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[ysobel]

I can low-key feel myself getting burned out on Duolingo

and on one hand I've been doing it for literally years, largely because it's the sort of thing that works best for me (small commitment plus daily streak plus "streak saver" mechanism to protect against one forgetting), and neither Duo itself nor the Spanish I'm doing is really necessary in the long run

(and I don't really get around to doing things with my Spanish that would actually improve it... I'm kind of sitting at, idk, second year proficiency, but I keep never quite getting around to podcasts or movies en español, or practicing in real life settings)

but otoh I like being able to say what my streak is, and I'm pretty sure that if it breaks I'll just stop entirely but I can't bring myself to do that deliberately

Like, even when I've been too sick to really function, or migrainey, or at dog training camp, I squeezed out a practice (often just a repeat of early lesson), and so I should be able to do it when I'm feeling ok

and I can't tell if the urge to stop is self protective (because burnout) or self destructive / self sabotage

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[ysobel]

The literally years thing: I started in August 2013, so more than ten years ago. My streak is "only" 3215 days. It's been 3244 days since my initial 450-odd streak reset (from two sequential days of no lesson) in Nov 2014, which means I've used all of 29 streak freezes ... in almost nine years. What.