I can literally hear my students whining “When am I gonna use this?” right now.

Also, Duolingo, I think it’s fair to suggest that an American English speaker will never say “Ghassan a is very hungry,” and while I admit that that would be a genuine PEBKAC* error, it would be super cool if you could just fix it and move on.

*we may need a more phone-appropriate version of this acronym.