Giving up the streak

If everything is a game, is anything fun?

Last weekend I told myself that I would give up my Duolingo streak.

For 1080 days, nearly three years (minus a lot of streak freezes) I’ve practiced French using the app. At first it was fun. When I started, I watched my French progress. I went from a beginner to relearning everything I once knew in middle school, the last time I took classes. Then the l…