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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 the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"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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Bo Bartlett (American, b.1955) Leviathan - 2000

Leviathan shows the biblical story of Jonah in a contemporary light.

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Renée Stout - Erzulie's Mirror (The Crying Mirror), 2013

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Silver binding for an Esther scroll. Italy, 18th century.

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Palestinian activists get their message across on Londons iconic Tower Bridge landmark- one of the cities most historic buildings. We need a ceasefire now.

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Ayer by Jacobo Borges. 1975

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ILLUMINATED MINIATURE QUR’AN IN FITTED BOX (Turkey, Ottoman, dated 951 H/1544 AD).

Arabic manuscript on paper consisting of 325 leaves plus 2 flyleaves. Written in black ink, ruled in black, gold and blue. Completed 3 Safar 951 AH (April 1544 AD) and dedicated to Shams al-Din Yusef Qabji.

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the church of saint george/al-khidr (saint george) mosque in lydda, palestine.

newer houses of worship taking the place of older ones on the same sites is a history common throughout the middle east and europe - what makes this one different is that it houses both the "older" and "newer" ones at once. the original structure was a crusader church built on top of the ruins of a byzantine one, and a ruined section in its west became a sunni mosque during the mamluk period. in the 19th century, orthodox melkites got permission from the ottomans to build the church in the eastern section.

the church's crypt contains a sarcophagus venerated as the symbolic tomb of saint george (last picture).

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2048x1365 Inside view of the Melkite Catholic Basilica of Saint Paul in Harissa, Lebanon, built 1947-1962 by the renowned Armenian-Lebanese architect Mardiros Altounian.

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The Dove’s Lost Necklace طوق الحمامة المفقود (Nacer Khemir, 1991)

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Le Chansonnier Cordiforme, c. 1470, music manuscript ― facsimile by Vicent García Editores of Valencia, Spain

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st. catherine of siena drinking from christ's side wound

in a hagiography of st. catherine of siena, alsace, early 15th c.

source: Paris, BnF, ms. allem. 34, fol. 43v

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Rare example of an illustrated Esther Scroll from India, 19th century

In light of the opening inscriptions in Marathi and Gujarati, it seems likely that the present scroll originates in the Maharashtran capital of Mumbai. It may be possible that the artist of this scroll was a member of the Bene-Israel who was executing a commission for a wealthy Baghdadi coreligionist. The complete absence of any other illustrated Esther scrolls from India in this style or even from the same period puts this truly unique megillah into a class by itself.

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Proust’s longest translated sentence

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𝑇𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦, 13𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 | we are gonna ignore the fact that I’m making this post at 2 am, I am still doing the 100 dop even though I’m not posting enough [ a girl simply have no energy okay] the winter has settled in, there’s a new pastry shop right outside my house and now my living room smells like it, re-connected with a childhood friend life is good.

🎧: 𝐻𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐_ 𝑅𝑀 𝑓𝑡. 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒 | 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚

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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

- The Song Of Achilles, Madeline Miller