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cross-posted from: https://ttrpg.network/post/28294416

(Pittsburgh, PA) In a Tuesday press conference, scientists at the Duolingo language-learning software company announced they are closing in on the perfect learning experience. Scientists say they have almost added every animation and effect that the marketing department predicted would help students learn, and hope to finish soon.

“In 2011, our program began teaching the world to speak to each other,” the announcement began, “and now our little owl has progressed to teach more people than all language schools combined.” They repeated the opening in several languages, including Klingon.

Duolingo is known for its characters and game learning style, and has greatly increased their animations in recent years. Researcher Gabriella Frezz says they saw a large initial bump in users when characters expanded, and again when they received basic animations. “That made it clear to us that the language skills are driven by animation, and we have been chasing that rabbit ever since.”

“Right now, we have characters dancing, lightning at several points interrupting the lessons, and a completion animation, but we know we can do more,” Frezz said. “Imagine if we added a cut scene for a spy chasing bank robber through a window at some point in the lesson, or maybe several cut scenes? Surely this would increase engagement and help people learn.”

Several new animations were demonstrated, including a five minute, unskippable animatic of the duo owl running around high-fiving other characters if a student gets three questions right in a row. “This one is really good,” said the speaker. “Since we added it, people are staying in lessons five minutes longer than before.”

Some skeptics doubt the constant distractions help students learn. One attendee noted that when searching google, “duolingo turn off animations” ranks highly for autocompletion. But Frezz says the research shows longer engagement helps important metrics, like stock price. “As an almost-vested employee, I’m excited to help keep people learning in the app as long as possible.

AdGuard DNS blocks connections to Duolingo's ads endpoints so you will not be shown any 3rd party ads. The asterisk is: it will still show you ads for Super Duolingo but those are shorter, way less annoying, and will never be double-played. I just turn off the speaker for 15 seconds and let the ads play while I do literally anything else.

You can also use this trick to get unlimited free energy. Note that in the current (Android) version, the in-lesson watch ads to gain energy buttons don't work, so you'll want to stock up on energy before starting a new lesson.

Here's how to set it up for both iOS and Android: https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html

There's no need to bother with option 1 which tells you to install an app. Option 2 is what you want.

WTH. Haha.

Duolingo makes the most ridiculous ads. 🤣

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/20499345

Original post from 2025-05-22.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/301613

Comments

I have a specific speech exercise in French that I fail. For a few months now, I don't know if this is my accent or duo's speech recognition, but I cannot get it right. Is there a way for me to remove it from my list? I can skip it with the "I cannot speak now" button, but then it will be back, and I don't have other speech exercises. Is there a way for me to remove it?

I know they make weird icons sometimes, but what does this one represent?

I just logged in today and found that all stories seem to be gone from my path and the practice hub as well. 🙁 I really hope that this is only something temporary!

Edit: I just checked after about ~10 hours and they seem to have returned!

Is Duo a brony? If they keep escalating their antics these will be NSFW soon.

I have finally figured out a way to poorly and incorrectly mispronounce "dólares" so that it would finally let me through the exercises that include numbers and money. There is no single word it has struggled to understand more than that one. And trust me, I am saying it correctly. Good grief!

What about you? What words does Duo refuse to accept from you?

Not bad isn’t it?

Anybody else has had that? I read they’re testing this so maybe not everyone is affected.

Next year I'm going for quadruple digits.

Duo's also on the app trend of year end reviews and wrap ups, so I thought I'd share mine. I kept up the habit, though I started doing the music lessons too as a break in language lessons all the time.

Also, just wtf is going on in the art department over there? Why is Duo's lil green butt featured so prominently?