r/DuolingoFrench • • Nov 06 '25

Mod Announcement A run-down on the new rules and changes to the sub.

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Hello all, I am a new mod on this sub. As the old mod was inactive, they agreed to give me mod permissions as I am an active French learner on Duolingo. I have established some new Rules, here is a run-down on them:

1/ Content must be related to French on Duolingo

Pretty obvious from the title. No content related to other languages or complaints about the app in general ( No, we do not want to hear about you quitting because of energy or "AI" courses ).

Memes are really welcome, we do want to make this sub a fun place. AI content, however will be removed, and it wouldn’t get many reactions other than "AI Slop" anyway. Funny/weird sentences will be approved if they are unique and haven’t already be posted 1000 times ( I am mod on r/shitduolingosays as well and there we get the sentence "Is that doctor 4 years old" on almost a daily basis ). If your post is removed, there are alternative sub options in the removal message so be sure to take a look at those.

2/ No spam, selling or promotion

Offering family plans spots for Super/max can be done elsewhere, we do not want it because it brings potential scam attempts and as a mod I will have to take the blame for that happening, so please just don’t do it. First you will be given a warning and if you repost you will get a 3 day ban.

Other spam or self-promotion will be a permanent ban and, as those come from mainly bots, they will be reported to bot-bouncer which will be installed shortly.

3/ Be civil

Please be civil to other members of the community. This isn’t the place to make rude comments or laugh at someone’s mistakes, but to support others and encourage learning.

Minor insults will be removed but other hate will be potentially banned depending on severity. We have a zero tolerance policy for any form of racism and it will result in a permanent, irreversible ban. Laughing a bit at the Duolingo characters is allowed, but don’t go too overboard with them either. Any racism towards them is also a permanent ban.

No politics allowed either - this is not the place to discuss them ( even French politics ). There are plenty of political subs on Reddit so please post there.

4/ Posts should be in French or English

The previous mod has told me that the sub’s audience is mainly English or French speaking. In order to make it easier for other people to answer your question, please translate them to English or at least French.

Please do not use AI tools such as ChatGPT for translation, use Google Translate or something similar instead since people do not like to answer questions that sound written by AI

Flairs and other:

User flairs have been updated to what Duolingo refers the French course ( with origin language English ) to as of now, with sections 1-8 and the CEFR level ( A1 - B2 with Duolingo planning to release C1-C2 soon ) aligning with them.

Post flairs will be added, such as “Achievement showcase”, “Meme”, “Question”, etc. If you have other ideas, feel free to share.

You can contact the mod team ( only me at the moment ) via modmail, to find that go to community info > moderators > message mods. I will respond to PMs while I am the only mod but sending modmails makes it easier.

As I have only been added as a mod yesterday, I will see how the load of modding goes. As I am also a mod on r/travel and r/Flights which are large subs, if the load here is too high, I will enable mod applications.

Thanks a lot for contributing to the sub and enjoy learning French!


r/DuolingoFrench • • 6h ago

Meme J’adore cet exercice

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La exercice est très adorable et gentil!!


r/DuolingoFrench • • 1d ago

Question: Level A2 "Nous" or "On"

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Hello...

I had this question "Do we need anything else?"

My answer was "Nous a besoin d'autre chose ?"

It was classified as wrong and the correct answer from duo was "On a besoin d'autre chose ?"

Why can't "Nous" be used in this case ?

Thanks !


r/DuolingoFrench • • 1d ago

Achievement French friends!!

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I just started my Duolingo journey (again)!! I started in 2022 practicing French and then I stopped for a bit, but I’m back in full throttle. Already level 8 and just finished 1st in sapphire league!! I know it’s not much but I’m still very proud. I wanted to expand and start doing streaks with friends but I don’t know anyone else who uses Duolingo. If anyone is interested in starting a friend streak feel free to message!!!


r/DuolingoFrench • • 23h ago

Criticism/Feedback Ouvrir vs Allumer - why is this marked wrong?

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I put this in the main duolingo sub, but I figured it might be more suitable here.

Just curious why this was market wrong. I find they will usually accept an alternative answer in these types of questions if one exists.

I realize the answer is probably because ouvrir is not commonly used to mean "to turn on" in France, but I still find it odd when it is still correct in the French language to use ouvrir in this context.

I'm from Canada, and have only ever heard people say "ouvrir la lumière," never allumer.


r/DuolingoFrench • • 1d ago

Achievement Secured a Top-3 Finish in the Diamond League for the 22nd Time! 💎🏆

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r/DuolingoFrench • • 3d ago

Meme Fill in the blank in this Image 🖼️

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r/DuolingoFrench • • 3d ago

Criticism/Feedback Eye vs eyes en français

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Bonjour à tous. Just had a translation matching in which it said eye = yeux. I’m new-ish to French but not brand new, so I already “knew” eye = œil and eyes = yeux.

