

I honestly have no idea why "in" is sometimes used for a location and sometimes not. I think I would do better if rules were explicit rather than just being expected to pick them up. I also am not super keen on the "immersion" method Duolingo uses. I can apparently pay for more hearts, but I'm disgruntled enough with Duolingo that I don't trust the paid version to be good.

I make lots and lots of mistakes on Duolingo, and today, it wouldn't let me continue because I ran out of "hearts," which from Googling, seems to indicate I make lots of mistakes, which I know. I tried to study it on my own once, but not knowing how to pronounce anything made me crazy. I don't need to go through that a thousand times. I know how to say bread, water, girl, and woman. I've started at the beginning on Duolingo, which would be OK, except it keeps bumping me back to previous levels, even though I almost never make mistakes (and the mistakes I make are typos). German: I took a lot of German in college and even lived in Germany for a year, but I've forgotten a lot. I'm pretty fed up with Duolingo, and I'll be specific about why it's making me crazy, in the hope that will result in better answers.
