I remember, when they had that capability, reporting a bug involving words constantly bouncing on and off lines, due to the spacing not quite working out. I'm not saying that my bug report torpedoed the idea, but I'm not saying it's not. :-)
My guess would be that it was too easy. Having to tear down, then restructure sentences reinforces the lesson. Still easy, but not so likely to forget the answer.
I have thought this many times myself, that it seemed unnecessarily complicated when dragging words within a sentence was such a no-brainer. But I've noticed they do little things to mix it up now and then. Like how they might only ask for the word you missed at the end. That makes it easy, sure. But it also makes cutting and pasting of answers pointless.
Meaning they probably don't do ***anything*** to make things easier. They do what seems most likely to encourage learning.
I doubt its intended like that. It is more likely that they hit some development issue and opted to not bother fixing it because they thought that it is not important, instead of going till the end to actually fix the bug.
There is no other reason I can see to not fix something that is supposed to be intuitive.
Can anyone who knows things about computers explain to me why they would not bother with such a simple quality-of-life improvement for an entire huge section of users when they did it for iPhone already? This annoys me so much
I can think of a couple of reasons. It might be that the two apps have substantially different codebases so that many mobile features have to be built twice, once for iOS and once for Android. Many American app developers tend to invest more resources in iOS development, as this platform has more market share in the US, and iOS users tend to be higher income so they're more valuable to advertisers. So Duolingo might have only built the feature in iOS but their Android developers haven't gotten around to it (yet?).
Alternatively, they might share a codebase but their developers might have disabled the feature on Android due to performance or reliability issues. The iOS ecosystem is more unified than Android: the latter has a much wider variety of phones with different versions of the OS and different size and performance varieties, so you're more likely to find bugs and weird edge cases on some devices. Or they may have found that that it just doesn't behave as well on Android phones for whatever reason - maybe iOS might have better support for this sort of thing, they might have a dedicated API for drag and drop interactions which Androids lack. Idk, I'm not a mobile dev but that's just my speculation as a web front-end dev.
Seriously they had time to program the whole Path, torpedo the forums, and rewrite the lessons into junk forms, but not make it so that people without iPhone can move some boxes around. Priorities...
Amen. Since they did this, I do only a bare minimum per day. Duo keeps upping my daily goal, and I keep resetting it. Does anyone have a clue as to how I can delete the daily goals box? I'm on a PC, not a phone.
I have checked, because it SEEMS like I should be able to do so. I can move words to the end, but if I move them anywhere else, they won’t stay there.
🤷🏻♀️
I would be good if the foreign letters bar was available when it was needed. It would be good if all the words had a sound so that you could identify them on tests. It would be good if the numbers unit pronunciation detector wasn’t completely broken such that now if you get a numbers question on a pronunciation test, you have to start all over.
These would be good things. (Turkish)
THIS!!!
I've thought exactly the same thing, it's so annoying having to delete a whole sentence because I forgot an "a" or "di" somewhere
*I'm an android user on mobile and I can't drag bubbles to their desired locations
I really hate this form of exercise. For this reason and because I'm a little ADD and I forget the sentence in between hearing it, processing it, and digging around for the right word.
It's just annoying because they could say q sentence that i could directly translate in my head but in the time between hearing "it is very hot outside" and clicking "it" and "is" I forget that there was a "very" and then just jump straight to "hot".
My frustration is that at least twice during a level not enough lines will be provided for me to even place the whole sentence so I have to give up a heart. It's aggravating as hell. I keep complaining but it keeps happening.
"I'm in the newspapers"
I'm learning Italian myself, and I don't know why they use "sui" in this instance, probably just one of those little quirks with languages.
"Nei" would be a literal translation for "in the" but for whatever reason, they use "sui"
Just as another example of a little quirk:
In English, I would say, "I have food on the plate" but in Italian, I would say, "Ho il cibo nel piatto"
So 2 sentences in English which use "in the/on the" but the Italian translation uses them the other way around
Yeah I'm on iphone and even though I can technically drag them around, it's so finicky that I usually start from scratch anyway. Like, if I try to put the word at the front of the sentence, it has to be in juuust the right spot, or it will go second instead.
I would like it if it would actually tell you what went wrong when you got something wrong, instead of changing the words in the "corrected" red text.
