The great reset
“My dictionary backs me up on this one: free is not a sunonym for “hopelessly inconvenient”. For some time now (2167 consecutive days), I have been using a popular software app to learn another languge. I will name, without shame: Duolingo. Made some reasonable progress, and demonstrated to myself that I can “stick with it”. You can do the math, while I try to grin and bear it.
Today, the interface changed. A lot. Without warning and without any way to avoid the ditch. I can’t find my way, right now. I’ll ask someome else for charification, but this is not familiary territiry. Foreign language. And I am disappointed, because I can’t find a single reason for the “renewed interface”.
There may have been a meeting of minds, but as someone that spent a lifetime trying to educate others, change for the sake of chaange is counterproductive. Leaves the learner frustrated. Yup, that is me.
In a worst case secnario, I will abandom my streak and return to an old text book that is around here, somewheres. Or I can resort to listening to texts that are out there. But, I was having fun. The app allowed me to measure my fading vision. Now, I am back to a subjective state, as I wait for my next consutation with the doctor. So much for allowing me to control my destiny. No, I never had aby control. Le’t go with evaluation. That’s educcational.
There has to be a better way. Free should mean freedom. Not like this. The great mind that switched things up because he was bored deserves a reset.
