As it can often take multiple attempts to complete one segment of a lesson (at least in my case), I wonder if there could be another way of measuring how much studying one has completed.

The obvious approach would be to have some sort of measure of time. I've been told by others in language studies that often by the 500 hour mark one can have a pretty good handle on most languages (though this is generally only for Western natives learning Western languages, or Eastern natives learning Eastern languages.)

I know this would not be backwards compatible to current accounts (unless this information has already been logged in each user's data set), but it might be another means of encouraging additional study, and incentivizing the use of the website. The timer could be set to roll only when a lesson has started and could pause if there is a lack of user input after 30 seconds or so.

Users could receive motivating notifications when they've reached 50 hours, 100 hours, etc. or have milestones visible on their homepage to spur on the user's study.

Believe me, the point system is fantastic as it is, I just wanted to put this out there.

I'm interested to know what the community here thinks of this idea.

Thanks for your time!

-Dereck Gignac