viva_la_juche [they/them, any]

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Cake day: November 25th, 2020

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  • It’s really not as bad as people make it out to be. Idk if they market it like it’s the only thing you need to learn a language but I think a lot of the hate has historically been people misguidedly thinking it’s a one stop shop for language learning which is self evidently ridiculous.

    many different tools and inputs are needed to learn a language. Duolingo as a company does some dumb shit and they’ve made the user experience shittier but that’s just enshittification that happens to every app.

    It’s definitely poor at teaching grammar but it’s pretty good for banging vocabulary words into your head and practicing at least up to an intermediate or so level

    Back in the mid 2010s I used only Duolingo and a YouTube playlist and I was able to hold basic conversations in Spanish 3-6 months in

    Recently I spent the entire last year using it for Portuguese to speak to my mother in law and it’s the only tool I’ve used other than listening to music and I speak literally everyday to her in Portuguese