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Hey, I don't want to discourage your language learning, but duolingo really sucks as a language learning platform. It honestly doesn't teach you anything about actually using a language.
You might be much better served by using something like babbel, memrise or even better, Rosetta Stone. They are paid options, but well worth the price I think.
We got it for funsies and went through the final Spanish test. We're both fluent speakers, he's native. We were unable to pass the final tests--not because we didn't speak Spanish, but because it was actually a subjective interpretation of what was being said rather than an objective one, btu they treated it like it were objective. Basically you have to learn it THEIR way. As a linguist, this is a big no-no and I walked away.
This is the answer.
Stop supporting Duolingo.
Rosetta Stone is there under the black flags too.
I would love to switch to something else but I have not found anything that peopme say is good that offers Norwegian. Do you have any suggestions?
The best one is Language Transfer. Completely free (I'm a patron, though) and speaking as someone who has learned five languages aside from English, this is the best system outside of full immersion.