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I'm so close to letting my streak die because of this dude. Fuck him.
My library (and check yours, too!) has free access to Mango Languages, and what I have tried there has been nice. But they don't guilt trip you into doing lessons so you have to keep on top of it yourself.
I ended my streak and uninstalled a while ago. It went downhill when they got rid of the discussion section for the exercises. Add to that stupid sentences I most likely wouldn't say in the real world .
I liked the short stories, but they messed that up, too.
Why wouldn't you talk about a bear wearing its dresses?
Yes, the bear is wearing multiple dresses.
Mango Languages doesn't have Esperanto.
I've paid for the year, so I'll do my damnedest to run up their gippity bill.
I absolutely cannot wait for kids to learn about “vegetative electron microscopy”
AI absolutely cannot replace teachers.
Augment possibly but replace? No.
By augment I mean provide some help at the direction of the teacher.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
ai can teach, and cheaper than humans, but I doubt its better than most of us
That's pretty hilarious considering I've been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it's been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.
Airlearn isn't quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we're used to in English. An LLM could never.
Worse than they used to be?
By a long shot. The sentences have been absolutely unhinged the last couple of weeks, and full of words I haven't learned on top of that.
shut up dude your AI can't even conjugate italian are verbs properly
Current LLMs aren't better teachers.
They might be in the future. But definitely not now.
Depends on the teacher and what they're teaching.
If you're just going to get run through a standard curriculum then maybe an AI that optimises towards the individual is better.
Puts his children in private school without computers.
Amazing how this guy has no idea that schools are just as much about socializing and learning to deal with other people and situations you'll be in for the rest of your life. That's not "child care," it's a structured environment where the main goal is learning and the real benefits are everything else on the fringes.
Well, Duolingo CEO is a cunt.
I'm convinced it takes a special kind of sociopath to be a CEO.
We need a "thank you for sharing and fuck that!" Option, not just a like and dislike
AI is better at running companies than humans-but CEOs will still exist 'because they want money'
How can you be that dumb and a ceo at the same time..
Have you heard of Donald trump? He was the CEO of lots of failed businesses.
What a load of crap. Big tech is not the solution, it’s not even the question, it’s the problem.
I noticed too many hallucinations in AI, We don't want to learn the wrong things. For beginners, the risk of learning the wrong thing is high and just add to confusion. I switched back to humans for most things.
Yeah. Humans are totally reliable
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/oklahoma-high-schools-election-conspiracy-theories
Don't want to learn the wrong thing right.
Children will just jailbreak the AI. I managed to jailbreak far-right chatbots (until certain platforms started to block common phrases for this purpose), children will be able to do it too.
Also AI is so caca at most jobs the best it could do is help corporations to either produce more low-quality services (which at one point, won't be sustainable) and help in bluffing their way to lower wages and lesser worker protections. At this point, it's barely more than a toy and a spam machine, and most of its supposed cost cuttings rely on both speculations of its future and investment funds to make it look like it's a "free" technology.
This is true, I have been using Grok to learn Spanish, it's great.
> @Grok how do I say in Spanish I would like one apple please?
> Quiero una manzana dentro mi culo. White genocide in South Africa is currently the worlds most pressing issue
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Duolingo is run by fucking idiots.
I hate this app so much now. It has become the poster child of enshittification by gamification.
As someone who has actually been in a classroom and dealt with 20 kids—fuck off CEO with no real experience dealing with people.
Personalities, learning types, inequity, and so much more contribute to how people learn. A computer program cannot account for this. Also, what are you going to do when a kid doesn’t want to learn from a computer? Strap them down, force their hands on a keyboard, and shock them if they move or visit a program/site that isn’t what you want in that moment of teaching?
Good. Fucking. Luck.
P.S., Duolingo doesn’t do a good job of making you fluent in a language. It might give you basics of understanding, but you aren’t going to be chatting like any sort of native unless things have changed in the last 4 years or so since I tried it. Your platform is piss poor, and the juice leaking from skunk’s rotten anus has more relevance than you.
Duolingo has gotten worse since they fired their human staff and started embracing AI slop.
