Go to the Duolingo website. The new update is horrible. While I know I will “get used to it”, it does not mean I will like it. As usual, it’s all about the money!! My other half has had the path since she started and I didn’t like it much at all. I have been on Duolingo for 7 years, but I am done! My tree turned into the new path today unfortunately. This slows down the learner’s XP-earning potential. Why not add optional extra repetion lessons for people who need them? I have only been on duolingo for 75 days and I loved it. I have some questions. Since they have no control at all over where you are in the path, despite the fact that a bit of basic programming would have given them the tools to flick a switch and put you where you want to be, there are two options – battle on with lessons that are far too hard to really learn anything in a unit that’s far too high, or bin the language and start it again from scratch. I was not happy. Have tried to engage Duolingo several times on social media, but they refuse to acknowledge me at all. There is a rapid match one that I cannot complete at all. I loved the stories. Repeating a lesson over and over until you fully grasp it is too difficult, and I have absolutely no idea what any lesson is about. I’m equally disappointed with the new Duolingo format for languages in which I am trying to get on a conversational level. The grammer hints seem to have disappeared or are pathetic and the tools for self directed learning have been taken away. Luis von Ahn told NBC “We do think that the new system is better. Removed Listen & Select Question Type. So frustrating. Now I feel really annoyed, deflated and cheated because I feel like I am being forced to pay. What kinds of improvements happen in a course update? I cannot see any logic in the current units. Change can be challenging. I’ll just have to what now, discuss my routine and talk about school. Definitely that is something Duolingo should seriously consider fixing. There are still no official comments from the Duolingo team on all the criticism Path UI is receiving. The update will more clearly guide you through your course, and better integrate some of our most innovative and beloved features into the learning path, like Stories and Tips (for courses where they're available). Aug. 25, 2022, 1:48 PM PDT By Ben Goggin Over the last few weeks, the company behind the popular Duolingo language learning app has rolled out an overhaul to its user interface and experience,. For learners that are deep into a course, launching the app to find a completely different layout must have been extremely disorientating. Why also don’t try give any explanation for xp policy change? The clarity surrounding the particular aspect of language that each task was targeted at has been removed, and the poorly designed “stepping stone” format necessitates scrolling forever to find where you are, and to which oblivion you might be headed next. Just have to take 8 challenges (10 lingots each), but at 40 points that will help me in the league. I got the update about a month ago (Oct 2022) and I agree with everthing you say. I agree with many of the posters, and will say it without being politically correct – the new Duolingo is GARBAGE!!! You can get the combo xp from doing perfect lessons or getting multiple correct answers in a row but I’m not sure about the speaking lessons I’m sorry. I have a feeling this was a really long rant, but that’s a testament to how much Duolingo meant to me before. I skipped around at first, until I couldn’t pass the “test out” practices. While the new learning path employs a spaced repetition approach, it would also be useful to re-introduce a form of skill cracking, particularly for learners that are well advanced in their courses. Open the app 10 minutes later and it’s back to the path. I don’t understand why you claim the tree was confusing. I have signed up for a 3-month trial subscription to Babbel to explore that option. I lost my interest in doing daily language exercises because it isn’t fun anymore. I’m looking forward to the change even though I’ve been studying for a couple of years, but I’m wondering if I should go back and level up Unit 2 of Spanish. Despite Duolingo recommending what they called the hover method, it was never particularly clear. The first bit was a repertition of what I had done before and the stories are ones I did weeks ago. All of that reeks of greed. For those who are saying that beginners will benefit from this approach, I was a beginner once, and still a beginner for many other languages and I never had any issue. As it stands I’m canceling my subscription. That was the best part! Why fix it if it is not broken? I don’t know what Duolingo means by assuring users their progress is saved. I find I will only be doing minimal lessons from now on. So my serious study will move to other platforms (as it effectively already had) and my nursery room playtime in Duo will concentrate on A2 dabbling. (so I suspect she will use it less often or with time not at all now). On paper, it addresses a number of issues I’d long had with the tree. It’s just not fun now. Like most grade school children, I was forced into a constrained learning method, and that method did not suit my