#duolingo be like

[brother-hermes]

RIGHT DUOLINGO….

Because this is going to come up a lot in general conversations. 😂

[aleatoryw]

getting blazed as fuck in public, thinking "boy I sure hope no one knows how high I am right now", and then having the jumpscare of your life when duolingo gives you this notification

[magpiesketchins]

It's midnight so I'm posting bi/pansexual men

I have a lot of feelings about Logan with an ownership kink please someone give me an excuse to talk about Logan with an ownership kink I'm dying

[gregorovitch-adler]

Translation: Junior, I have told you several times that Lily prefers to be single, remember?

Lily is the new aroace icon. That's all.

[frostwinddandelion]

[pixlokita]

Me: Im so burnt out and exhausted I wonder if anyone else feels the same

Duolingo bird:

[toallthingscinderellaboy]

[front-facing-pokemon]

[selfloathingextraordinaire]

With what's happened with Duolingo, I'm looking for a new language app, but need some help.

Is there a Japanese language app that is:

Great for people with learning disabilities (my brain struggles with language and has to learn it very slowly)

Kid friendly

Colorful

I've seen a bunch of posts with all these recommendations, but it's super overwhelming and I have no idea where to start.

[britcision]

In today’s round of “Generative AI does not do the things you think it does”

Paypal has completely fucked their customer service interface by replacing any… y’know… email tech support options with a Message Center AI

Now

I invite you to pause for 30 seconds and think of the simplest, most basic, least plausible way an AI could possibly fuck up something like filing a bug report

Just give it a minute

The simplest, most ridiculous way to fuck it up

Hold it in your mind

Ready?

The LANGUAGE

It changed the language in the browser to Spanish

And then to German, and addressed me as Dr Hellmut

As thrilled as I am to participate in identity fraud and obtain a degree, doing it in German isn’t ideal given that I do not speak German

I fear this will make it hard to be convincing

It also didn’t solve my problem (“I would like to submit a bug report”) but I genuinely did not expect it could fuck up the language we were speaking

Generative AI out here truly testing the boundaries of what we thought was possible by fucking up on whole new fundamental levels

[galoogamelady]

YOU'RE BRAZILLIAN !???!? AND I DIDN'T KNOW FOR THE LONGEST TIME ? BUTTONS ERA UM PAISANO ESSE TEMPO TODO ?

I'm not, I just have good taste in friends 😉

[ag40249]

nooo don't take his bestie away

[orion-my-rion]

i cannot keep quiet about this anymore.

if you're in the US or Canada and interested in learning a language using a free app please get a library card and download MANGO. it's very good and extremely free with a library card (there are many public libraries and universities using the service, so make an account and use the search feature here to find out if there's one near you).

mango currently has 72 available languages and dialects (that's right! different courses for french or canadian french! spanish or latam spanish!). it's set up basically like an audiobook with text. the idea is that the narrator explains the words while you read, and you repeat after them or say the translation out loud when prompted. there's a daily review where you go through flashcards. you can also use the flashcards at your leisure and create your own. at the end of each chapter there's a listening comprehension quiz and a reading comprehension quiz. i cannot emphasize how effective this all is. and it's free with a card.

if you're not in the US or Canada and/or looking for something more like duolingo (don't use duolingo btw tldr they fired translators and replaced them with "ai"), then try BUSUU! it only has 14 languages atm but the lessons are really descriptive and effective. it also has a feature where you can correct other people's open-ended speaking/typing exercises. you set your fluent languages, and exercises by people learning those languages will appear in your feed for you to correct. you can even add others as friends! and, much like duolingo, it has a streak and leaderboard system for you to strive for, minus the guilt-tripping owl.

busuu is free (you watch ads to unlock lessons and they're all skippable after like five seconds), although it also has paid premium/plus versions (i don't use the paid version—the language courses are available for free, and the ad system is Really unobtrusive).

so that's my wisdom for the day. mango and busuu. please check them out :)

[cellgatinbo]

love how it's seemingly a universal thing for qsmp members when something gets postponed or they don't have anything to do for a bit they're like "oh shit this is the time to do my duolingo"

[appleciderjulie]

hey guys i like drawing cutesy stuff that’s actually monumentally fucked up

anyways how we feelin tonight

[rubilune]

Okay but, like, we all agree the girls from Duolingo are dating, right?

I mean... You can argue with the wall for all I care