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What is your record Duolingo streak? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I know they sometimes get a bad rap (especially recently with the lay offs https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/10/duolingo-ai-layoffs/), but it's still a nice app to use to get started with a language

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

2200+ fire streak since I joined 10 years ago (multiple languages). Lost the streak a few times before. I'm not fluent but maintaining it helps me to improve a bit every day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Impressive, which languages are you learning?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. A few of them but main focus is Spanish. What about you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm learning Spanish too! We should create a community to practice ha ha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good idea. That's what I'm missing about Duolingo tbh. Let's start it. Maybe we should make a discord or alternative?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was more thinking about a Lemmy community, I asked about a Spanish instance a few days ago on [email protected], seems like there isn't any at the moment.

I have been thinking about it for a while, I'll keep you posted about the potential options

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with this community if you want to keep it on Lemmy? I think it would fragment the community unnecessarily

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We are not talking about the same thing, I was thinking more about a Spanish-specific community, where we could practice in that language :)

To my knowledge, there is none active so far, (https://lemmy.ml/c/espanol and https://lemmy.ml/c/spain being quite dead), there is one recent message on [email protected], but I'm not a fan of having all communities on LW

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I understand now, but I think this method wouldn't be an efficient one, except for sharing articles about learning that language but I think this c already is good enough for it. What I'm missing is a chat for group of people studying the same language, and where we can also converse orally. That's what DL is missing, and alternative I tried was full of unmotivated people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, it we were to speak the language, I guess that would work.

That's more or less how I learned English, by commenting on forums in English. The oral part indeed would need something else, isn't there any Discord existing already to practice?