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"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No, they don't punish typos, to the point I sometimes have mistakes counted as typos (I distinctly remember typing Schwimmt instead of schwimmst the other day and it said Be careful typos, but counted it right, end up having to check with my gf in those cases)

I don't know why the experience seems so different between people, maybe it actually is, maybe it's expectations. All in all it's free, I don't forget that and through Firefox android I get a very good experience.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's pretty odd because it definitely punishes me for typos in french

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was quite lenient with my error-prone French.

That said, Duo is well known for A/B testing so no doubt we were just using different feature sets.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

In my experience the typo-tolerance is not very flexible. I write using Dvarok instead of QWERTY, so the typos I make don't always follow regular patterns. On my phone I use a swipe keyboard, so sometimes a typo comes out as a different word entirely. No matter what I don't want to be punished for my mistakes, even if they are real mistakes. I just want to keep on learning without the tool I'm using intentionally trying to make that harder for me.