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I was learning Japanese through duolingo sometime between February 2023 - July 2023. And it seemed fun at first, until at around April I started to realize how slow it was. I knew about 75 vocab but I didn't know any kanji and I only knew about half of hiragana and katakana. I was doing about 3 lessons every day. I didn't know many grammar expressions, the only verb I knew was desu and I didn't know how to conjugate it in any way. When I watched a youtube video about Japanese particles I finally realized how difficult the Japanese language really is. It took me a few months to get to unit 7 on duolingo and while it taught me things slowly up until now, now it was teaching me about 5 words every lesson and a few kanji. I then got scared because I was used to duolingo teaching me things slowly and so I felt that this was too much, and I quit learning Japanese entirely. I got back to learning Japanese in February 2024 and now I am using renshuu instead.
I totally agree! It was suuuper slow at first while not explaining things at all, then as soon as you want help and explanations, you get overloaded with tons of new words and grammar.
I got discouraged too when the lessons started speeding up, and that’s part of the reason I’m on renshuu now. I wish everyone who’s struggling on Duolingo could find renshuu too!
Duo is good in some aspects. I learned katakana and hiragana easily with the help of duo. But then again, as many have pointed out, it's a bummer when it comes to sentence making and improvement in the language. Renshuu is a better option in my opinion, but using duo and renshuu side by side helps alot, as that's what I'm doing. My username: Rex.terrible213. 
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