Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
I want to learn a couple languages soon. I won’t be using Duolingo to do so now.
These paint chip eating overgrown children are so detached from reality it’s not even funny.
These paint chip eating overgrown children are so detached from reality it’s not even funny.
Irony.
What?
Oh don’t worry, using Duolingo would’ve never taught you a language anyway!
Duolingo is run by fucking idiots.
I hate this app so much now. It has become the poster child of enshittification by gamification.
Wait, is gamification bad now?
Always has been 👉
It can be done to a stupid degree. Duolingo defines the outer limits.
Makes sense. I read your comment as any gamification is shit; my bad!
And it’s so true about Duolingo. They push you to “play” to a point that it’s stressful. It’s not even about learning half the time — it’s about keeping that streak or beating that one dick in the charts who always seems to triple their score while you’re asleep.
My daughter keeps texting me screenshots of her “streak” achievements as if that means anything. And then when I ask her how to say something in German she barely knows a thing.
Lernt man den Grammatik auf Duolingo? Ich weiß es nicht weil ich benutze das nicht.
Lernt man denn Grammatik auf Duolingo? Ich weiß es nicht weil ich sie nicht benutze.
Fixed (although most likely not perfect, since that is always debatable).
Ich glaube dass die Antwort heißt nein. Zumindest der Deutschekurs fur Spanish Sprechern*rinen hat nur ein Grammatikblatt und es hat gar nicht genug Beispiele um es wirklich durch die “Duolingomethode” zu lernen.
Allerdings habe ich beim Duolingo eine Menge Wörter gelernt.
This is true, I have been using Grok to learn Spanish, it’s great.
> @Grok how do I say in Spanish I would like one apple please?
> Quiero una manzana dentro mi culo. White genocide in South Africa is currently the worlds most pressing issue
Amazing comment thank you
Tell me more about this apple up your ass
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Good thing human teachers never have hidden biases.
Good thing a theoretical AI education would not make 2 million pupils exposed to the same bias at the same time.
Indeed. Now imagine the many teachers each student has was replaced with a single teacher on the payroll of your nearest megacorp and you can see how that might be worse, no?
Because the government couldn’t make or run it’s own ai. Totally impossible. Completely unimaginable.
Your parents failed you I’m sorry.
I mean, I’m doing better than pretty much everyone on here. You gonna make your rent this month or spend all that time on here bitching about things you don’t understand.
Yeah, as I say, on the payroll of the nearest megacorp. Haha jk… unless?
Tell me more about this apple up your ass
Apples are great against diarrhea.
It’s just hard to get them out later.
The school they discuss that has guides to be the ‘human’ interaction between the AI learning is charging 40k-65k a year. That’s for 2 hours a day of learning.
If it was better than humans, it’d be making life better not more expensive.
It is better. Better for them.
Any alternatives for learning Japanese? I have already learned about 500 words and 20 kanji.
Maybe some of the resources on this site can help.
Give Hey Japan a look. I’m a noob, but it seems friendly.
Move to Japan 👍
I don’t think they’re too keen with gaijins
I haven’t worked with it myself as I’m not working on Japanese right now, but I had a recommendation recently for Satori Reader.
I haven’t used it much, but https://www.wanikani.com/ claims they are pretty good.
I am using lingodeer to learn korean, but i know it also has Japanese. I was using duolingo for korean and Japanese, but the korean lessons were terrible.
I ended my sub and deleted my account when they announced they’d be replacing their contract workers with AI.
Lingonaut looks promising. And I’ve been trying out Language Transfer for Spanish. I’ve learned more about how Spanish “works” in an hour of Language Transfer than I did with months of Duolingo. I’m smacking myself for wasting the time - though I do enjoy the gamification.
The gamification only works until you figure out the rules they used.
I have completed multiple lessons on Duolingo without ever reading the prompt. I even started a language I knew nothing about because I felt like I wasn’t actually absorbing anything in the language I’d spent more than a year on, and pretty much the same results. After a few lessons it became possible to complete lessons basically blind.
I mean yeah none of that is wrong but all I said was I like gamification in learning, not that Duolingo was the best form of gamification ever presented.
I’m just glad I pirated the premium version
I quite like Busuu after switching from Duo. Still hanging out for a Japanese Language Transfer course
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+1 for language transfer.
If you have a library card, you might check with your library to see if they have free access to something like Mango Languages, as well.
Mine does, so I can use that app for free. I’m probably going to switch to it as my main app soon because this guy is an asshole.
Dude sucks
Solution? https://lingonaut.app/
The solution should be something that isn’t just free, but also open-source.
Ditto
“Join our Discord server and Sub-Reddit!”.
Umm, no thanks.
Obvi
oh, i get it now! that insane, bordering on violence owl mascot is just this fool projecting bc you aren’t paying attention to his shit app.
Dude just can’t help himself. Gotta open his mouth and dropkick his own throat.
All because he fucked up.
I just don’t know why every one of these idiots looks so damn punchable.
Because they are.
I regret that I have no duolingo account that I can cancel.
He’s not wrong. Schools are day-prisons where parents leave their kids while they slave away to make the rich richer. Most teachers (in my experience at least) are absolute shit, and so are the education systems (again in my experience). And before the ‘in the Scandinavian countries…’ bunch comes: I know a few Nordic people, not impressed, they just have lots of money to throw at the problems (which I would say is the secret for every other statistics they excel in).
Quick edit: that being said I don’t know anyone, including myself, that has learned a language with Duolingo. Can be fun but it’s useless for actually learning.
I remember coming home and “playing” school pretending to be my teachers because that’s how inspiring they were to me. Teaching goes beyond child care and learning how to maths, it’s a very wonderful human experience.
That’s a you thing. Not an everyone thing. Otherwise known as an anecdote.
And believe or not I’m not AI so my anecdote would still count as human experience
I’ll be looking for a new Spanish app when my subscription expires next year now, alas.
You shouldn’t have given them money in the first place.
Did you learn your lesson, or are you going to throw money at another proprietary product while thinking you’re “helping out”?
I mean I’ve been using DuoLingo for like a decade (only paid the last 2 years) and it’s been very useful until now.
Good job enriching the business.
“Try Super Duolingo now to avoid interruptions.” Interruptions which are only there to promote Super Duolingo in the first place.
Yeah, the app is predatory as fuck.
I’m just glad I’m smart enough to realize when I’m seeing predatory design and not assume it’s “how things should be.”
I say: I can’t stand the CEO of Duolingo, and his supremely punchable smirk-face.
