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Yeah good luck with this on Duolingo lol. I'm years down the line and also having studied full-time over there, still far from "fluency".
Duolingo is a game for points and badges. it's not actually useful for learning anything.
I believe it is called a classical education
Firefly timeline!
FIREFLY TIMELINE!!
FIREFLY TIMELINE!!!!!!
I guess it's better than some alternatives, at least because we never found out what the Space Confederates were fighting for
Real anti capitalists learn Esperanto
May I ask why?
Because it's a W language meant to foster international communication and understanding.
Sorry for my ignorance, what's a W language??
W, like winner. It's internet slang. It's a winning language.
You sent me down this rabbit hole, you meanie.
Lol, I had never heard of that before. That's awesome!
I was like "oh a programming language you can speak now I want to learn it." 😭
Esperanton estas bona lingvo. Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?
I don't get the connection between losing access to tik tok and starting a +20 years journey to learn chinese
I believe that a clickbait title about 400 idiot people starting the first lesson in Duolingo and then quickly quitting without deleting their accounts is the through line here.
"only idiots show interest in a second language" is a take for sure
Well, considering that I speak 4 languages myself, maybe that's not the take I was going for.
That's very clearly not what they meant and you know it.
A small but vocal chunk of people moved to another Chinese social media app with the announcement of the TikTok shutdown. This app is mostly used by Chinese users unlike TikTok. The idiots are the ones trading one foreign monitoring app for another - one which doesn't even primarily use the language they speak
Okay buddy 👍
Can you just use duolingo as a translator?
This Tiktok ban is going to make people in the US do what they never did before and learn a second language. 万岁
More like start learning a second language and give up after a week.
This may be a stereotype, but TikTok specifically caters to people with short attention spans.
Gateway learning.
I learned Spanish to write love letters in 2nd grade.
And now 30 years later, I know like a dozen languages at a basic level, but still good enough to be sent all over the world on business trips for free.
I wonder how many 7 year olds are picking up Mandarin to protest this tiktok thing.
Yeah learning to speak Mandarin is one thing but learning to read it feels fucking impossible if you don't start young.
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