To try and give myself some structure in learning German I downloaded Dual Lingo. The first time I tried downloading it the other day I couldn’t figure out how to get it to start the download. Today, though, I was persistent and got the app installed on my iPhone.
Here’s where it gets interesting, or heartbreaking.
I made it through seventy-five percent of the lesson designed to help Dual Lingo know where I needed to start, even making it past a question with an image. VoiceOver told me what the buttons were, but then I got to a question that said complete the sentence. Try as I might I couldn’t understand what to do with the stuff on the screen. I even unplugged my ear buds to let wife Eva hear what I was dealing with. She, nor I, could figure out what to do, so I hit the quit button and lost all progress. I had gotten eleven in a row correct, but then this happened.
I reckon, so much for Dual Lingo. I won’t uninstall it quite yet but when I’ll try it again is anybody’s guess.
o well.
After running up against brick wall after brick wall in terms of accessibility, I’ve come to the conclusion that I no longer want to deal with this hassle. I’ve deleted my Duolingo account. I have 7 days to change my mind, but I can assure you, I’m not going to do that. Goodbye and good riddance to bad rubbish!
Indeed! That is my only structure in learning this difficult language.
Nice you got it working.
Well, I’ll be darned! This afternoon I tried the app on the iPhone again. I don’t know if my poking around on the computer shook something loose or just what but the thing is working again.
After finishing a unit yesterday I really thought I could proceed normally today, but no such luck. I tried and tried to get a lesson to open on the iPhone, but finally just settled on doing something I’d already done just to keep my streak going. Later, on the computer, I had pretty much the same results. I could click on this and that and seemed to just be spinning my wheels. At this point I don’t know how I will proceed with Duolingo.
nice blog posts.
I’ve been corrected again as to the spelling of this crazy app. It’s Duolingo, one word, golly!
Another update has reverted the speak button back to logo other, ugh!
A recent update to Duo Lingo, or something, brought the speak button back and now it’s properly labeled, instead of logo other. Typing on the keyboard is still very sluggish.
I finally have it written properly in this comment, Duo Lingo, not Dual Lingo. I won’t go back and edit though. I was corrected by a friend who will, most likely, never see this blog.
nice posts
Okay, the energy recharges at the beginning of each lesson.
Today’s lesson, I do believe, had an error in it. I kept missing it because they had Guten spelled Wuten. I finally tapped on that and heard it was being pronounced Guten.
Gosh, I wonder how many more errors I’ll find. I had 7 energy points by the end because I made so many mistakes, only one of which was their fault.
This was my second day, and I had a problem which I feel I’ll keep having. It wanted speech from me and I finally figured out how to do that, giving the app permission to use the microphone and send data to Apple and such. But then, the next time it wanted me to speak, that button, marked logo other by VoiceOver, didn’t appear. In frustration I canceled speech, which the app let me do for fifteen minutes. In that case, it was enough time for me to finish the lesson without further hassle. Yes, I know, speaking is essential to learning a language, but if it won’t work consistently for me it’s no good anyway.
I have a feeling I’ll have to start paying for lessons, or something, soon. I see my energy dropping and may have to pay to recharge it. The app says it’s free forever but that is patently false.
Watch this space for more comments about this, should I feel they’re warranted.
This morning I succeeded in getting Dual Lingo going on my iPhone. Yay for some structure in my learning! Will it help? Only time will tell.
I just tried Dual Lingo on the computer and couldn’t get past the button where it said to let Dual Lingo find my level, so the iPhone app is slightly more accessible.