In the current iteration of app it feels that one can get "gamified" and focus on virtual points instead of actual learning. One could argue that gamifying mak

In the current iteration of app it feels that one can get "gamified" and focus on virtual points instead of actual learning. One could argue that gamifying makes you engaged longer, but On a side note: the German course spectacularly fails to introduce articles (der/die/das) in quizzes. Also it feels that it fails at explaining declension / deklination as well. Im using duolingo to refresh my German (that I studied earlier) and it feels that the important part of the language could be pushed better. Especially in those quizes that the app seems to push on everyone to get points. Those quizzes (as much as I hate them) would be so much better if words would have articles. Now for some reason it shows pairs "car" - "auto", when it would be much better to have it "car" - "das auto" to learn the article. Other posters really commented how the product seems to be less and less focused on learning and more and more on gamification. Still it is kind of a not bad way to refresh things that I learned at school, when say standing in a queue, but perhaps reading some books / articles with "simple German" and then real articles would be faster.