To finally let go of my Duolingo Streak?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

Its 1460 days - but all i seem to do is use streak freezes or do easy lessons rather than further my actual learning

Time to let go and find something else?

Yabu - keep it, and work harder
Yanbu - let it go, youve clearly over it

Let it go! I'm seeing out my 2331 to 2350 and uninstalling the app.

Let it go. It’s such a relief!

Literally on the days where ive done a lesson, its been ONE lesson. I even scroll back to level one and done the basic phrases 😅😅

Mine, though much shorter (675 days) than yours, is a millstone round my neck. I'm trying to gear myself up to walk away.

I've been thinking about letting mine go but I'm getting close to finishing the course (it's short compared to some of the languages). Probably when I finish and before I start another.

well done. I did 365 days, screenshotted it then Deleted the app. Never looked back!

I made it to 1650 back in October and was ending up doing exactly as you said - easy lessons at 11:50pm. I don’t miss it!

I do all my lessons on Saturday & Sunday for the whole week to maintain my place in the diamond league 🤣🤣 you just change the date on your phone for each lesson

Honestly I dont believe its actually a streak if you use a freeze- it might be counting but lets be real- it isnt actually a streak, so you might as well let it go

Now this is genius!!

😄 this is me, sighing and eyerolling whilst I do it 😄

Let it go! I made it to a bit over 1500 last year and decided to end it on New Year's Eve 2024. I felt I was doing lessons for the sake of it rather than learning anything useful by the end, and have no regrets about quitting.

Let it go!

I once had a 1000+ day streak on Duolingo, but by the end it felt like the streak had me. I was worrying about it, doing lessons at stupid times of the day and night. I didn't even enjoy it anymore, but felt I had to keep the streak going because it was so long. It's the definition of a sunk cost fallacy.

Once I released it I felt like a weight had been lifted, and that experience cured me of all other 'streak keeping' behaviour, like with Wordle etc.

Maybe I'm a way behind at 485 days, but I feel I'm still learning. There are some days where I only do one lesson to not lose the streak, but mostly I actually learn something. And mostly do 30 mins.

Is anyone more fluent, or is it just about the streak?

I'd say its been a great starter

I'd say i'm at a2/b1 now thanks to it

But they changed the lesson style, so you have to follow their timeline rather than doing things your own way, which was, for me, the nail in the coffin

If you can, do your lessons with a pen and paper in hand, writing down everything, which will definitely help xx

100% this, I am abandoning it

Agree, its at the point where its just keeping the numbers up, rather than loving learning 🥺🥺

Memrise is really good content, but harder to navigate than Duolingo

I have never got above 100 days even though I do Duolingo regularly. Above 85 days it becomes too stressful!

I tested at B1 in a language I had no prior knowledge of, but I also used anki cards for vocabulary and bought some audiobooks and listened to radio in the language.

I’m at 445 and am fairly determined to finish the Spanish course which at this rate will be late next year

i really do have a love hate relationship with if. No way do you get fluent but I’ve def learnt a lot

Are you all subscribers or freebies ?

I had a 900 (forgetten number now) and I stopped one day and literally never thought of it again. Despite it being a daily habit for just under three years. I also didn’t ever really progress in my language learning. Also I go to fed up of that owl thing sending me notifications- as others have said, it was a relief.

I still enjoy it, but 'only' have a 390 day streak. Finished German and am doing Spanish now but flip back to easier (to me) German refreshers to keep getting triple XP for the following day. Much easier to get a 'perfect' lesson in German.
But that "woohoo, you're ready for hard mode now" drives me absolutely around the bend.

Another one saying to let it go, it's a relief!