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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 the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"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)

[thetursithan]

And to think that it takes very little to make a child happy....

[petula-xx]

Off topic but this is too good not to share with the world!

[johanirae]

That poor excavator operator: DON'T FUCK THIS UP DON'T FUCK THIS UP

[drtanner]

The world is good, people are kind, and excavator operators are some of the most skilled people on Earth, I think.

[queen-mihai]

Amazing x1000

[thisbibliomaniac]

If anyone was wondering, Duolingo just got even worse.

[betterthanideserve]

Yep, it's unusable now. Absolute garbage compared to 3-5 years ago. It's a shame because I actually learned a lot from old Duolingo, and the new version has some great features underneath the mess, but it's obvious their mission has shifted from education to profit.

[onlytiktoks]

[dancinbutterfly]

I do love the genre of "we are gonna fuck up cybertrucks...oh no, these are actually hugely dangerous, wtf?"

[jenjenthevirgo]

Love his reaction!

“Y’all just glued your truck together!?”

[teenytinychihuahua]

The full video is fascinating cause it really shows off what bizarre priorities the cybertruck has. It is actually bomb proof, the steel is very durable, also the accelerator will fall off if you hit it hard enough and dude found loose washers and duct tape in his car.

[hunter-rodrigez]

What I find extra funny is how at the start of the video, it looks like some musk fanboy is about to show off some absolutely useless "feature" of the cybertruck, such as the ability to withstand pickaxes.

But then it immediately flips to "What the fuck, this thing is glued together???"

[theoppositeofadults]

i’m “the petrol of sun of flowers” 

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[symphorine]

also worth noting that “basil”, in french, is “basilic”. but basil can also be a person’s name. the french ingredients list says we put a dude named basil in there.

[storybookprincess]

one of the best ways i’ve found to combat that inherent depressive pessimism without veering into toxic positivity territory is simply the phrase “i’m open to the possibility”

this particularly works with anything negative i’ve forecasted. “i woke up feeling like shit today, so my day is gonna suck” isn’t a particularly helpful thought, but “it’s a great day to be alive!!!!!” feels hollow and insincere when i have a pounding headache & am running on three hours of sleep

instead i’ll tell myself, “i really don’t feel good right now, but i’m open to the possibility that coffee and breakfast might perk me up a bit.” or “i’m in a lot of pain today, but i’m open to the possibility that my workday might still have fun parts despite that”

sometimes, when your impulse is to slam the door on anything good, but you’re not exactly up to going out & hunting it down yourself, leaving the door open just a crack makes all the difference

[memewhore]

[quasi-normalcy]

"And you, SUH! Are you waiting to receive my LIMP PENIS!?"

[neurotiddies]

RB IF YOU AGREE

[stiksandthrones]

[theweirdwideweb]

[marlinspirkhall]

Scoot, scoot, scoot, scoot, scoot scoot scoot scoot

edit: this post is a severely different experience with the sound on

[Video shows a snake crawling across the sofa cushions while music plays in the background: "you said: ain't nothing gonna break my stride, nobody gonna slow me down, oh no, I got to keep on moving, ain't nothing gonna break my stride- [end video]

[jaubaius]

I came across the original video of the seagull meme! What a glorious day! I never realized it was a video, let alone a full throat and hearty evil villain laugh!

[maneth985]

Based on the memes pics I thought it screamed bloody murder, not laugh like a cartoon villain 🤣

[hickeygenderarchive]

st. george and the dragon (1908-9) - briton rivière / the vigil (1884) - john pettie / vanitas still-life (1705) - evert collier / david garrick as richard iii (1745) - william hogarth / micro sff stories tweet

[sadclowncentral]

TOYOTA HILUX TUESDAY

[ospreyonthemoon]

Car that will explode any cybertruck in a ten mile radius

[the-haiku-bot]

Car that will explode

any cybertruck in a

ten mile radius

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[formerlymaustown]

@yeahitsak

[harrisonthefulgurite]

[moxxie-by-proxxie]

woah

[redrosesshadowwolf]

Dude

Woah

[slothful-rabbit]

I laughed so fucking hard at this

[paint-lady]

[netherworldpost]

“Why should rich people pay more” because fuck ‘em

“So you are okay for paying more when you have money” I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘em’ when relevant

[pedulum-chronometry]

“I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘‘em’ when relevant” is surprisingly powerful as both a statement and philosophy

[were--ralph]

can't stop listening to this

[our-queer-experience]

i need to start a tag for videos that make me cry with joy