Love and Suggestions

I am such a huge fan of this app. The fact that its free is mind-boggling, and Ive been able to learn so much from it.

There are a couple ways Id like to see the app improved:

-Explanations. There are often many forms of the same root word used with no reason given for why the different forms are needed. Especially when learning a language like Russian, whose alphabet and grammar are unfamiliar to me, its hard to intuit a form change without having a clear explanation of when each is needed. (Ex. "My" is моя, мои, мой, моё)

-Bots. I love the bot conversations feature, it is incredibly useful. But I feel its too restrictive at times. When having a conversation in Spanish, a language I already know, I will often try to use more colorful, nuanced phrasing to respond, but the app does not even allow those words to be submitted. I understand that the responses are supposed to stay on-subject, but it would be nice to have some more flexibility with the type of response thats accepted.

-Capitalization. In the majority of "drag and drop" translation exercises, only one word in the word bank is capitalized, making it obvious that it is the first word in the sentence. I would much prefer to lose correct capitalization in these exercises for the sake of relying on memory, not hints, for translation.

Thank you for creating such a brilliant app and for making this important education available to everyone.

nva9 about Duolingo Learn Many Languages for Free, v5.0.14