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If you are using Duolingo, has the site been working well for you?

 

I am not sure if it is a problem from our end or if maybe there is too much traffic or something and it is overloaded

 

or something else, 

 

but it is not working for us, not even from library with a high speed connection.

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The only problem I have is that French is much more strictly in correcting exercises then German...

 

What exactly have you noticed?

 

We've not done much French, but the German, Spanish and Italian, all from English seem to me to be correcting with similar strictness.

 

From what I've seen, all the languages correct more strictly as one gets higher in level. For example, early on, German seems to allow nouns not to be capitalized and just gives a reminder, but later it marks them wrong if not capitalized. 

 

As people use the program, if they get corrected for something they believe should have been accepted they can bring it to the attention of the Duolingo staff. If the Duolingo staff agrees that the answer should have been marked correct, then it changes so that others with that answer will be marked correct from then on.

 

Most frustrating for me is typing errors that are a real other word and thus get marked wrong instead of being marked as a typo.

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I'm mad I don't know what time of day Duolingo counts as a new day. I lost my streak even though I was logging in religiously. :'( lol

Even though I live in GMT Duolingo accepts the EST that my computer's clock is set for. My dc's clocks are set GMT and their duolingo operates on GMT.

 

No technical problems here. Do you have the app if you are on an android, works much better.

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Yeah! Streak Freeze was thoroughly messed up! My ds had had 65 days streak and I had had over 100 days streak some time ago--even when we could get the thing to load--and then each of us at some point lost our streaks even thought we knew when and how to keep it going. Anyway everything had seemed to be working perfectly with the streaks and buying freezes for breaks--and then came a time when it didn't.

 

I decided that even though the streak had been an incentive to keep going, that the frustration was too much, and so told ds to just do Duolingo to try to learn  the languages, but not to bother with the freezes and all that.

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We didn't bother with the streak.  Maybe that's why we didn't notice it wasn't working well.  Usually we use Duolinguo around 9am-10am daily.  There are times when it was slower but we were using Starbucks Wi-Fi so I assumed it was due to it being public Wi-Fi rather than Duolinguo being buggy.

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Did you know the lingot store is different depending on where you access it?

 

Really? Interesting. We only access on one PC as we have no hand-held i-devices or other do-dads (our technical term for smart phones or tablets). Makes things simple for us ... until the computer hard drive crashes.  :glare:

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