My finding as well - how I engage with DuoLingo had massive impact on my progress. Focusing on streak, leagues, and XP/points was detrimental. I'd do the repet

My finding as well - how I engage with DuoLingo had massive impact on my progress. Focusing on streak, leagues, and XP/points was detrimental. I'd do the repetitive high-points exercises instead of lessons and feel "I've accomplished my goal" (of having a high score). Once focusing on my goal of "I want to learn a language" rather than points, it was WAY better. I also create my own cheat-sheets for conjugation / adjectives / etc, and find ChatGPT a phenomenally patient tutor for my incessant "WHY, French? WHY is it thus?!?!?" questions :->