Duolingo flash card glitch. I no like

Mostly because I lack anything better to do I do a bit of Duo Lingo every day to try to learn Spanish. Thus far I wouldn't say that I have actually learned very much, but it is more than zero. I think I have a decent vocabulary as far as nouns are concerned but sentence structure, especially because of all the conjugation of verbs, is something that I will normally do almost right or just downright totally wrong.

I've been told by Spanish speakers that if I conjugate the verb wrong the people I am talking to will still understand me though, so I guess that is a good thing. Like if you say "I go to the story, yesterday" they know that you mean "went." So that's cool even though I am going to sound like an idiot, I guess.

I know how to form basic sentences. I Know my way around clothing and more frequently used verbs but just not how to conjugate them properly. Tenses? Forget about it. If i ever get those right it is a total accident.

But I used to really enjoy the flash card section even though I don't really believe that benefits you a great deal as far as learning the language structure is concerned. Maybe I liked it because you didn't have to type anything, you just talked to your phone for a few minutes.

Lately though, something has happened and I don't like it. It used to be that if you got a word wrong, it would move the card back to the back of the deck and then you would get another chance at getting it right before it marked it wrong. It had already revealed the correct answer to you so mostly it was a question of remembering it long enough until it came back around again. There is now either a problem or a glitch in the system because now when the cards come back around a 2nd time, they have the Spanish answer already revealed and not the English clue.

I attempted to do what it says at the top there, to translate the word into English, but if you do that, you get it wrong. You have to say in this case "proximo" in order to get the question right. All of the ones that you got wrong on the first pass are always flipped over already revealing the Spanish answer, never the English word like it is supposed to be, and how it used to be.

This only recently started happening and it is very frustrating to me. I can't be the only person that has seen this yet it hasn't been fixed by the company yet.

Now I am learning a lot less as far as the cards are concerned because when you get something wrong, the system remembers that you got it wrong and then will present you with that word more often in the future until you start getting it right all the time. Now, since the answer is revealed already on the 2nd pass, you are never going to get any of these wrong and therefore the system doesn't seem to register that you struggle with those particular words. As far as it is concerned you always get those ones right and that's not how it should be.

I have attempted to submit a ticket to DuoLingo but I am not at all surprised that 10 days later nobody as so much as confirmed they got the email and will get back to me later. Nothin!

I guess this is just broken now!