What is your record Duolingo streak? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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I know they sometimes get a bad rap (especially recently with the lay offs https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/10/duolingo-ai-layoffs/), but it's still a nice app to use to get started with a language

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[-] imthehumanoid@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

0, I quit

Before I killed it, I had 443, and easily could have kept going if I had desired

The layoffs and AI thing are only a partial reason for me leaving The whole volunteer shutdown when that happened, hiding 4 of their courses, and some other minor bad decisions made me stop Not to mention, Duolingo is very slow at times and doesn't teach any grammar unless you happen to be learning one of the 3 top languages

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

Makes sense. Are you aware of any open source alternative?

[-] imthehumanoid@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Librelingo is the only thing I've seen close to what Duolingo tries to be, but sadly it seems under-developed and doesn't offer anything other than very beginner Spanish so far

https://librelingo.app/

[-] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

2200+ fire streak since I joined 10 years ago (multiple languages). Lost the streak a few times before. I'm not fluent but maintaining it helps me to improve a bit every day.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago

Impressive, which languages are you learning?

[-] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

Thanks. A few of them but main focus is Spanish. What about you?

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago

I'm learning Spanish too! We should create a community to practice ha ha

[-] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

Good idea. That's what I'm missing about Duolingo tbh. Let's start it. Maybe we should make a discord or alternative?

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago

I was more thinking about a Lemmy community, I asked about a Spanish instance a few days ago on !fediverse@lemmy.world, seems like there isn't any at the moment.

I have been thinking about it for a while, I'll keep you posted about the potential options

[-] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

What's wrong with this community if you want to keep it on Lemmy? I think it would fragment the community unnecessarily

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

We are not talking about the same thing, I was thinking more about a Spanish-specific community, where we could practice in that language :)

To my knowledge, there is none active so far, (https://lemmy.ml/c/espanol and https://lemmy.ml/c/spain being quite dead), there is one recent message on !espanol@lemmy.world, but I'm not a fan of having all communities on LW

[-] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I understand now, but I think this method wouldn't be an efficient one, except for sharing articles about learning that language but I think this c already is good enough for it. What I'm missing is a chat for group of people studying the same language, and where we can also converse orally. That's what DL is missing, and alternative I tried was full of unmotivated people.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

Well, it we were to speak the language, I guess that would work.

That's more or less how I learned English, by commenting on forums in English. The oral part indeed would need something else, isn't there any Discord existing already to practice?