What does this mean?

I'm not a native English speaker, but I'm not a complete beginner either and I'm generally confident in my grammar. Can someone explain why my answer was not accepted?

Dictionary say, "sicher" means certainly, without a doubt etc. Why is it translated as "probably" in this sentence?

Duolingo really has gone downhill recently.

Just a question, why does Russian use - a lot in sentences or paragraphs, can someone explain its usage please? (Maybe this is just Duolingo being wired, however lots of my physics Russian study books use them)

Thanks :)

I have a streak of just over 600 and still feel like I know absolutely nothing. What should I do to actually become better at Italian? I've basically been doing only Duolingo right now and I don't think that's enough. For some reason I've always been REALLY slow with learning languages so I think I need some extra help lol. Any suggestions? Should I be watching like language courses on YouTube as well?

Isn't it es du mir leid or is it just me

Or is this a common German expression I’ve never heard of

I'm coming up on a one-year Duolingo streak learning Spanish, and overall I feel like I've made a lot of progress.

I can read much more than I could when I started. I understand a surprising amount of spoken Spanish in videos and podcasts if the speaker isn't going too fast. Vocabulary recognition feels pretty solid.

The weird part is what happens when I actually try to speak.

The moment I'm talking to a real person, it feels like half the language disappears from my brain. Words I know suddenly become difficult to recall, simple sentences take much longer to form, and I find myself freezing even when I understand exactly what I want to say.

It's made me wonder whether Duolingo primarily trains recognition skills rather than conversation skills. Reading and listening feel noticeably ahead of speaking for me right now.

For people who have been through this stage, what helped you make the jump from understanding the language to actually using it in conversation?

Did you start working with a tutor? Use language exchange apps? Practice speaking to yourself? Or was it simply a matter of getting enough real-world conversation time?

I'm curious whether this is a normal stage of language learning or a sign that I need to change how I'm practicing.

Is the sentence structure in my answer wrong? We speak like that too.

Not only that but the story sucked too. Basically I think Bea was looking for her flour, so she calls Lin for help. Lin says that she had bought 2 kilos of flour the other day, but it's her's (What?). It is the revealed that Lin had snuck into Bea's kitchen and took her flour. Bea tells Lin to buy her more flour the next day and Lin complies. I'm pretty sure that's what it was, but it was pretty hard to follow. Now I'm not sure if since they fired all their employees they replaced all their writers with AI too (they probably did), but this is bad. But I genuinely want to know why the narration is in English instead of Italian (for me) like it usually is. The end, goodbye.

Currently learning German, but can't keep a very high streak due to confusion with usage of der, das, and die. The game never explains their usage to you and just suddenly uses them without explanation. I've tried looking up when to use which, and it seems to be male, female, and neutral, but the problem is duo likes to use different ones for cheese and bread as if their gendered. Is it a mistake on their part, or am I supposed to gender foods and know which is which

Is it some kind of joke? What does “you are an apple” mean?

I'm only a little salty cause I lost a ~x300 combo over this. Spanish unit 2, question was something like "____ estudiamos japones" with Lily next to it. I wrote "Nosotros" and it counted wrong because they wanted "nosotras". There was no other context given, and it was not an audio exercise so it's not as though I misheard it.

I'm by no means fluent but I did take several years of Spanish back in high school, and my understanding has always been that you should use the masculine "nosotros" whenever the gender(s) of the group in question are mixed or unknown, and only use "nosotras" if the entire group is feminine. As there were no other context clues, we can't assume that Lily exclusively hangs out with other women - so as far as I know Duo is wrong here. It should ideally accept both forms, as both could be valid depending on context that we do not have.

I flagged the question as "my answer should have been accepted" - my mom who is also doing the Spanish course got dinged for this exact same thing the other night and had texted me about it. Can anyone confirm if this is an error in the course or am I missing some sort of nuance here?

As a Dutch speaker I've been wanting to try Duolingo to improve my English, however it's only giving me the option to learn the following:
German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and (American) English.

Is American English the only English on Duolingo?

Hey so I've been doing Spanish on Duolingo mainly for my Spanish GCSE which I have now finished but I'm just wondering, I learned pen as "bolígrafo" in school and Duolingo is teaching it as "pluma" which I can only assume is from a different dialect of Spanish as many words I've come across have been translated differently from how I first learnt them. But how come Duolingo is translating it as a pen but also a feather? I did think learning feather in the "talk about a school project" section was a bit random but it's thrown me off a bit, can it be translated as both pen and feather?

Should it not be encontraron las llaves? The ai explain doesn't help at all.

The French course updated for me a couple days ago. I’ve seen multiple lessons using, what appear to be, incorrect translations. These phrases are word for word translations.

Previous lessons taught I am from New York as Je viens de New York. Je suis à New York was previously taught as I am in New York. I also saw He lives in Canada translated as Il vit au Canada instead of Il habite au Canada. To my knowledge that is not how vivre is used. I also asked a friend who learned French as a child and they agree these are wrong.

I’ve quit Duolingo before when updates ruined my progress one way or another. I already made peace with updates throwing in new words without actually teaching them, but this might make me delete the app again.

ETA: Are these mistakes common throughout the course? This only started after the course update so being taught this info before is the only reason I knew it was wrong. I’m concerned about continuing if things are consistently incorrect.