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([personal profile] redbird Mar. 23rd, 2020 09:31 am)
Over at [community profile] covidcoffeecorner, today's discussion question is about what games people are playing right now, in person or otherwise, and one of the examples [personal profile] liv used was gamified self-improvement stuff like Duolingo, and I wrote:

I'm mostly, and deliberately, ignoring the gamified parts of Duolingo, at least for now. "Maintain your streak" is gamified talk for "do at least a little every day," and I want to keep that up, because it's easier to maintain that sort of habit than "I will do French at least four days a week" or the like.

I was looking at the "league promotion" bit when I first started, because I had a bunch of free time, and found the early lessons extremely easy. Right now, I'm doing intro French as much for listening practice as vocabulary. It's still at the point where I know most of the words before Duolingo "teaches" them to me, many via Spanish cognates or borrowed English (it has me practicing that the French for "weekend" is "week-end") or picked up from menus and signs in Montreal. But I can't go too fast right now, because typing can strain my left hand.

I suspect the gamification would work better for me if I was doing this with people, friends or in a class, or if all those "lingots" I earn for things like meeting my daily goal were usable for anything I remotely wanted.

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From: [personal profile] kareina


I really love the convenience of DuoLingo, but I hate the gamification aspects. I wish we could choose between having it nag us about streaks and getting a summary of total hours this week, or this month, or this year.


I truly don't care about the "streaks", and even if I did I wouldn't agree with its measure of my streaks, anyway, as I measure a "day" as that time between when I wake and when I sleep. My normal time to do a duolingo lesson is just after I crawl into bed and as my dawnlight is bringing on dusk. Therefore my streaks count only the number of days in a row that I happened to go to bed on the same side of midnight.
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