Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄

GongFuFlashSteep@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• RadicalEagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Quit your current life and move to a country where they speak the language you want to learn. Get a menial job in a small town, find new friends, and learn what love is. Then you’ll know what it truly means to speak a language.

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  • xxd@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the language equivalent of the “I have a small issue with this software.” - “Have you tried switching your OS to Linux?” conversation lol

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lol it’s almost even more extreme and has a common trope I love. “Hey I got this spam text…”

      “Burn all your devices. Remove yourself from the grid. Scrub your identity. Purchase a single burner phone. Root it and install Graphene. Yes it’s hard. Google it. Wait, don’t google it. Search for it elsewhere. Amass money somehow without using technology. Cut off your family ties. You need to move to another country. You will need a work visa to move to most countries. But to get that you will need an accepted job in advance. And to have that you will probably need to access technology. Instead, buy a fake passport, because very few countries will just let you ‘move somewhere’ with a ‘menial job.’ Once you get there, develop passive income streams and quit your job. After you have been a landlord for two years you will finally know what it’s like to claim that being a landlord is a real job because you need to talk to tenants and file paperwork natively for an hour or two a week.”

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      • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I lost it at “root it and install Graphene.” GrapheneOS does not work with rooted devices, and rooting is considered a security risk by the Graphene dev team haha.

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      • RadicalEagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or when Scout explains his date plan to Spy.

        Spy: you have a dinner date for 7. What time do you arrive? Scout: 7… AM. Case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the cook be trusted? If not I’ve gotta kill him. Dispose of the body, replace him with my own guy no later than 4:30.

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  • Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anyone know how to afford moving costs?

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Crime

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      • Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sound advice!

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mango Languages is available for free through many libraries and has an app.

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• boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At this point I’m thinking I’ll just take a trip to Tenerife to continue learning Spanish.

  Other apps aren’t good at gamification I hear - and that was the only thing that kept me using it till a while ago. I have ADHD. The leveling up, streaks, etc, is what kept me going when the novelty of learning yet another foreign language wore off - I already had to learn two in school and I only ever really use one of them, you can guess which one.

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• Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Busuu is a lot like Duolingo but you also get to trade corrections with real people learning your native language

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  • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes I love Busuu! I switched about a years ago and I feel like it’s actually been teaching me Dutch instead of just brute force vocabulary memorization.

    My only complaint is that it’s really aggressive about asking for you to subscribe. I just close the popups and I haven’t ran into anything that I cant do.

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• Cossty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lingodeer for more languages Renshuu for Japanese

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• Sonor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  HelloChinese if you want to learn that

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• BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I switched to using CBC’s Mauril from Duolingo, and it’s been good, but it’s only available to Canadian residents (or VPN users) and it’s only for French. So it worked for me but obviously that covers a small subset of Duolingo users.

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• seeking_perhaps@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Look up ALG language learning. That’s the best way to learn languages.

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• LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  WITH AIRLEARN SEÑOR WHITE!

  bsky.app/profile/…/3lgq7zqh2ok2s

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