[left-reminders]

[meltymoth]

under a blue sky

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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)

[unionizedwizard]

I loved growing up with deranged christians because every once in a while, they'd say something that reveals or suggests an incredibly fucked up aspect of what they think the world is like, which let me do some reverse-worldbuilding to try and understand the broader implications of what they'd just said

[unionizedwizard]

i don't mean my parents by this (for once). my mother was on some unfathomable 19th century post-enlightened voltairian shit but also hardcore catholic for some reason (?) and i never managed to get my father to tell me what he thought about the whole god concept (but he built a wooden crucifix (like a 4 meters tall one) for the church because the priest heard he was good at carpentry) (he was. he should have had a career in home renovation or carpentry instead of becoming a philosophy teacher. but that's unrelated to the matter at hand).

but the people at church were on some......... like.......... medieval level of heresy?????? that was honestly fascinating to witness

like that one man who decided to train us (sunday school kids) at choir singing and would yell at us, with bloodshot eyes, "SING LOUDER! SING LOUDER! YOUR PURE INNOCENT CHILDREN VOICES MUST REACH THE LORD! YOU MUST SING LOUDER THAN THE CHOIR OF ANGELS SURROUNDING THE LORD AT ALL TIMES! YOUR VOICES MUST STRUGGLE WITH THOSE OF THE ANGELS AND PROVE THEIR SUPERIOR INNOCENCE AND PURITY!". and it turns out (pieced together after several unhinged monologues he made over the course of several months) that he apparently believed that the angels were there to

sing and play heavenly music to god, 24/7;

keep him complacent and his attention away from earth;

actively mute the sound of human suffering, and prayers, and religious songs, hymns, etc emanating from mankind, by creating a sort of musical forcefield against them

which is honestly such a fascinatingly bleak yet inspiring way to see it. and apparently, to him, the one thing that could rival the angels' music and singing was a children choir, since children were pure and innocent and thus had a chance to see their voices reach heaven, and therefore have a chance to bypass/fight the angelic music's influence

he didn't seem to think of the angels as antagonistic forces fighting against mankind, too. more like..... "god is tired and needs to sleep and to avoid stress and if he hears the cries and prayers and pleas of mankind he will get sad and/or angry and we can't have that, so we will have to soothe and placate him by pretending everything is fine and lull him into beatific sleep" . my man was practically convinced god was stuck in a psych ward, cared for by an army of singing nurses. what a concept. i'm sure you can get excommunicated for lesser transgressions than that

[realbooboo-deactivated20240825]

cringe ass ttrpg ocs

Meimei (Vampire the Masquerade) set in 2008 cringe chinese american weeb furry who after the campaign ended became a repressed adult who hid her cringe because she lived in a society

Baby Nix (Monsterheats) set in 2023 two-faced ass snake snitch bitch (affectionate) her trait is being toxic and horny (i love evil women)

Bugatti Leonard (Cyberpunk RED) set in 2065 broke brazilian celebrity plastic surgeon with a violent unmedicated shark dad who loves him very much (and a gecko sister that the shark dad brought along!)

[noizhazard]

Normal Meimei still fucks me up

how could you do this to her, you fiend

let her be cringe and free

[biggaybunny]

Hello I am generic city builder game. You must power your city somehow-- what's that? You want to use nuclear power? Okay, but, nuclear power is unstable, resource-consuming, and polluting. This is definitely how nuclear power works. Also there is no safe way to deal with nuclear waste, definitely not, which by the way is definitely canisters of glowing green goo that get produced by the truckload every day. Now why don't you use hydroelectric, which definitely has no environmental impact whatsoever, or maybe wind and solar, which are definitely cheap, plentiful, and universal solutions. I am a good game.

[reverberereration]

“Makima would call you slurs” absolutely brainless take. Makima would tell you she’s got your back and to let her know if anyone’s giving you trouble, then quietly out you to your most homophobic coworkers. She’d make a vicious public example of them right before they crossed a socially acceptable line, filling you with relief but further isolating you. When the whisper campaign forced you out she’d hug you a little too hard at your going-away party and murmur that she wishes you the best. Six months later when your savings are running dry she’d show up at your doorstep and explain that she was just in the area and thought she’d invite her old work buddy out for a drink. She’d be wearing the same white dress shirt even though it’s pouring rain and you’d go along even though your girlfriend is due back in less than an hour. At the izakaya she’d tell you she heard about a new job opportunity that she thinks would be a great fit, as long as you don’t have any other commitments right now. You’d ignore your girlfriend’s texts to listen to her. It’s in a new town. You’d have to move. She needs an answer before the end of the night.

[papayajuan2019]

i want love

[papayajuan2019]

it's coming

[byjove]

CREATURE????

[byjove]

just when you think it couldn’t be worse, you have to battle a creature

[byjove]

I’m choosing to believe him because I think there should still be mystery and adventure in the world

[ninjaduckpirategoose]

Okay I looked this one up. He said he talked to God, made up some songs, and lost nine kilos during his 20ish hours in the water. He was also completely nude when he was rescued.

[byjove]

hero’s journey

[byjove]

and this man? Odysseus

[trzpiotka]

he also ate some kind of stick

[szyszkasosnowa]

[tinderventure]

[seamusmclame]

[chloesimaginationthings]

CSM is my favourite shoujo

[kerpluvis]

this is what hatsune miku wears normally

[manicfmr1]

I woke up after a 12 hour nap and wanted to know how expensive this would be.

[eugeniedanglars]

just realized that there were definitely celebrities who got infected in the last of us which is hilarious to think about. imagine getting attacked by a zombie and your last thought before you die is "is that fucking justin timberlake?"

[mer-squatch]

[guardianofscrewingup]

[dragonomatopoeia]

i've died on smaller hills, so i can't judge. but i do think it's funny whenever posts about the proper definition of a poor little meow meow circulate, considering none of them mention that the origin was a kpop fan's absolutely bonkers tweet about not being able to protect a full grown man who was getting backlash for including audio from the jonestown cult leader jim jones in one of his songs

[emi--rose]

I was clearly not at the devils sacrament what the fuck

[bunniope]

full-force slamming my cock into a cliff face that ive painted to resemble a pussy after watching the roadrunner fuck it with ease

[yosaplyop-deactivated20230729]

That enough Tumblr for today

[bunniope]

log back on and read my post you son of a bitch

[leolaroot]

list of mammals that are bugs

1. jerboa.

[itznarcotic]

[lavenderlemniscate]

inaccurate, they will survive.

[postintheshell]

Dead Man's Volley