Duolingo made the mistake of giving me 2 months of premium for free. The regular accounts can only make 5 mistakes a day, a premium account can make unlimited mistakes!
The 5 mistakes a day limit is frustrating, even though we can do exercises to recover and make more mistakes on a day, it makes me unmotivated. With unlimited tries I am on beast mode.
The monthly challenge gives us a goal of making 1000xp points a month.
With a regular account I would finish the monthly challenge in 2 weeks or so, with a premium account I have finished it in just 3 days because I can just keep studying without fear or the frustration of wasting my hearts and having to replenish them.
I am on the diamond league and I am comfortably in the first place. I am trying to learn Russian, I am practicing what I know of Chinese, and I am using French to get bonus points because come on, compared to Chinese and Russian, studying French is a walk in the park.
I have finished in the top 3 ten times already, but this time I am going to finish #1 in the diamond (the highest) league!