officially deleting my duolingo account because
as some of you know, duolingo has converted to mostly AI, which means they laid off a vast majority of their workers. I'm fine with that as long as they gave them the right amount of time to find another job (I don't know if they did) AND their AI is actually accurate
I'm a beginning Spanish learner with missing knowledge I'm in Spanish 3 honors (with an embarrassing 9 years in learning the language) and I suck ass, but even I noticed how inaccurate Duolingo is
It doesn't teach very well. It has one huge unit that didn't teach me well and if I had a question it had no way for me to find an answer for it. It was just memorize. and memorizing a whole language with no reason behind it is impossible
again with the learning thing, it used hearts as a way for people to give them more money. a non payed for account gives you 5 hearts, gaining one heart every 2 hours which one is not very friendly to students who may not be able to pay and 2, after only one mistake they would just drop a heart and move on. was there a way to figure out what you got wrong? Yes, they would tell you the answer, but there are so many different answers in a language that it's so unfair. and also once you've dropped 5 hearts they immediately kick you out of the lesson without knowing what you did wrong that time. Yes, there was a way to gain back those hearts other than waiting 2 hours but you had to complete another lesson which most of the time didn't even revolve around what the original lesson were working on had or your mistakes.
For all you guys that want to delete but can't find another good, free site, I've found one called Wlingua.
It goes through each lesson slowly and simplistically in a way that really really helps you memorize everything quickly. It has both of the 2nd and 4th reasons while also giving people a whole other advantage to people who pay. It's really good, I don't even pay, and the only difficult thing about it is that if you speak english and learning spanish in particular then you have to scroll down past the first link that pops up on google to where it says "Wlingua — Spanish"
the only other downside to it is that it has limited languages compared to Duolingo. I'll post what they have down below:
this and Spanish
