I also have Duolingo set to type answers rather than using the word bank. I would never for a moment recommend anyone who wanted to start learning make either Duolingo or Lingodeer their first exposure to the language. My criticism is based on my experience with that prior baseline knowledge. Side note, I came into both after having taken college classes years ago so make of that what you will. In every other regard I've found Duo to be the superior of the two. The only thing that Lingodeer has over Duolingo are the grammar explanations that accompany the lessons. I have to say that I was thoroughly unimpressed with Lingodeer. Last month I finally decided to pay for lingodeer and see just how much better it is than Duolingo. Duolingo has made a lot of great improvements from when it first dropped its Japanese course and I think a lot of the comparisons between the two were made before those improvements.

I see Lingodeer brought up so often compared to Duolingo and how much better it is.

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