Duolingo just updated their Chinese lessons. Which means there are a bunch of words in earlier sections I don’t know and my progress for a bit messed up. It’s not the end of the world, but I’m seriously considering deleting my account’s progress in their Chinese course so that I can go through the whole thing again.
I’ve leaned on the gamification/completionist element in the past and same, when they updated I felt obliged to go back and clear all the levels again.
I wasn’t too happy with my relationship to / reliance on the gamification. Works well when it does work, is really demotivating when it doesn’t.
Yeah I just hit diamond and I suddenly went from being really excited to look at the leaderboard to absolutely dreading it. Before diamond I was consistently in the top 3-5 every week, now I’m like grinding lessons just to not drop down. It’s good though because it does make me want to learn more.
Duolingo just updated their Chinese lessons. Which means there are a bunch of words in earlier sections I don’t know and my progress for a bit messed up. It’s not the end of the world, but I’m seriously considering deleting my account’s progress in their Chinese course so that I can go through the whole thing again.
I’ve leaned on the gamification/completionist element in the past and same, when they updated I felt obliged to go back and clear all the levels again.
I wasn’t too happy with my relationship to / reliance on the gamification. Works well when it does work, is really demotivating when it doesn’t.
Yeah I just hit diamond and I suddenly went from being really excited to look at the leaderboard to absolutely dreading it. Before diamond I was consistently in the top 3-5 every week, now I’m like grinding lessons just to not drop down. It’s good though because it does make me want to learn more.