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
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
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
"Streaks" are shitty dark patterns IMO.
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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.
Sounds like a good plan, I'd seriously consider a Canarian accent if I could pick mine!
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Sounds like a good plan, I'd seriously consider a Canarian accent if I could pick mine!
It's closer to me than Latin America and gets less hot than mainland Spain. That's why it sounds so awesome to me
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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
never used Duolingo
i don’t speak that language
I believe I may have a solution
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"Streaks" are shitty dark patterns IMO.
I liked it because it was a learning app and I have a tendency to fall off. But paying real money to restore my streak? Hell nah
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"Streaks" are shitty dark patterns IMO.
I wish the whole streak paradigm was time weighted. Like I got over a 1 year streak on my Apple watch over Covid. That's basically never going to happen again. I wish there was some kind of "this is your longest streak in the past <time period>" or something. It all just feels so all or nothing.
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never used Duolingo
i don’t speak that language
I believe I may have a solution
i am trying not to go back to abusive relationships
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
Wife's streak is at 1,618 days across multiple categories. Almost 4.5 years. I imagine it's like smoking at this point.
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Wife's streak is at 1,618 days across multiple categories. Almost 4.5 years. I imagine it's like smoking at this point.
What is the actual point of a streak?
A sense of pride and accomplishment?
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What is the actual point of a streak?
A sense of pride and accomplishment?
At one point it was gamification to tie the reward center of your brain into continuing to train using the app. Now it seems that it's half that or half https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern to get you to pay to keep that reward system going.
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Wife's streak is at 1,618 days across multiple categories. Almost 4.5 years. I imagine it's like smoking at this point.
Having heard very mixed things about Duolingo's actual usefulness, does your wife speak or write well in any of the languages she's used the app to learn?
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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 lolLol it's almost even more extreme and has a common trope I love. "Hey I got this spam text..."
"Burn all your devices. Remove yourself from the grid. Scrub your identity. Purchase a single burner phone. Root it and install Graphene. Yes it's hard. Google it. Wait, don't google it. Search for it elsewhere. Amass money somehow without using technology. Cut off your family ties. You need to move to another country. You will need a work visa to move to most countries. But to get that you will need an accepted job in advance. And to have that you will probably need to access technology. Instead, buy a fake passport, because very few countries will just let you 'move somewhere' with a 'menial job.' Once you get there, develop passive income streams and quit your job. After you have been a landlord for two years you will finally know what it's like to claim that being a landlord is a real job because you need to talk to tenants and file paperwork natively for an hour or two a week."
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How badly they want to show me ads, it's impressive. Desperate ain't sexy guys
Come to think of it, an application threatening, shaming, and guilt tripping you into coming back might not be the healthiest thing ever.
