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I also had this issue. I had to ignore all their social features but overall I think the core app is fine. It won't make you fluent but it does teach a lot, and

I also had this issue. I had to ignore all their social features but overall I think the core app is fine. It won't make you fluent but it does teach a lot, and at least for me, I remember a lot of it. I can't say I learned french from the app, I married someone french so I had a lot of extra help, but I learned a lot of vocabulary that probably would have taken much longer to learn from regular conversation with the same few people in the U.S.. People expecting to learn a language from it probably will be disappointed but as an addition to other things I was doing I think it helped a lot although I have no real way to quantify this.

borroka 3y ago
You are comparing doing something with doing nothing, so it is quite likely that doing something gives better results than doing nothing. For a more fair and balanced comparison, you should compare the use of Duolingo with some other "methods" of language learning. For example, for learning new words, spaced repetition would give way faster results than using Duolingo