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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI.

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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Anecdotally, a friend who's pretty handy at languages uses more Memrise than Duolingo now. Similar sort of setup, but with a different style of delivery - more visual cues and a better repetition approach.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    in my experience, Memrise teaches you useful phrases much faster, while Duolingo drills you about horses eating blue apples and turtles wearing yellow hats.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    To be fair, as a Duolingo hater myself, I do see the logic in teaching wacky phrases. It at least gives me the impression that it makes it easier to improvise sentences based on the grammar you've learnt by drilling "the bear should eat some cheese when it rains" or whatever.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I just tried it out and I like it a lot better than duolingo.

    Duolingo is super gamified and you can’t keep practicing after you made a few mistakes. I just practiced for an hour with memrise and it was nice. There’s also video exercises in the app, and you can also practice chatting (with an AI probably?). I hope it holds up.

    I would love to compare babbel too, but Arabic is not available there.

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