Oops. I just wrote a post about how Duolingo doesn't give you any help for new words that it is introducing. While using the app today, I noticed that there are underlines on each of the words in the question. Upon clicking the underline, I saw that it tells you what each word means, even in questions for translation.
This changes the app a lot, in my mind. What am I even learning if I have the definition of each of the words right there? I feel like I'm not really getting much by only learning the grammatical structure of the language. Honestly, before I understood how words are introduced in the app, that experience felt slightly more compelling than one where the tests and exercises were open book.
I guess I can somewhat accomplish the same thing by resisting the urge to look up what the word means if I forget.
Anyways, just wanted to correct my mistake in the previous post. It's not that Duolingo didn't provide resources to get the answer. Instead, it's offering way too much.
Funny how nowadays, I feel like this kind of forced memorization can actually be good for proper learning. Now I kind of get why classes had tests. Sometimes, that really is the right way to force the right kind of learning.