Duolingo Sucks, Now What?
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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?
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#2Have to say I really hate it when people boost the Anki clone AnkiApp over the original open source project.
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#3The formatting on this web site kind of sucks too. I measured 9 inches of horizontal whitespace border on each side of the strip of content that measures 4.5 inches wide. So a full 4/5 of my browser window is unused empty space.
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#4Has Duolingo ever worked for actual language learning?
It has always seemed more like pseudo-productivity to me.
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#5One of the main disappointments with Duolingo's recent path for me has been the removal of the forum. It was so useful whenever I was confused by a certain phrase or new concept to just hop directly into the discussion forum page for that exercise and see others asking the same questions and getting well-written intuitive answers to them.
Just boosted my understanding so much plus added a sense of community, that we're all going through this learning journey together and thinking about and getting confused by the same things :P Now I'm relegated to Googling the text of the exercise to find similar info online, just far less useful :(
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#6Has Duolingo ever worked for actual language learning? It has always seemed more like pseudo-productivity to me.
For speaking, maybe not. But for just reading comprehension in another language it works great. I used it for years and now I read the news in French quite often.
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#7The formatting on this web site kind of sucks too. I measured 9 inches of horizontal whitespace border on each side of the strip of content that measures 4.5 inches wide. So a full 4/5 of my browser window is unused empty space.
I think they have a custom tumblr theme, it's not usually _that_ compact.
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#8Says who?!
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#9Has Duolingo ever worked for actual language learning? It has always seemed more like pseudo-productivity to me.
As a data point, I stopped using it 10 years ago because I noticed I'd maxed out all the content for the language I was studying at the time without being able to actually, you know, speak or understand the language very well. Since then, all my friends who brag about their 1000 days streaks still can't speak those languages either. I think it's just gamified language learning that heavily emphasizes the gamification part at the expense of the learning part.
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#10WaniKani is great for reading Japanese.