DuoLingo users

The open box with the arrow opens up a picture of the right answer.

The square puts up the right answer, text only, with the opportunity to discuss it.

The flag is for flagging up things you think wrong about their answer or their non acceptance of your answer, etc.

Thanks for the reminder I hadn't done a lesson today yet!

Like this.

I've never noticed any icons and I've been on duolingo for some while! I'll take a look tomorrow when I have my lesson time.

Hi Ailidh - I think you’re learning Scots Gaelic? I’m in my 2nd year of Irish. Must have made SOME progress but an impossible language! Pressing on though!😳

Thanks so much Ailidh very helpful.

The same as me Arthrawes I have been on over 1,500 days and never noticed it till today. 🤔

I wish I could download the Guidebooks so I could read them whenever I wanted. No doubt you can if you pay, but I’m not prepared to do that.

Nan Kate, you're welcome!

Arthrawes - me neither until today. Well, the flag has always been there in my time (946 days).

AJgranma- It's really tricky but I'm enjoying it. It's still the pronunciation that catches me: in any other language I've learned, I've been able very quickly to read any word, whether I now it or not. Scottish Gaelic is a lot more elusive! Though to be fair, English has very irregular pronunciations too.

Have you tried Memrise app? I preferred it when learning Spanish. It’s free and used film clips for pronunciation

Hello and yes. I’m learning Greek. I love Duolingo but would really appreciate the opportunity to talk with Greek speakers apart from the few weeks each year I spend in Greece.

I'm doing Scottish Gaelic. Never noticed the icons .
I don't pay and am forever practicing for more hearts and putting up with ads.

I must be making progress because they tell me I am. Too much spelling and no speaking
I have booked into the Gaelic college on Skye this summer for a week.

I'm in the second year of learning Italian and enjoying it. Not sure if I could converse in Italian but will keep at it.

Have learnt Greek and am now learning French on Duolingo. I do pay as my husband uses it too and you can dip in and out of several languages. Useful for when we go motorhoming in Europe!
Another good free language programme is Language Transfer. This is much more conversational and very interestingly as you learn the roots of words. All good for the brain!

Grammaretto

I'm doing Scottish Gaelic. Never noticed the icons .
I don't pay and am forever practicing for more hearts and putting up with ads.

I must be making progress because they tell me I am. Too much spelling and no speaking
I have booked into the Gaelic college on Skye this summer for a week.

That Skye week sounds amazing!

For a long time I couldn't get to grips with the duolingo way of just learning words and phrases with no grammar offered - I've always been a grammar learner, and it's always lead to fluency.

However, I'm at the place where I can construct Facebook posts about my everyday life, with absolutely no reference to Iain and his underpants. Quite simple things but I think in Gaelic as I write, I don't construct in English and then translate.

The Facebook Scottish Gaelic Duolingo group is good, as is its spin-off, Cabadaich sa Ghàidhlig/Chat in Gaelic.

Have been on Duo for a while studying Spanish. All is well but two gripes - the reporting comments don’t always allow you to make comment and when you have to comment on the stories you can’t! It often says try again or report the problem - but to whom? I would also like to speak Spanish to a human too! Agree about the grammar, am doing Spanish lessons and a lot of emphasis is put on grammar and tenses!!!

Duolingo user with a 2351-day streak here. It's a very useful tool for learning a language, but I genuinely don't think you could become fluent by using Duolingo alone. I think it also depends on the language you're learning - and on how you prefer to learn. Some people learn better using visual methods, while for others, listening and repeating works better.
Memrise is another good app, as is Babbel (although you do have to pay for the latter).

Learning French since 2016, 7 years. Still making schoolgirl errors. I had to learn Irish Gaelic when in school as it was compulsory. To this day I dislike it

Anyone ever tried learning Welsh on it? I loved the fact that at the beginning it asks you which dialect you want - North or South (although now there seem to be more like 4 dialects in Wales). But it's still good to see people learning such beautiful languages.