Wait what

[soc_puppet]

Lesson exercises for DuoLingo on my phone: Make sound by default, with many different performers of varying quality, may or may not involve phone typing, and after Section One always have at least seventeen exercises per set.

Lesson exercises for DuoLingo on my laptop: No sounds (so no hearing what things sound like), frequently or always involve typing (which I'm faster at, aside from letters that don't appear on my keyboard), include actual readable lessons, only ten exercises per set???

Granted, I've only done the one exercise set on my computer since before DuoLingo completely revamped the Esperanto course (a very brief time after I managed to finish the pre-vamped course), but this is, uh. Hmm. I'm going to go with "perplexing" for now, I think.

Comments

[satsuma]

huh that's odd, it doesn't seem like it'd be worthwhile to design completely different courses for laptop vs phone (especially having such a large difference in the number of lessons per set! Maybe they think the laptop lessons are harder, so you don't need to do as many of them to prove you know the thing?? Or...something)

[soc_puppet]

I think that's the logic? A number of phone exercises per set have a selection of words to choose from as a translation of the phrase you're given (and you may or may not use all of them), but there's still a lot of typing. That is, in the Level 4 version of the courses; I haven't done any comparison with less advanced lessons.

Oh, I do have a correction to make: The Esperanto phrases on desktop have the option to play an audio version, I just didn't notice it right away since it's auto-play on the phone. Plus, with the phone "pick the right words" thing, a lot of the more common individual words also have audio files that play whenever you tap them, which includes both selecting and de-selecting, and is to my mind one of the more annoying aspects of the mobile version.