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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by madjam002 on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:18PM (#38919060)
Are there any better apps for learning a foreign language?
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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by Panini_Jones on Monday January 08, 2024 @06:19PM (#38919879)
I like Memrise. I did the full German course with them. It's similar to Duolingo.

I also suggest using something like News In Slow German to understand actual content generated (and read) by real people.

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by pahool on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:25PM (#38919156)
I prefer Mango Languages, which I get for free through my public library. The progression feels better to me, it's not as gamified (sorry for using that word), and there is some (though not a ton of) actual lesson content in there. For example, learning Spanish, it gives some context on the different usages of "Ser" vs. "Estar" for "to be", and it includes discussion on gendered nouns. DuoLingo may have gotten to some brief lesson content at some point, but for me it was too grating to continue with and I quit before I made much progress with it.
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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by Apocryphon on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:26PM (#38919175)
Language Transfer is free, non-commercial, and many swear by it:

https://www.languagetransfer.org

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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by lsllc on Monday January 08, 2024 @07:01PM (#38920361)
I'll heartily second this, Mihalis is great! I learned far more in the first 10 mins of LT than in months of Duolingo.
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Re:Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Cr... by johnnyanmac on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:20AM (#38927128)
No Japanese. I get it, but it does seem like choosing any Logo graphic language limits what services there are. At least if your base language is phonetic.
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