Something that bothers me both about Duolingo and Rosetta Stone (and similar apps.) is that they don't let you fail enough. Immersion is just really really essential for learning well. There's a reason kids historically took so many years to learn language, and so poorly, even with adult focus and peer support.
Living learning versus a legacy call-and-response classroom or paper book - yuck. Teaming, both meetups and improv - versus what, constantly starting new conversations with people walking near you? And I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but for me, learning pronunciation without echo would be like, like learning dance steps without overlays, with just a metal mirror or someone's kibitzing. The chatbot making up funny stories and cartoons about things you see, and bantering variations with you. Contrast the oh so limited and scattered signage of legacy RL, versus the ubiquitous object tagging, with text and audio and interactives, of Apple's newest glasses. Riffing on nearby comments: (2022+n): I don't think living somewhere a language was spoken could ever have been a replacement for living _in_ the language.
With the length of the Spanish course, I am guessing you can progress even further. After finishing Duolingo, if you spend another year studying, practising, and consuming material in that language, you should be able to get to a reasonable working level in it. But Duolingo will give you the starting point so that you'll know where to go next if you really complete all the lessons. No online course can ever teach you to become fluent. Of course, I practised regularly outside of Duolingo especially with writing and looking stuff up on Wiktionary. That's all you can really expect from it because it's rather short (took me about 6 months to complete). It was a little rough going at times but basically it brings you to the basic conversation level. I had one half hour conversation where I talked only in Portuguese to an Uber driver and we talked about what he was doing, what he did in his spare time, etc.
At the end of the course, I was able to have basic conversations in Portuguese. I took a slightly less-developed course - the Portuguese course and completed it. The Spanish course is one of the best courses on Duolingo.
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