Jack

i last used it 6 years ago when beginning to learn french. it was solid. loaded fast. lightweight. seemed nice. had "streaks" and you could buy a thing to keep your streak. i now speak pretty decent conversational french. it was a solid foundation and i enjoyed it.

now i try it again because someone recommended it for learning japanese vocab and it's got pages within tabs and xp and gems and gold coins and currency and hearts?? hearts that penalize making mistakes??? penalize making mistakes in a learning app? watch an ad for a fake mobile game to get a heart so you can take an over-animated zippy little motion so you can learn a language again. 4 interlocking gamified systems. even if i were to pay the monthly sub i wouldn't be able to turn off all this extra bullshit that i don't want to deal with. why does everything end up like this.

(i am using a .pdf of a textbook instead and it's going well actually)