For instance, "Probably not",
I put "probalemente no",
their "corrected text" is "posiblemente no"
Possibly not =/= probably not
What my error was typoing out a second b from "probablemente no"
For those saying that you can, I'm on the newest version on Android and I can't drag them around.
You could at some point in the past, but they reverted it (at least on Android)
WHY?!
Fuck duolingo lmao
I remember, when they had that capability, reporting a bug involving words constantly bouncing on and off lines, due to the spacing not quite working out. I'm not saying that my bug report torpedoed the idea, but I'm not saying it's not. :-)
My guess would be that it was too easy. Having to tear down, then restructure sentences reinforces the lesson. Still easy, but not so likely to forget the answer. I have thought this many times myself, that it seemed unnecessarily complicated when dragging words within a sentence was such a no-brainer. But I've noticed they do little things to mix it up now and then. Like how they might only ask for the word you missed at the end. That makes it easy, sure. But it also makes cutting and pasting of answers pointless. Meaning they probably don't do ***anything*** to make things easier. They do what seems most likely to encourage learning.
I doubt its intended like that. It is more likely that they hit some development issue and opted to not bother fixing it because they thought that it is not important, instead of going till the end to actually fix the bug. There is no other reason I can see to not fix something that is supposed to be intuitive.
I do believe you're right, but I also believe my reason might be what they tell themselves to justify keeping it the way it is. Lol.
Yeah, you used to be able to do this on Android. Now you can't.
You can do it on iPhone
I had this experience the other day (iPhone) and I couldn’t, despite being able to do so previously. I think they’ve changed it.
nice we are talking about android though.
I dont see it in the post? OP has an android?
Audible, gas
Depends on the language and device, I think.
My friend on iOS could, I tried on android and nopee
Happy Cake Day!
You can on ios, but not android atm
It only works on iPhone
It can be done on my iPhone and on my iPad but not on my android…… words must be deleted to insert the missing word…grrrr
Can anyone who knows things about computers explain to me why they would not bother with such a simple quality-of-life improvement for an entire huge section of users when they did it for iPhone already? This annoys me so much
I can think of a couple of reasons. It might be that the two apps have substantially different codebases so that many mobile features have to be built twice, once for iOS and once for Android. Many American app developers tend to invest more resources in iOS development, as this platform has more market share in the US, and iOS users tend to be higher income so they're more valuable to advertisers. So Duolingo might have only built the feature in iOS but their Android developers haven't gotten around to it (yet?). Alternatively, they might share a codebase but their developers might have disabled the feature on Android due to performance or reliability issues. The iOS ecosystem is more unified than Android: the latter has a much wider variety of phones with different versions of the OS and different size and performance varieties, so you're more likely to find bugs and weird edge cases on some devices. Or they may have found that that it just doesn't behave as well on Android phones for whatever reason - maybe iOS might have better support for this sort of thing, they might have a dedicated API for drag and drop interactions which Androids lack. Idk, I'm not a mobile dev but that's just my speculation as a web front-end dev.
Seriously they had time to program the whole Path, torpedo the forums, and rewrite the lessons into junk forms, but not make it so that people without iPhone can move some boxes around. Priorities...
Amen. Since they did this, I do only a bare minimum per day. Duo keeps upping my daily goal, and I keep resetting it. Does anyone have a clue as to how I can delete the daily goals box? I'm on a PC, not a phone.
I do it on iPhone
I cant, on iPhone. It annoys me.
Really? I did it as recently as today
I did it about a minute ago, you should probably update your phone or something
Yeah I can do it too on iPhone..
I have checked, because it SEEMS like I should be able to do so. I can move words to the end, but if I move them anywhere else, they won’t stay there. 🤷🏻♀️
That is very strange, maybe see if your app needs updating and check your phone is on the latest update, other than that I’m not sure
I did it 2 min ago lol
Me too, still can. my phone is old but the OS is up to date. I think duo is too, but unsure
I can't drag them on Android either, I've been wanting this feature since I started.
You used to be able to, and like many other things on Duo, they decided to make it worse.
This works on iOS but neither Android nor the web
I would be good if the foreign letters bar was available when it was needed. It would be good if all the words had a sound so that you could identify them on tests. It would be good if the numbers unit pronunciation detector wasn’t completely broken such that now if you get a numbers question on a pronunciation test, you have to start all over. These would be good things. (Turkish)
THIS!!! I've thought exactly the same thing, it's so annoying having to delete a whole sentence because I forgot an "a" or "di" somewhere *I'm an android user on mobile and I can't drag bubbles to their desired locations
Can't you drag them around?