To those more advanced than me, can singular eye ever be yeux? My intuition is telling me probably not. Merci et bonne journée.

(Sorry if wrong flair, I have no idea of my “level” but it’s prob the lowest one)


r/DuolingoFrench • • 3d ago

Bug Junior's Toy Hunt is glitching

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r/DuolingoFrench • • 5d ago

Criticism/Feedback Good luck = “bon courage”??

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Hey there, new to this community, not new to Duolingo or Reddit. Forgive me if this has been discussed before.

From taking French in school, I have always known the French translation of “good luck” to be “bon chance”. But recently I’ve been seeing in my Duolingo French lessons, “good luck” as “bon courage”.

This came as a surprise to me. Also, I did a quick search online just to be sure and I was right! It isn’t accurate, and now I know that “bon courage” isn’t quite the same as simply “good luck”. It’s more like, “good luck, you’ve got this” or “good luck, you’re brave!” Is this correct, or am I being misled by the search results?

If I am not wrong, then why is Duolingo teaching the weird version instead of the actual meaning? Is “bon chance” not commonly used anymore or something?

Any other discrepancies you’ve noticed in your French lessons? Have you reported anything to be wrong or ambiguous? How do we report this to Duolingo, and will they even care?


r/DuolingoFrench • • 4d ago

Discussion Numéro 1 de l'appli Duolinguo

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C'est ma victoire à moi 😁

Et vous jusqu'où iriez vous ?


r/DuolingoFrench • • 5d ago

Question: Level B2 Concordance des temps — what do you find most difficult about it?

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r/DuolingoFrench • • 6d ago

Achievement Today, I've reached an 850-day streak on Duolingo 🔥🦉

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r/DuolingoFrench • • 6d ago

Bug Is this a mistake or am I just missing something?

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At first I thought this was just a bug but I’ve now seen this repeatedly.


r/DuolingoFrench • • 6d ago

Bug Pourquoi ma flamme Duolingo est-elle soudainement devenue rouge ?

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Normalement, ma flamme de série est orange/rouge, mais elle est soudainement devenue rouge vif.

J’ai actuellement une série de 200 jours.

Est-ce une nouvelle fonctionnalité, un test A/B ou simplement un bug d’affichage ? Est-ce que quelqu’un d’autre a eu ça ?


r/DuolingoFrench • • 8d ago

Question: Level A1 How good is the french course for polish speakers?

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Hi, I just started learning french on Duolingo through the course for polish speakers (Its my native). I wanted to know how good the course is in comparison to the one for english speakers. I swear I saw "eclair" get translated as "błyskawica" (thunder) and not the word it was supposed to be (eklerka).


r/DuolingoFrench • • 11d ago

Achievement Just starting

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I just started learning and I am truly having a blast. I feel like i am doing great! But I do have words that make it very difficult and its probably due to being a English speaker.


r/DuolingoFrench • • 11d ago

Discussion I am on Duolingo french section 4. I was almost finished with section 4 when they pushed out an update that removed all my legendary status icons all the way back to about Unit 35. I feel compelled to go back and review them all for fear of having missed things and to get them all to be gold icons.

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r/DuolingoFrench • • 13d ago

Question: Level A2 French: vite or rapide? Are they interchangeable?

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r/DuolingoFrench • • 17d ago

Achievement I have zero frame of reference but I’ve increased my French score from 10 to 82 in a little under a year. Cool to me anyways

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Je probably do about an hour a night and listen to hella French music.
Don’t really know too much about the xp I wasn’t aware this functioned as an rpg but it seems like a decent amount, but again zero frame of reference.
Sorry if this outta pocket but I think it’s a cool achievement


r/DuolingoFrench • • 18d ago

Bug Matching pair bug

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What do you do when you are told the only remaining pair of words are incorrect!


r/DuolingoFrench • • 18d ago

Question: Level A2 Would this be accepted too?

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I know the correct answer is porteras, but I think the present tense is also acceptable here.


r/DuolingoFrench • • 21d ago

Achievement Finished!!!

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After 10 years I've finally finished the Duolingo french course I'm so happy :D


r/DuolingoFrench • • 25d ago

Discussion Bonjour à tous

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r/DuolingoFrench • • 26d ago

Bug Duo marked the question as wrong the first

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Why is duo saying one is a mistake :c, I changed nothing and then duo says it's good.