Re:Duolingo Sucks, Now What?
by pigcat on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @02:53PM
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+1 for Mango Languages (available free with my Library Card)
It's very well designed. The spaced repetition is effective. The lesson order is sensible. The Romanian lessons have a real speaker narrating the pronunciation, compared to Duolingo's AI narrator, which was terrible for learning.
I tried Duolingo briefly but the over-gamification wasn't for me. Everything was about gems and lives, major turnoff.
It's very well designed. The spaced repetition is effective. The lesson order is sensible. The Romanian lessons have a real speaker narrating the pronunciation, compared to Duolingo's AI narrator, which was terrible for learning.
I tried Duolingo briefly but the over-gamification wasn't for me. Everything was about gems and lives, major turnoff.