Duolingo course upgrade scrambles learners' progress and frustrates users

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The recent Duolingo course upgrade has left some learners complaining that their progress has been scrambled.

Some users say completed units now include material they never learned, while others have been pushed back into basic lessons.

Other users are also frustrated by the strict new flashcards that reject reasonable answers.

As a part of the increasing minority of people who haven’t yet given up on Duolingo, I laid out a bunch of changes I’d ideally like to see to improve the app last month. Well, Duolingo has indeed made some changes, but they aren’t the ones I wanted. Worse still, the recently introduced Duolingo course upgrade that the company implemented instead has infuriated a whole bunch of people online.

Several recent threads on the r/duolingo subreddit are full of users complaining that their language courses have been shuffled around in ways that make their progress hard to follow. In one thread , a user learning Italian said they had been at around level 50 and were working through more challenging material, only to find themselves suddenly being tested on basic words such as sugar, cat, tree, and milk. Other users in the same thread said they had run into similar issues with Japanese, German, and Spanish.