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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and all endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

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We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

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A group of workers getting refreshments from a portable snack stand underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, ca. 1955.

Photo: Three Lions/Getty Images via Time magazine

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“There is no other road to faith; if one wishes to escape risk, it is as if one wanted to know with certainty that he can swim before going into the water.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments

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quels mots pour écrire ? ceux qui tournent manège fou s’envolent ballons de fête foraine ceux qui se cachent sous la mousse sous les pierres les mots légers comme une trace d’oiseau sur le sable ceux qui tracent en terre un sillon parfait ceux écrits à l’encre invisible des pleurs ceux récoltés au hasard des trains des chambres de passage ceux qui avancent nus qui guérissent qui pirouettent ceux qui nous regardent et nous attendent avec la patience des siècles

Gaëlle Josse, Et recoudre le soleil (via prosedumonde)

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throwback to when I had to make a tumblr-style aesthetic for "the stranger" for school

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“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

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#me, 5 minutes after doing the bare minimum

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coronavirus preparedness starter pack

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Vanilla Sky (2001) dir. Cameron Crowe

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“Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.”

— Sofía // Vanilla Sky

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Mood.

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“La souffrance par elle-même, dit-il, ne suffit pas toujours. Il y a des cas où les êtres humains supportent la douleur, même jusqu'à la mort. Mais il y a pour chaque individu quelque chose qu'il ne peut supporter, qu'il ne peut contempler. Il ne s'agit pas de courage ni de lâcheté. Quand on tombe d'une hauteur, ce n'est pas une lâcheté que de se cramponner à une corde. Quand on remonte du fond de l'eau, ce n'est pas une lâcheté que de s'emplir les poumons d'air. C'est simplement un instinct auquel on ne peut désobéir.”

— George Orwell - 1984

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