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Alternatives to Duolingo for everything: https://ruhua-langblr.tumblr.com/post/739086003139149824/duolingo-sucks-now-what-a-guide
Stages of #Duolingo:
-This is so cool and helpful!
-I’m learning so quickly!
-I can share my progress with friends! 🥰
-I’m so obsessed with my streak haha!
-I want to punt this stupid owl into the centre of the sun
Idea for a rage room except instead of plates and broken electronics to smash it’s filled with hundreds of piñatas of the #Duolingo owl.
Is there an open source alternative to #Duolingo with support for #Esperanto?
My Esperanto has gotten quite rusty.
在Duolingo上学了四百多天西班牙语，有点瓶颈了，决定换日语试试。第一天学到“六”的读音是ro ku，想到流媒体公司Roku，查了一下果然有关系。因为是创始人（美国白人）的第六家公司，所以叫Roku。
He retomado desde hoy el Esperanto en Duolingo, que por falta de tiempo lo había dejado parado una larguísima temporada.
Y un poco más adelante empezaré con el japonés.
Saluton! Mi estas Ratona!
Not sure if this was the final round of letslearnhangul.com but it finally taught me all the korean letters.
Maybe because we started with them but the consonants seem easier to remember than the vowels so far.
There is a system to #Korean that makes learning it easier and somewhat fun! )
This one hour course took me a few weeks or a month of learning.
At the beginning i did as much as 5 lessons per day but near the end i did only 1 per day.
Big thanks to @technicat for suggesting Korean:
고 마 워 요 !
Instead of 12-14 different languages a week i've been focussed in on Korean even on daily #Duolingo
Looking to replace Duolingo?
Your library might provide you free access to Language Learning Apps.
No, not CDs or cassette tapes (when was the last time you were at the library? ).
Actual apps. That you download onto your phone.
My library provides me access to TWO language learning apps that compete directly with Duolingo. Mango Language App and Transparent Language App.
What apps does your library provide?
FFS: What an absolute bellend: "Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will still exist ‘because you still need childcare’"
Were I still using that POS Duolingo, this would have made me stop.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/duolingo-ai-teacher-schools-childcare/
Ha salido el CEO de #Duolingo a decir que lo de AI-first era bromis, que ellos valoran mucho a sus empleados humanos y que por favor que la gente deje de cancelar sus suscripciones.
Luego hay gente en RRSS diciendo que como las acciones de la empresa están en máximos toda la gente que se queja de su nueva estrategia está, en consecuencia, equivocada.
Como si no hubiésemos pasado ya por varias burbujas tecnológicas en las que el fad de turno inflaba el stock hasta que llegaba el inevitable momento Minsky.
Pero no, esta gente no aprende nunca. Magic numbers go brrrrrr.
We are hiring at Duolingo in New York!
For the Client Builds and Infrastructure team. iOS for this.
I am currently on the team hiring, so I can tell you pretty much whatever you need to know.
https://careers.duolingo.com/jobs/8054750002
#duolingo #NowHiring #JobPosting #Jobs #GetFediHired #Hiring
Duolingo is getting weirder and weirder since they went all in on #ai
I stopped doing most of the lessons and just did a word a day as a keepie-up. But, er.
Araña means chandelier? Tea translated to merianda instead of té, this actually makes sense to me as a northern brit, but who else is going to think tea means snack time?
Weird words with weird uses and not in a fun way, in an ai slop kinda way.