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rowdyrockets@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I ended my sub and deleted my account when they announced they’d be replacing their contact workers with AI.

Lingonaut looks promising. And I’ve been trying out Language Transfer for Spanish. I’ve learned more about how Spanish “works” in an hour of Language Transfer than I did with months of Duolingo. I’m smacking myself for wasting the time - though I do enjoy the gamification.

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SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The gamification only works until you figure out the rules they used.

I have completed multiple lessons on Duolingo without ever reading the prompt. I even started a language I knew nothing about because I felt like I wasn’t actually absorbing anything in the language I’d spent more than a year on, and pretty much the same results. After a few lessons it became possible to complete lessons basically blind.

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- rowdyrockets@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I mean yeah none of that is wrong but all I said was I like gamification in learning, not that Duolingo was the best form of gamification ever presented.
  
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  - SippyCup@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m just glad I pirated the premium version
    
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JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
+1 for language transfer.

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garretble@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If you have a library card, you might check with your library to see if they have free access to something like Mango Languages, as well.

Mine does, so I can use that app for free. I’m probably going to switch to it as my main app soon because this guy is an asshole.

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gradual@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You shouldn’t have given them money in the first place.

Did you learn your lesson? I will assume not and you’re going to throw money at the next company.

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- rowdyrockets@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What a sad little man you must be. Go virtue signal somewhere else.
  
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  - gradual@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Lol. I guess not.
    
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    rowdyrockets@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There’s no lesson to be learned dipshit. I give money to companies when I want to use their products, and I stop when I don’t. You’re not enlightened - you’re just an asshole.
    
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shrodes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I quite like Busuu after switching from Duo. Still hanging out for a Japanese Language Transfer course

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