How to Band-aid Fix Duolingo Stuck Mistakes Items
Duolingo, the popular language learning app, has been pushing the ads in South Korea quite rigorously, and I’m giving it a go for a year. The fact that I can jump to another language if I feel stuck at certain ‘level’ of a language to give myself a refresher (i.e. sleep on it) is definitely a new way of looking at language courses. Having said all that, Duolingo is not glitch free.
One of the features I really like about Duolingo is its automated Review system. It collects vocabulary and interactive exercises a course has offered so far in different format, including mistakes that been made — you can try again.
Symptoms
Normally, when you do a “mistake” problem, it goes away. Let’s assume there are 20 problems, and Duolingo seems to create a session of 10 problems at most. If you finish a session, it should remove related 10 problems off the list, but the glitch prevents that and keeps asking the same question again in the next session.
In my case, I noticed the glitch because the same problems were used again and the count of the mistakes were falling not by 10, but by 2, which was simply off.
Band-aid Fix
On your smartphone, simply login to the Duolingo website via browser (not the app) and digest a “mistake” session until the glitched questions are gone. If there less than 10 glitches problems, like mine, one session on the browser will do.
Afterthoughts
It’s rather a straight forward glitch. At first, I thought relaunching the app would do; but it didn’t. I haven’t had a chance to test out doing it on a secondary device. This may be also isolated to smartphone app versions of Duolingo. But no doubt it is more convenient to be able to fix a problem from the same device.