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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] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

0, I quit

Before I killed it, I had 443, and easily could have kept going if I had desired

The layoffs and AI thing are only a partial reason for me leaving The whole volunteer shutdown when that happened, hiding 4 of their courses, and some other minor bad decisions made me stop Not to mention, Duolingo is very slow at times and doesn't teach any grammar unless you happen to be learning one of the 3 top languages

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

Makes sense. Are you aware of any open source alternative?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Librelingo is the only thing I've seen close to what Duolingo tries to be, but sadly it seems under-developed and doesn't offer anything other than very beginner Spanish so far

https://librelingo.app/