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Ah yes, big yellow schoolbuses, that quintessential part of Japanese school life (hexbear.net)
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Feeling real immersed, Duolingo

Would it kill them to better represent other cultures and countries or do they just have the one set of Corporate Memphis art assets and they're too stingy to create more

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[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They're pretty anime-y with the Japanese track, especially on the younger characters. I've heard people say it really fucks them up with languages like Chinese

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's really bad for Chinese in general (hey here's a character with no context with an ambiguous computer-generated voice! No, we won't tell you the pinyin so you can figure out wtf we're saying) but the cartoon voices killed it completely.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

At least with Japanese you can toggle between romaji, furigana and off, though I guess I wouldn't be surprised if their Chinese "course" was even less developed