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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)

rowark

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goomymegpoid

I wish this feeling upon everyone who wants to wear a dress, its really the best

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just me

mypsychology

Here to help y'all gorgeous children

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thank you, i think this is gonna help me a lot

forzamentis

Fantastic hands references by the website Hong14cafe.

Hong14cafe: Facebook | Forum

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Hand reference yessss!!

kurodiii

Hand refs for all your art and editing needs :)

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HANDS

thechekhov

hey watch this

I can make almost every single post-Soviet country person on this website feel specific heart-wrenching nostalgia at the same time with one very vague painting:

(source: Evgeny Lushpin - Dusk (Сумерки) 2000)

нечто из разряда "ебать, оно живое" @chi-eca привет из гроба :^)

Что ты можешь рассказать о себе?

кроме как "депрессивный шизофреник" ничего больше в голову не приходит

___ ебать, я не заметил вовремя. вау. спасибо х3

#VLD #Hunk x Pidge #почему по ним почти нет контента блять неужели так мало кому зашло

phantomrose96

And Alex Hirsch has definitely been trying to put in LGBT stuff. In the original storyboards for the Love God's introduction scene, he sets that old lady up with another old lady. It didn't make it through, but he's definitely been trying.

You’re right! Here are the storyboards. Pasted below are the relevant ones.

Alex Hirsch got in an adorable lesbian old lady couple up to the storyboards before it got censored.

One day, Alex. One day.

justablogthatihappentohave

I’d like to add a little more to this, if you don’t mind.

In the storyboards, we see the love god wearing this necklace:

The symbol on the necklace is a symbol often used in the trans* community; the symbol in the upper left is used to denote transgender/gender-variant people:

He’s seen wearing this necklace throughout the storyboards, including his first entrance:

However, in the end it did get censored:

As you can see, it got change to a necklace with two pendants, denoting only male and female:

Another example:

Yes, it did get censored, but I am amazed and delighted that people in the industry I want to work in are supportive and want to bring a positive, fun light to the LGBT+ community. It’s really awesome that Alex Hirsch and the team working on the show (i.e. Sabrina Cotugno, the board artist for this episode) had tried to make the LGBT+ community a part of Gravity Falls; thank you so much for that, Gravity Falls!