Fluent in Weird.

Fluent in Weird. the day had finally arrived I remember it so vividly the first (and last) exam of my Master's degree and the 366th day of my Duolingo streak yes, a day earlier, I'd hit the year mark 🔥 this had been my goal from the beginning one year of Duolingo -- and let's see how far it takes me in Italian it was just an experiment 🧪 I figured I'd stop after hitting a year and yet, for some strange reason, I kept going... I remember sitting there at the university train station a few...

Fluent in Weird. it was just another Saturday at the Forest Glades Leisure Centre in Kidderminster... a chlorinated paradise that never failed to entertain me it had everything you could ever want from a swimming pool: it was big had a wave machine two epic slides and three blue seals that greeted you every time you stepped in it was perfection 👌 my Dad used to take me there all the time as a kid but this Saturday was particularly memorable... I dunno how many Capri Suns I'd had that morning,...

Fluent in Weird. hello 👋 first things first no, the Duolingo owl isn't dead (I bloody told you) surprise, surprise, it was Duolingo's marketing team being edgy again 🙃 sure enough, just as I sent out last week's email they launched this weird "Bring Back" thing earn enough XP and we can bring Duo back to life lol. they were never going to properly kill him off he's far too important to their brand. but anyway, there are more pressing matters to attend to like this post on the subreddit that...

hello 👋 we all know Duolingo is famed for being free but, like everything nowadays, it's got some paid tiers that owly really, really, realllllly wants you to consider (not that he's pushy or anything) these paid tiers - namely, Super and Max - promise to enhance the free experience by adding some new features and removing some annoying ones 🔨 but here's the thing: these features don't take you any closer to fluency 🤨 they just give you a bit more freedom to actually use the app free users...

hello 👋 one of the best things about Duolingo is also one of its biggest drawbacks: a lot of what it teaches us isn't relevant 😵💫 you know what I'm on about... those mental sentences that make about as much sense as a grayscale traffic light 🚦 sure, they're funny (and, as always, I've got another cracker for you at the end of this email...) but they don't really set us up for real-life interactions. this is something I'm working really hard on at the moment with my German 🇩🇪 I want to get as...