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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and all endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

[sexhaver]

i unironically believe electricity is the closest thing we have to magic in this universe. consider:

it's basically what human "souls" are made of (your consciousness is the result of miniscule amounts of electric charge jumping between neurons in your brain)

when handled incorrectly or encountered in the wild, it is a deadly force that can kill you in at least half a dozen different ways

when treated respectfully and channeled into the proper conduits, it is a power source that forms the backbone of modern society

if you engrave the right sigils into a rock and channel electricity into it, you can make the rock think

there is a dedicated caste of mages (electrical engineers) tasked with researching it in ivory towers

whatever the fuck Galvani was doing with those frog legs

look at this and just try to tell me it isn't a kind of summoning circle

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[wolfwoodbignaturals]

ps5 brain monday

[what-even-is-thiss]

Oh so THIS is the ps5 post. I can see why you all imprinted on it now that’s hilarious

[noisylovepatrol]

Jujutsu Kaisen

[everythingfox]

Broccoli boi

(via)

[turtlesandfrogs]

Queuing this for January too.

[liberalsarecool]

We need an adult conversation about transit.

[meangirlnurse]

gentiles have no idea which Jewish holidays are particularly significant relative to other Jewish holidays 

[meangirlnurse]

gentiles will be like “are you going to fly across the country to be with your family for Hanukkah? also do you really need time off for Yom Kippur” 

[lesbian-bookworm]

Not to make you my teacher but if you dont mind what are the most significant Jewish holidays/what they mean

Ive tried to google it but i usually only find christian bullshit

If you dont wanna thats all good to

[meangirlnurse]

hey! it’s admirable to want to know more. i’d recommend checking out JewFAQ’s Gentile’s Guide to the Holidays as sort of a short entry point. if you want more information on any of the specific holidays mentioned, you can check out the individual articles for those holidays under the “times” tab 😊

[stargazing-enby]

Hey this link was incredibly helpful! Thank you! 😊 *signal boosts*

[dovewithscales]

This is awesome. Thank you for the education.

[isaacsapphire]

If you have Jewish students or employees, this is stuff you need to know to do right by them and help your company/school not violate laws. Take the time to read the guide; its to the point and gets to the practical info fast.

[delphinidin4]

Tons more at the source!

[ordinarytalk]

[memewhore]

[employee210]

Another day in the Office

[what-even-is-thiss]

Surrealist humor sure is taking on a new flavor huh

[alexaloraetheris]

I have finally identified my only two braincells.

[quasi-normalcy]

Elon Musk’s only real act of genius was casting himself into a fictional archetype (the Tom Swift / John Galt / Tony Stark-style billionaire inventor) that so many people want to believe in so badly that they will overlook the mounting evidence that he’s actually just an unstable idiot with enough money to hire better engineers than himself.

[quasi-normalcy]

And in some ways, clever people *have* to believe in it. If it’s real, then they’re living in a meritocracy; the world is fundamentally just, Everyone Can Become Rich in America, and all social problems can be solved through visionary engineering and rugged individualism. If it’s a lie, on the other hand–if he only bought his way into his position using the proceeds of a stolen emerald mine worked by stolen labour–then how will *you* ever become a genius-billionaire-playboy philanthropist with *your* engineering degree? And worse, if the system is unjust enough to promote someone like that, and if electric cars and underground tunnels and colonising Mars aren’t going to solve the problems that capitalism creates–then don’t you have a moral obligation and practical obligation to change the system?

No, it doesn’t bear thinking about.

[reembodied]

this is the most concise and clear explanation of elon musk’s popularity among my fellow engineers that I’ve found, and I agree pretty resoundingly.

[marklikely]

i am so fucking sick of the chokehold this video has had on my brain for the last two days

[marklikely]

i could set this to post every five minutes for the rest of the week if i wanted to give you an idea of how ive been living

[cargifs]

[sdrgiobhjkfdlbjreiug-deactivate]

here in my gar͙̟̗̳̲͠a͓̻̬̝ą̭͉̤aA͏̳̞̦ͅA̦̰͚̼͎͎̼A̴a̮͚̝̯͖͙a͡a̟̞̳̯̳̯̰a͙͕̙͚g͕̤̘͔e͓̖ͅ just bought this uh..new lamborghini here

fun to drive up here in the hollywood hills

but you know what i like a lot more thanKNOWLEDGE! this uh..new lamborghini here but you know what i like more than my new lamborghini here

my tedex talk where i talk about this ᶰᵉʷ ᶫᵃᵐᵇᵒʳᵍʰᶦᶰᶦ ʰᵉʳᵉ the ǝɥʇ the ǝɥʇ t̪͖̻͉h͈̳̖̪̥̬h̤̙̮̮̮͍̠h̺͈h̭̜̺h̦͙̹͙͉̘̲hh͇̺̖̣̪̦͙h͓̩͔͈͎̭͡h͈̜h̹̮̰̩̘͓̺͜ḩ̼̞͇̼h̻̬̦̺̫͇ḫ͙̣̟̪ in fact i’m a lot more proud of the 7 new hollywood hills that i had to get installed to hold 200 new lamborghinis (silence while mouth moves) THE it’s like the buffet warren billionare says: the more you earn the more you ＤＲＩＶＥ  ＵＰ  ＨＥＲＥ  ＩＮ  ＴＨＥ  ＨＯＬＬＹＷＯＯＤ  ＨＩＬＬＳ

in fact. the real reason why i keep this lamborghini here..is the real reason i keep thisLAMBORGHNI here is that it’s a reminder, a reminder that drears still possible because it wasn’t that long ago that i was in a little lamborghini, sleepin, on bookshelves in the hollywood hills with only FOURTY Seven billion dollars in my bank account and only FOURTY Seven lamborghinis in my lamborghini account and only FOURTY Seven hills in my hollywood account and only FOURTY Seven tedex talk where i talk about warren buffet in my TEDEXTALK WHERE I TALK ABOUT warren buffet account. but you know what? something happened that changed my life. i bumped into a LAMBORGHINI and another LAMBORGHINI and a few more LAMBORGHINIS. i found 5 lamborghinis. i don’t call it money anymore i call it FUEL UNITS. you must have enough fuel units! you must have enough lamborghinis. you must Ć͓̣̟̥Ọ̠̬͕̠̺ͅN̝͢S͓̟̤͇͔͚̙T̬͉̝̙̘̟R̫̻U̬̱C҉̲̥̬̪̜T̖͇̗͟ͅ ̖͙̥͎A̺͓̮̥̼̜̘͢DD̸̜̦͙͉I̙̺͈̰T͎̫̺͙͖͖͉̕Ì̖O͎̞N͙͕̺͜A͉L̢̤͙ ̖̫Ṕ͚̼̭̫Y̛̭̳̭̖̲̗Ḷ̳͞O̴͍̳̖̟̭̖N̸̼͕̞͔̗̟̯S̼̪͍̲̪̥͘. i’ll see you on my website, it’s a quick video and uh..you’ll see there absolutely nOTHING

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@plinii

[tikkety-tok]

[pawprint3]

This is better than any snl sketch

[commander-wysner-deactivated202]

IS THAT LINDSEY STIRLING

[commander-wysner-deactivated202]

Okay the whole fact that it is in fact Lindsey, makes this even funnier

[bubobubosibericus]

that record scratch at the end though

[evermore-fashion]

Favourite Designs: Poem Bangkok ‘Magic Duality’ Fall 2022 Ready-to-Wear Collection

[chickenfarmersan]

[yougottabeniceforwhat]

[desiccantdonoteat]

[needlepointcursewords]

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