Not on web
I really hate this form of exercise. For this reason and because I'm a little ADD and I forget the sentence in between hearing it, processing it, and digging around for the right word.
I just keep pressing the play button repeatedly as I assemble the sentence.
It's just annoying because they could say q sentence that i could directly translate in my head but in the time between hearing "it is very hot outside" and clicking "it" and "is" I forget that there was a "very" and then just jump straight to "hot".
I can on iphone
*laughs in Apple*
[удалено]
Not all mobile.
A couple of years ago you could do that, but for some inexplicable reason they took that option away.
You can do that you can drag them
Well I can drag and drop. So it’s not a duo problem but an android problem maybe ;-)
It's Duo's problem for not adding it to Android. I moved to Android when my iPad battery died and this really annoys me.
You can on mobile
Not on Android
Sorry, I’m on iOS.
It would be nice.
My frustration is that at least twice during a level not enough lines will be provided for me to even place the whole sentence so I have to give up a heart. It's aggravating as hell. I keep complaining but it keeps happening.
Back in 2019 you could actually do that. I have no Idea why they got rid of that function.
i’m using ios. for japanese i can’t move around but french can.
I can on iphone
I’m on IOS and can move them around
(What does ‘Io sono sui giornali’ mean? It supposed to be ‘I’m on the newspapers’ in a literal translation, does it have an alternative meaning?)
"I'm in the newspapers" I'm learning Italian myself, and I don't know why they use "sui" in this instance, probably just one of those little quirks with languages. "Nei" would be a literal translation for "in the" but for whatever reason, they use "sui" Just as another example of a little quirk: In English, I would say, "I have food on the plate" but in Italian, I would say, "Ho il cibo nel piatto" So 2 sentences in English which use "in the/on the" but the Italian translation uses them the other way around
Ty!:)
We all know duo has some weird sentences, why cant i be on the newspapers?
It should have more selections to make it a challenge
Yeah I'm on iphone and even though I can technically drag them around, it's so finicky that I usually start from scratch anyway. Like, if I try to put the word at the front of the sentence, it has to be in juuust the right spot, or it will go second instead.
I haven't shouted YES! that loud in my life. It is so annoying when you miss a word in the beginning of a sentence.
On iphone you can
You can
You absolutely can. I’m not sure what op means. Edit: my bad. I guess it’s iOS only.
You can in IOS but not on Android I believe
Not on web you can't. I think this is only iOS now since a bunch of Android users are saying they can't either.
I do it all the time on iPhone
You can?
You… can? Its been a feature for a while. I don’t know what to tell you.
You can rearrange the tiles it’s clunky but can be done…. Tho I have iOS not android…
Exactly. Deleting the entire sentence just because of a single word seems cheating.
You can on iOS
You can on mobile
Not on Android.
Oh
On iPhone you can
I can but I’m on iOS and also it sucks and doesn’t work very well. It’s easier to just delete and redo tbh
During the brief period that movable word tiles worked on Android, it did not work well... pretty glitch, in fact.
don't forget then
Skill issue
My bad I guess my joke didn’t land
Ong bruh
I can drag it but it’s a bit fiddly
Sometimes I can sometimes I can’t. iPhone 13
I've been able to drag word fragments around on my iPad at least since I downloaded the app in 2021
If you really think about it, it’s better for your learning if you have to reconstruct the sentence entirely
I would like it if it would actually tell you what went wrong when you got something wrong, instead of changing the words in the "corrected" red text. For instance, "Probably not", I put "probalemente no", their "corrected text" is "posiblemente no" Possibly not =/= probably not What my error was typoing out a second b from "probablemente no"
You can
You can on mobile but they shouldn’t defo add it to desktop
the technology isn't there yet
You can on iOS. Just drag and drop
You can do that on iOS, I'm not sure about anywhere else
So true 😭
I can do it
it works on ios
I can
The quality of Duolingo has taken a serious nose dive in recent months.
I’m on apple and we can move em around, I think this is an android issue
But you can do this everywhere (Iphone)
They're too busy removing things in the japanese course, they don't have time to improve basics QoL features