Nobody has ever learned a language by using Duolingo anyways. It’s an app that lets you pretend your are doing something useful with your life instead of just slaving away at your job enriching others.
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JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks agoI’m a long time user of Duolingo and you earn plenty to give yourself the occasional streak freeze if you can’t go two days without doing a lesson. It’s not really as predatory as it sounds. It’s nothing like pay to win type games.
Fuck Duolingo for the AI shit though, don’t mistake me for a Duolingo simp thinking their blameless. It’s just that the monetization is not as predatory as it sounds.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have definitely learned a lot of Spanish from Duolingo, and while I’m not fluent, i went from being able to count to able to hold some basic conversations with Spanish people i know.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
You’re just pretending you are doing something useful with your life instead of just slaving away at your job enriching others.
/s, obviously. What a wild take they have.
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You had me to the /s, NGL
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Jesus fucking Christ, lighten up lol.
Sonor@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
the realest comment on lemmy, ever
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Ah, okay, thanks for the info! I’ve never used Duolingo so I genuinely don’t know.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think it should be added that people who pay premium get infinite lives, everyone else gets 1 wrong answer every 6-ish hours with a maximum of 5, meaning they can answer wrong at most 5 times and fail a lesson, forcing them to do a recap practice lesson to earn a heart and then retry the lesson with only 1 heart or they’re just done for the day.
J52@lemmy.nz 4 weeks ago
I have so many bonus points, I just get 5 new hearts. I find the lack of grammer in the free version holding me back (possibly by design, so I’ll finally pay for something). I think it’s time to leave for me too (I didn’t enjoy the gaming side and won’t tolerate AI integration, even if it’s free).
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
To win what? The lessons are not competitive.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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There actually is a weekly leaderboard bracket where you compete with about 30 to 50 other people.
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Completing a lesson is winning, losing all your lives is losing.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
A completely optional, side objective that has no bearing on anything else? You can completely ignore the leader board and still progress. It’s not competitive.
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Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
“Freezing” your streak is just silly, even if they offer it for free. Is this just for online clout, so you can brag (falsely) to others how long you haven’t broken a streak?
If an alcoholic goes 10 years without drinking, then has a beer, the streak is broken. Doesn’t mean you can’t recover and improve, but it is what it is. It’s dishonest to pretend it didn’t happen, especially if you’re comparing yourself to others…
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Really comparing missing a day of a language learning app to alcoholisn recovery?
Your streak doesn’t go up on days you use a freeze.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
No? It was a comparison of the streak, not the subject of the streak. That was just an example. My point remains. Unless you can literally stop time, the streak died. It’s okay that it did, but why pretend it didn’t?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
If you can’t see why someone might have a different criteria for a streak in days without alcohol as a recovering addict and days in usage of a learning application I can’t help you.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I have so many could probably keep a streak foing indefinitely without ever doing a lesson, but I’d need to log in every couple days to repurchase the streak freeze.