Duolingo
Duolingo website, Group: M. Landerer, L. Hula
Advantages:
- Starting test to evaluate the status of the user in order to provide a personalized learning experience and give a first impression about the learning format
- Multimodal questions, listening, reading, translating etc.
- Very simple navigation, icons to help to orient around, visually pleasing to various ages
- Leaderboard function to compare to others
- Possibility to set challenges and claim rewards
- Possibility to review lessons
- Way to connect with people, friends and family
- Profile page with achievements, friends etc.
- Learning curses are broken down into segments that can be skipped
- Independent way of learning
Disadvantages:
- Starting test which can’t be skipped
- Advertisements that can only be skipped with a premium account
- Prominent advertisement for their premium account
- Features that can only be unlocked with a premium account
- No navigation with the keyboard
- A lot of languages missing
- Lack of additional/ supporting learning materials