Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
Duolingo is a toxic ex.
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
Why leave the app installed if you're done using it?
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
Anyone have a good Duolingo alternative?
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Duolingo is a toxic ex.
Sounds like they're threatening to steal your dog or something.
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Why leave the app installed if you're done using it?
Knowing how prone they are to this kind of crap, I wanted to wait and see what it'd say when my streak ran out, I wasn't disappointed
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
There’s a great video from WSJ with their exec team that talks about how those notifications are hugely beneficial both to their users, and to their revenue. Even if you pay for the full thing like I do you still get those notifications. They aren’t “desperate” they’re targeted specifically to get people to come back and keep learning. They also don’t care about showing you ads as much since their majority of money comes from paying users. If anything the ads are to just get you to pay for the app.
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Anyone have a good Duolingo alternative?
At this point I'm thinking I'll just take a trip to Tenerife to continue learning Spanish.
Other apps aren't good at gamification I hear - and that was the only thing that kept me using it till a while ago. I have ADHD. The leveling up, streaks, etc, is what kept me going when the novelty of learning yet another foreign language wore off - I already had to learn two in school and I only ever really use one of them, you can guess which one.
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Duolingo is a toxic ex.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]never used Duolingo, but i think i can relate now, i had a toxic girlfriend that would talk to me in Portuguese, i don't speak that language
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
One notification like this and your app immediately gets notification permission revoked on my phone (if not uninstalled).
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
Has anyone actually learned any language with duo lingo ?
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Anyone have a good Duolingo alternative?
Busuu is a lot like Duolingo but you also get to trade corrections with real people learning your native language
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Has anyone actually learned any language with duo lingo ?
I'd be surprised if anyone has. You need to actually use a language to learn it properly. But an app is a good start and supplement.
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Anyone have a good Duolingo alternative?
Quit your current life and move to a country where they speak the language you want to learn. Get a menial job in a small town, find new friends, and learn what love is. Then you’ll know what it truly means to speak a language.
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
Man I love to see that abusive Owl grovel. I also did this, good on you OP, may they see a consequence for threatening something good for the sake of greed. Eventually nothing is enough for the managers and they burn the whole thing down because of their personal addiction. This harms lives. We need to jail CEOs abusing power this way, that's the actual remedy.
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Has anyone actually learned any language with duo lingo ?
I learned probably 90% of my Spanish through Duolingo. My reading is good enough that I can usually follow along with Spanish news articles and Spanish spoken at a moderate pace. (So almost none of it, haha) I have hearing comprehension problems with English as well though, so that’s not Duolingo’s fault.
I’m definitely not fluent, but it’s not like I wouldn’t know what to do if someone handed me a form in Spanish, either.
Overall it’s just the repetition that matters. I don’t think I would know any less Spanish if I’d spent 20-30 minutes every day for the past 2+ years using a different app to learn.
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Quit your current life and move to a country where they speak the language you want to learn. Get a menial job in a small town, find new friends, and learn what love is. Then you’ll know what it truly means to speak a language.
Anyone know how to afford moving costs?
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I learned probably 90% of my Spanish through Duolingo. My reading is good enough that I can usually follow along with Spanish news articles and Spanish spoken at a moderate pace. (So almost none of it, haha) I have hearing comprehension problems with English as well though, so that’s not Duolingo’s fault.
I’m definitely not fluent, but it’s not like I wouldn’t know what to do if someone handed me a form in Spanish, either.
Overall it’s just the repetition that matters. I don’t think I would know any less Spanish if I’d spent 20-30 minutes every day for the past 2+ years using a different app to learn.
Thanks. That's quite a good result I think.
Did you practice outside the app (I mean at the beginning) ?
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Quit your current life and move to a country where they speak the language you want to learn. Get a menial job in a small town, find new friends, and learn what love is. Then you’ll know what it truly means to speak a language.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]This is the language equivalent of the
"I have a small issue with this software." - "Have you tried switching your OS to Linux and using a FOSS alternative?" conversation lol -
Knowing how prone they are to this kind of crap, I wanted to wait and see what it'd say when my streak ran out, I wasn't disappointed
If you use the duolingo widget you can watch duo drop down a depressive spiral until they eventually die alone in the desert. It's my favorite part of the app.
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One notification like this and your app immediately gets notification permission revoked on my phone (if not uninstalled).
I understand the logic of doing the streak system, keep you engaged by threatening to lose your streak if you don't do it every day, but it's a double edged sword.
If I'd lost my streak though... I should just go "oh well" and call it a day/quit.
I deleted the app when they said they were going to fire translators for AI. But I have adhd and forgot, several days, even with reminders, to do it some days... It never ended up mattering because they let me keep my streak anyway
