{"id":48972,"date":"2026-07-14T03:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=48972"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:02:32","slug":"duolingo-is-breaking-users-language-courses-and-its-exactly-why-i-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=48972","title":{"rendered":"Duolingo is breaking users\u2019 language courses \u2014 and it\u2019s exactly why I quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Duolingo users have taken to the app\u2019s subreddit to complain about a change that has disrupted the progress of many. This time, it\u2019s not the energy system, AI updates, or the owl mascot\u2019s incessant scowling to continue your streak. Rather, course updates have left many Duolingo users stranded on their learning paths.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of disruption remains a core reason I left the app in the first place. I\u2019ve been free of the green bird for almost a year \u2014 but my dissatisfaction with Duolingo started when a course update ruined my learning progress.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duolingo users have taken to the app\u2019s subreddit to complain about a change that has disrupted the progress of many. This time, it\u2019s not the energy system, AI updates, or the owl mascot\u2019s incessant scowling to continue your streak. Rather, course updates have left many Duolingo users stranded on their learning paths. This kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duolingo","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}