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CEO disdain for humanity, as exhibited by this individual, makes me wonder if people named Luigi might feel that they are needed by CEOs.
"Try Super Duolingo now to avoid interruptions." Interruptions which are only there to promote Super Duolingo in the first place.
Certainly nobody needs Duolingo to learn anything
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
+1 for language transfer.
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What a take.
Schools will continue to exists because education centers makes plain dense for almost any halfdecent society.
Wether the teachers are a personal ai or a single human does not change that. Schools provide way more then just “a teacher”
Wether the teachers are a personal ai or a single human does not change that. Schools provide way more then just “a teacher”
That's like exactly what he says, you just restated his take...
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.
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 say: I can't stand the CEO of Duolingo, and his supremely punchable smirk-face.
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.
Oh don't worry, using Duolingo would've never taught you a language anyway!
I regret that I have no duolingo account that I can cancel.
Dude sucks
Solution? https://lingonaut.app/
“Join our Discord server and Sub-Reddit!”.
Umm, no thanks.
Obvi
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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.
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.
Any alternatives for learning Japanese? I have already learned about 500 words and 20 kanji.
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 haven't worked with it myself as I'm not working on Japanese right now, but I had a recommendation recently for Satori Reader.
Move to Japan 👍
I don't think they're too keen with gaijins
I'll be looking for a new Spanish app when my subscription expires next year now, alas.
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