It really went to shit when they removed the forum which was one of the most useful parts of the whole app
Whoever owns all these companies that are so keen on replacing everything with AI better invest in defense robots because people are going to have a lot of time on their hand and very little money.
A lot of people don’t have much food on their table
But they got a lot of forks n’ knives
And they gotta cut somethin’- Dylan
Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to greedy executives.
Any recommendations for language learning that doesn’t involve Duolingo?
Lingodeer is pretty great. It has a similar free/premium model to Duo, but unlike Duo there is an option to buy premium perpetually rather than as a subscription (and it goes on sale sometimes!)
Assimil courses, fsi courses, language transfer, Clozemaster (app), Pimsleur.
The quality of duolingo has gone down massively in the past few years as they have done lay-offs, they don’t even have anyone checking the feedback coming from users any-more.
the courses themselves are worse too, designed more to stretch out app usage rather than teach more. I used to recommend duolingo as a good starter on learning a language, but it’s just so bad now that I won’t. And it seems to be a direct result of layoffs.
I did the Latin course last year and was unpleasantly surprised by how low quality znd even low quantity it was. Guess I’ll try Babbel next.
babbel is much worse
#fuckingcapitalists
