My partner did daily Spanish for 2 years and can't speak nor understand much. Its starting to seem that maybe Duolingo is a scam. 🤬
Even the guardian has a story about it today.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/28/tim-dowling-i-speak-a-little-italian-understand-nothing
Justin
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