In other news: AI is a better human than Duolingo CEO
this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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And that just underlines my decision to quit Duolingo when it got contaminated with AI stop.
I can tell you from experience that AI was worse at teaching me a language than humans were.
is there an alternative to duolingo that lets me learn multiple languages for a decent price? Rosetta stone was great and all, but i ain't got 100 bucks to shell out for each language i want to half-assedly learn.
I just dumped Duolingo after this AI bullshit and am testing Mango Languages. So far I like it, but it is way different than Duolingo. Way less gamified and more focused on speaking. Plus, it gives cultural context to certain phrases that don't literally translate, which I find interesting and valuable. if you are in the US, your library might offer a free subscription with your library card.
You may want to check and see what your local library offers for language learning services, some provide Rosetta Stone to card holders free.
I heard a positive remark on Lemmy about https://www.languagetransfer.org/ recently and have been meaning to have a look
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Pimsleur. It's very different than Duolingo, in that it is almost entirely audio-based. However, at least in my experience, it actually gets you to the point of speaking and understanding a language much more rapidly than Duolingo. Way, way less gamified though. It expects you to put in half an hour a day where you just concentrate on the lesson.
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How can you be that dumb and a ceo at the same time..
Have you heard of Donald trump? He was the CEO of lots of failed businesses.
I'm so close to letting my streak die because of this dude. Fuck him.
My library (and check yours, too!) has free access to Mango Languages, and what I have tried there has been nice. But they don't guilt trip you into doing lessons so you have to keep on top of it yourself.
I ended my streak and uninstalled a while ago. It went downhill when they got rid of the discussion section for the exercises. Add to that stupid sentences I most likely wouldn't say in the real world .
I loved the conversation section 😭
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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.
Children will just jailbreak the AI. I managed to jailbreak far-right chatbots (until certain platforms started to block common phrases for this purpose), children will be able to do it too.
Also AI is so caca at most jobs the best it could do is help corporations to either produce more low-quality services (which at one point, won't be sustainable) and help in bluffing their way to lower wages and lesser worker protections. At this point, it's barely more than a toy and a spam machine, and most of its supposed cost cuttings rely on both speculations of its future and investment funds to make it look like it's a "free" technology.
Duolingo is literal trash.
Any alternatives for learning Japanese? I have already learned about 500 words and 20 kanji.
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ai can teach, and cheaper than humans, but I doubt its better than most of us
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Depends what you want kids to learn.
Propaganda, yes; everything else, no...
you know, I still say punching people who say stupid stuff, would cut down the stupid stuff people say, by at least half...