abilities. After 2 months of “testing” I can honestly say that older version was much more satisfying to learn. I was up to level 4 and now who knows where I am. Through years of speech therapy due to my hearing disability I needed to focus on particular subjects to learn how to speak and structure my sentences properly. It seems that a recent update to the Duolingo app (on both iOS and Android) expanded the ‘Path UI’ test, allowing many others to have a taste. All my sense of progress has been obliterated. Now I just have to follow the path. Don’t think this was fair. “And, you know, for us, having to maintain two separate systems is pretty difficult. So basically repeating old easy lessons or spamming the lightning quiz. Honestly, I am so peeved that I can’t even write down the things that I hate about the new version. Are they trying to groom kids who use this program? It was so effing brilliant, and they killed it for me. Not sure how happy I am and may not be on my app very often now. The tips are gone. At this state, I’d hardly call it a completed product and remove it from the list of accessible courses for the new users. I made so much progress in the old tree system and it’s all gone. As promised, I’ll try to keep this as balanced as I can. I just got my first demotion from the diamond league because at 5 points per lesson, I couldn’t keep up. The content was reduced. Your email address will not be published. duoplanet is not affiliated with Duolingo, Duolingo New Learning Path Update – HONEST Review. There is no such thing as a "finished" language course. If they deem the new learning path to be unprofitable, then it doesn’t matter how much better it makes the learning experience. “I have ADHD so being able to navigate lessons on my own was really helpful in keeping my attention span. Let’s just say this has further decreased my interest in working hard and may be the straw that causes me to discontinue the program tomorrow at my 2400 day streak I will reach today. Problem: I now scroll back 20 (less now) levels every time to practice. I’ll see how I feel the next couple of days, but the idea of abandonning something I was happy with has now entered my mind. I was reduced to trying to memorize whether it was la/le or lo in specific sentences, without any understanding of why. Totally agree. And the revenue for that was 20 XP (18-24) In the new crappy pathway a story gives 5 XP and there is no conversation mode at all. “It all works well for listening and other exercises.”, Duolingo’s CEO Luis von Ahn told NBC “I think it’s important to realise that people are change averse.”. I tried a few lessons and decided I needed a refresher, so I was doing the reviews at the end of each section, using the keys. I have been using Duolingo for over a year learning Welsh and find the new update that was forced on us awful. So if I use my tablet with the old system they won’t know how to fit it into the new system. Not being able to practice the speaking exercises is really dampering my feelings about this once loved learning platform. The only good thing is I get more practice in listening to vocabulary. I am sorry to say that it is horrible and I want the old way back asap. But I am concerned with how much I have actually learned. It's 100% free, fun, and scientifically proven to work. For German and French I’m using Memrise now. It lacked grammar, sufficient useful daily vocabulary, gender/noun affiliation, and sound quality mixed with uncorrected but reported errors. I have been thru management training which gave me an insight on how I learn best, but because some people can’t (or won’t) think for themselves I am forced into a straight jacket. I never learned Spanish, English or another “big” language but for Vietnamese I feel the curse is somehow thrown under the wheel to fit a new design. I was never interested in a linear learning path, because that is not how I learn things. I just want to see where Duo is going. But this new format forces us to read them, and, as I said, I do find them useful in the learning process, so I think this is actually very helpful for people like me. It’s irritating, but bearable. And the guidebooks are thinned down compared to the tips, which I again really don’t get – why couldn’t they just have transferred everything from the tips sections? Just to get 200 XP, I have to do 40 lessons. I hate it now to tell you the truth. Possibly few users have this problem. I really liked the way the other system worked because it allowed me to practice one specific part more. The people at Babbel and other language resources must be overjoyed with these Duolingo changes! I am deeply disapointed in this “new”straightjacketed learning model. I am learning spanish for almost 7 years now, not only on duolingo, but I also take courses offline. The new interface goes against most of what we know about successful adult education and was obviously driven by marketing reasons, sadly at the cost of the learners experience and I suspect the long term future of DuoLingo. One more suggestion I have would be to tie in the content from the podcasts with the lessons. Further comments online from the company said that the new update is science based and is the best way for people to learn a language.