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		lupire on July 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak How is "used app every day" better than "did X exercises per week" or per month?

bluGill on July 3, 2022 [–]

Better for who, you or Duolingo? If you want to learn a language you need to run out of Duolingo exercises in a couple months and quit that app for other study.

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