Chris Betcher

Hi Duo, I recently cancelled my 7 day trial of a Super Duo family plan. I received your follow up email inviting questions or comments, so here we are... I've been using Duolingo for quite a while now (my streak is a little over 2500 days) and I certainly understand that it's a good app that can potentially help one learn the basics of a language. Using Duolingo I learnt Esperanto to a point of being able to read it reasonably well, although I still struggle to use it in any sort of real conversational way (I also joined the Australian Esperanto Federation, so that helped a bit). I've also dabbled with Portuguese, Japanese and Italian, enough to have some of the basics down for travelling, although I'm far from being able to talk in these languages enough to have a conversation. While I like Duo, and find it useful for the basics, I can't see it ever being enough to make one conversational in a language without additional outside support.  When I started using Duo s...