I just find it so aggravating and just sad when you see police officers setting really bad examples for other drivers such as not using a turn signal, speeding when you’re not even on a call, running traffic, lights, and as it shows in this video running a HAWK PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL! He could’ve killed somebody if they had darted in the street. Unfortunately, several months ago there was a very beautiful Latina girl in her early 20s crossing at a mid block pedestrian crossing zone and a cop was speeding at a very high rate and ran over her and she flew off the hood and windshield of his car. Later on this cop forgot his body cam was on as he was driving down the street later on after the accident had occurred and after they had gone through all the documentation they do. In the video you can hear him talking on the phone, and the guy literally starts laughing his ass off, in a very scary, happy and crazy way. Then he makes some comment about her just being a young nobody and he’s pretty sure they can easily just pay the parents off, and that will easily take care of everything. It kind of sounds like he implies that the parents being from Mexico would happily just grab the money, completely forget about their daughter and go on with their lives in peace and full happiness because now they have some money. It’s extremely sickening. And later the cop defends himself and says it was taken out of context. Sorry, I know I’m going on a rampage about something else, but that does kind of tie into the theme of this video and stuff like this needs to be known. As far as those changes I was talking about in the police department, I believe this guy did not lose his job and somebody like this definitely has no business being a police officer. They are supposed to protect the public and even though he accidentally killed her it’s clear that he finds it extremely hilarious that he hit her and how fast she flew off his car and how the parents because they are Mexican are probably poor and money hungry will just gladly snatch the money out of their hand and no longer give a shit about their daughter. It’s disgusting and that man is sick. I know this is gonna sound weird, but if you watch the video and really study the cop he clearly has this bizarre look about him that just screams out, “If you’re not white, the only thing you’re good for is target practice!” But the point of everything is the cops don’t follow the exact same laws that they turn around and write us a hefty ticket for! But I don’t think many of them have an issue with it because they know that it is mainly a money making system. None of it anything to do with safety. And it reinforces that cops pretty much can do anything they want when it comes to driving and unfortunately it also includes murdering someone and then being cleared of all wrong doing. There needs to be an agency in the US that police all of the police regardless if it is the city police, the county sheriffs office or the state highway patrol. It’s now 2025 and in some situations it feels like it’s the 1950s where the police can literally do anything they want, even out in the open and nobody can do anything about it, there are no repercussions at all, and if you go into the police station to file a complaint, they just Laugh at you and tell you to get the F out. But with our new leader, dictator, and our new God, stepping into power in a few days, none of those changes will be taking place for many, many years. And what is even scarier is our dear leader is not even inaugurated yet and he is already thinking of places and canals to basically take by manipulation, force, and severe scare tactics. The US is turning into a very fucked up place, and I love when people tell me if I don’t like things, and I don’t approve of our orange dear leader, then I need to get the fuck out. But they don’t realize that is not what America is based upon. If everybody took that stance initially, America would not even be formed.. when problems arise, you don’t run away from them. You stay and do all you can to make changes for the better.

13:54 lol, if you have more than one R you have a bunch of R's then and then add 'ed'. (we dont pronounce the A.) "i can't be r's-ed." basically that's how you say that😅😅😅 This video is basically my journey on Duoling, ngl.

Interesting how Duolingo makes the learning experience SO DIFFERENT even at the same language and at the same level! For example, I had the experience of having to wait the hearts returning before being able to continue at the beginning, and it was only 18 months later that I could gain them back by watching an add and then doing an exercise, and the only reason I have seen the same story twice is because when the stories were in a separate tab, I often learned all my language there rather than doing the path. I'm finally nearing the upper end of A1 where I suspect I will finally get an entirely new story to me. I agree that Duo's standard varies drastically between languages. I was curious to try out my own language and I got convinced someone took 70's language course on LP and slapped the same characters doing unrelated & meaningless actions as in every other course, the fanfare drying the rest of the family crazy, despite them being on Duo themselves. Luckily my son showed how to disable them!

Funniest thing was at dinner proposing to your wife and irs guy crashed the proposal... hahaha

Evan, take my advice: As I'm pretty sure you can pronounce the [ θ ] sound , (It's the sound of the letters TH in "teeth"), don't say "experiensia"", as your Duolingo speaker does. The right way to pronounce "c" before "e" or "i" is this sound [ θ ]. "Experiencia" is [Eksperienθia] instead of [eksperiensia]. Those sentences you are listening to and repeating are apparently being pronounced by American Spanish ("Español de América") users, not spaniards.

You got to renounce quick bru

I used to do at least three lessons morning and night. Then they took away my ability to practice to earn hearts. If I'm up against a hard lesson, I might need five plus hearts to get thru. So I often practice less. Then they took away my morning and nighttime double XP chests. So what's the point of doing lessons twice a day? So I practice less. The only thing I've learned is... Go buy lifetime Babbel! Now I can actually understand the why of the grammar! Duolingo successfully convinced me to stop using it!

You didnt say how to get duolingo plus

This is a great accomplishment. But for those actually considering learning a new language, After 2000 days you should basically be a master of said language ( this is also dependent on the amount of time you put in) But learning anything consisyently over 5years should get you farher than this. ( I mean you can literally become a medical doctor in 2000 days. Discounting holiday breaks)

If an American born citizen had a grandmother who was originally British Canadian prior to 1949 (Newfoundland) and she later became a U.S. citizen, does that provide her grandchild any special benefit towards obtaining fast-track dual citizenship to Great Britain? 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

Wait! The knight Bus is a real thing??? 🤯

To escape this you have to renounce your USA citizenship bro ( am thinkinh about it for when i retire

It cracked me up when you were reciting the story where Priti puts salt in her coffee.😂😂😂