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Yeah good luck with this on Duolingo lol. I'm years down the line and also having studied full-time over there, still far from "fluency".
I think it's great for basic grammar and vocabulary. Pair it with a grammar text book, dictionary, and media in the target language (written and spoken) and you should be able to understand the language fairly quickly. If you can get conversation practice with a native speaker, you'll learn so much faster.
As with learning anything, you have to commit yourself to using multiple resources. Duolingo has been a great way for me to pick up vocabulary. Do I use it for sentence structure and grammar lessons? No. But it's a fun way to replace the monotony of flashcards.
Yes, as any resource it shouldn't be discarded completely, but there are always much better resources out there which for me makes Duolingo a time waster. Even if I would start anew with another language. It's an app made by a company who doesn't care about learning or languages, they just want to make people to stay for as long as possible on the app and pay for stuff like to restore their streak. Especially now since they've started using AI to generate content
Duolingo is a game for points and badges. it's not actually useful for learning anything.
I believe it is called a classical education