How Duolingo reignited user growth

Re:How Duolingo reignited user growth by vintermann on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:38AM (#34981230)

Have you tried it? Obviously it won't be as structured as proper teaching, but I suspect that cajoling it into being a helpful language practice partner should be possible even as it is today.

It's language skills are crazy impressive. I've found there's no reason to not interact with it in my native language, it speaks and understands it just as well as English - and that was definitively not the case with earlier incarnations of GPT that I have tried.

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Re:How Duolingo reignited user growth by comfypotato on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @09:30AM (#34982772)

I meant a version that had text to speech and speech to text incorporated so that you could actually talk to it.

I hadn’t considered textual conversations. That’s a good idea.

Personally I’m learning a couple of languages with foreign alphabets, so I’m really still in the stages of just learning the alphabets. (And Duolingo makes it possible by being casual and convenient.)

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