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  • Following backlash to statements that Duolingo will be AI-first, threatening jobs in the process, CEO Luis von Ahn has tried to walk back his statement.
  • Unfortunately, the CEO doesn’t walk back any of the key points he originally outlined, choosing instead to try, and fail to placate the maddening crowd.
  • Unfortunately the PR team may soon be replaced by AI as this latest statement has done anything but instil confidence in the firm’s users.
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[-] [email protected] 174 points 1 week ago

I mean, it is too late. Canceled my sub, won't be coming back.

[-] [email protected] 105 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same. Deleted the app this weekend and let my 918 day streak evaporate.

I’m actually kind of surprised at how little it affected me, to be honest. I had a little bit pre-regret about losing the streak before deleting the app, but now a couple days later that feeling certainly doesn’t exist. AND there’s that benefit of no stupid owl guilt tripping you every day.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

Check out "Language Drops" and "Rosetta Stone" if you're looking for replacements. They both have very different approaches to language learning (both from each other and from Duolingo), but their content is at the very least much better curated than Duolingo's.

I haven't gone out of my way to check but AFAIK neither of them is jumping on the AI-before-anything-else train.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

My recommendation is Language Transfer, a freely-available system for multiple languages that, in my opinion, helps you to think in another language better than any other system I have tried.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It has only 10 languages :(

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