[osoba]

I've been learning french on Duolingo for a about a year now. Usually I take one or two 5 minute lessons per day for a week and then spend a week "strengthening skills" (reviewing old material). It says I am on 54% fluency atm.

A few weeks ago I tried going though a math course in french (Initiation à la théorie des distributions on Coursera) and was surprised that I actually managed to understand it. (although I have to listen to it at 1x speed and with french subtitles so it is much slower than leaning in english)

[pimlottc]

The issue I had with Duolingo is that after a while I had advanced to a point where the bulk of my time was spent reviewing past lessons which didn't leave much time for new lessons (which added to the burden of lessons to review). Perhaps I shouldn't have been worried about it but the gamification is quite effective at making me feel bad for not having all my lessons at 100%.