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by rcarr 1231 days ago
If you pay for the subscription version, there are dedicated listening and speaking lessons on the practice page that tend to be more challenging than the ones you get in the lessons. It would be nice for them to add a writing version as well. I’m planning on creating a multilingual blog to practice my writing though. They do a duolingo Spanish podcast as well that you might be interested in.
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> It would be nice for them to add a writing version as well.

Some of the stories, maybe only at higher levels, prompt you to respond to or summarize the story in 20-40 words. Then it applies some basic grammar and spelling corrections. Nice to get some feedback, but I don’t have any real way to know how correct or comprehensive it is.

Yeah but you basically get two stories every unit so it’s not a lot of practice. It’s weird that they have dedicated speaking and listening lessons but no dedicated writing lessons (you could count stories or general practice as reading). It’s definitely another improvement I’d like to see at some point.