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Duolingo has notes explaining the grammar as it introduces it, for the most part, and the grammar gets reasonably sophisticated by the end. Not really what I'd call complex nuances, but probably equivalent to a year or two of university study. What second-week German grammar concepts do you think it doesn't brush on?

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Must have been an update, wasn't familiar with it.

The last duolingo I used was just trying to get humans to solve its foreign-language reCaptcha material.

The desktop/webapp version has notes, and they're even pretty good. The mobile app doesn't, and IMO is mostly useful for rehearsing.

In my experience Duolingo does have good grammar notes. But they are easily ignored and the exercises don't force you enough to read and understand them. Which may be impossible for any such tool.

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