The big papa top league is the Diamond league. There are 10 in total, all of which sound like they're named after Pokemon games: Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, Pearl and so on and so forth. You start out in "Bronze." But if you gather enough XP, you can gain promotion to higher and more competitive leagues. I was especially entranced by Duolingo's league system.Äuolingo allows its users to compete with one another in a series of leagues, similar to the ones you might find in video games like Overwatch or DOTA. ![]() I shall become engorged with its hollow, forbidden pleasures. Let me suck at the teat of this bizarre green owl. Duolingo was a machine designed to make me feel superficially productive. I gobbled up experience points and gems, the game's in-app currency, like a deranged turkey. ![]() Those fuzzy feelings were reinforced by all the video game shit Duolingo constantly fed me. I had a baseline knowledge of Spanish (hola, amigos!) so I was breezing through with close to 100% accuracy, a gigantic ego boost that came with fuzzy feelings of achievement. I spent roughly an hour every morning, blasting through the early lessons. Steven Sacco, a retired language professor, spent 300 hours learning Swedish on Duolingo but still managed to fail the final exam of an introductory university course. ![]() One found Duolingo was equally as effective as learning in a classroom. Multiple studies speak to its effectiveness as a learning tool.
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