Principal engineer at Mercury. I've authored the Dhall configuration language, the Haskell for all blog, and countless packages and keynote presentations.
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One of the things that's really frustrating about Duolingo is that it doesn't really explain much. For example, it took me forever to figure out that "im"/"ins" were contractions for "in dem"/"in das" and that "zum"/"zur" were contractions for "zu dem"/"zu der".
Each section has a few notes of instruction but they usually don't explain stuff like this.
duolingo just seems to look at the camps of book learning and mass input, and compromise by being the worst of both worlds :/
Yeah, I had this problem with Duolingo German as well - they barely explain anything, which is even more unhelpful with some of the more advanced stuff. I'm currently looking around for alternatives because I've just not really felt like I've learned anything from it recently...
