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Strengthen skills does the same things over and over?
I've been trying to use strengthen skills as a way to brush up on what I've learned. However, I find that it hits on the same things over and over and over. It's been almost entirely the same words as the very first lesson, even though I've been through 8 or so lessons. I don't remember what I covered in some of the middle lesson because it never brings them up. Yet it keeps having me type "en man", "en kvinna", "en pojke", "en flicka", and its other favorite "ett brev och en tidning".
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a bug in the Swedish strengthen skills?
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People have been complaining for a long time about similar problems for other or all languages. Compare for example this: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/3743417
It seems to be a general problem, and unfortunately not one the staff cares much about fixing or commenting on.
I think I've had a similar problem in Irish. The questions in Strengthen Skills all come from Basics 1/2, Food, Animals, Clothing and Colours. I never seem to get any from Phrases, Plurals, Eclipsis, Lenition, Possessive or V: Pres 1. In addition a few of those that I never get to strengthen ungold so I clearly should be getting them now and then. It's somewhat frustrating.
Fear, buachaill, uisce, ceapaire agus bainne, an biachlar agus uisce :P I type them automatically :P
Try to do strengthen skills from each skill itself, so, click on food for instance, and click on the hamburger where it says to strengthen food, and then you can practice it. And, if you want to strengthen skills and don't want to go through every skill itself, and you do it, instead of pressing continue, press practice again, and it will give you harder words.
I'm finding it more helpful to go to the skill itself to strengthen whole unit.
This thread has some very thorough explanations of how Strengthen Skills works.
It takes about three days from the time you learnt a word for their to be a 20% chance that you've forgotten it. Review the word too early and it becomes inefficient, you study more than you need to; review it too late and it's also inefficient, there's too good a chance that you've forgotten the word already. I don't know how Duo's SRS system works, but I'd give it 3-5 days before the new words show up in strengthening skills.
I have experienced the same thing. I know I'm super keen, but I get around it by repeating each individual lesson each time I practice (or, pick five modules at a time, or whatever) instead of "strengthening". It has meant that I've really taken everything in and learned. When you get good, it doesn't take a lot of time, it really helps it sink in, and it also stops you having to repeat endless things about everyone in the ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ world drinking water and every newspaper and letter