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Now Duolingo is gamified so you need to ignore those aspects. If you don't feel like studying today, then don't let the Streak stress you. What is nice about Doulingo is that you can actually skip a day or two and pay with "gems" to keep your streak. The gems are earned when actually studying.

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Language learning apps are great, but they all need notifications disabled or they quickly become annoying. Duolingo is particularly bad about this and the language they use to "encourage" you to open the app is so weird and manipulative that it has become a meme [1].

I like Clozemaster a lot and I don't think it sends any notifications by default unless you opt into a once-daily study reminder.

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=duolingo+meme

Another option (better IMO) is "Busuu". It's free and very similar to Duolingo. It has some gamification with streaks but it is way less pushy, plus has a community aspect built in that I really like.

It did a way better job teaching me cyrillic/Russian than Duolingo had up to that point.

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