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by the way character.ai is STILL AI and if you use it I automatically dislike you
#Same for meta ai#like are you kidding me#and duolingo#and Google gemini#And chat gpt#C.ai is one of the main problems in fandom nowadays#Ai#i hate ai
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you forgot about the parody blogs
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Marcille relearning her native language takes a turn
#dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi comic#marcille donato#delicious in dungeon#duolingo#loz fanart#fanart#dungeon meshi fanart#my artwork#fan comic
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If anyone was wondering, Duolingo just got even worse.
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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)
#EDIT: Added a great resource for ESL and African languages that weren't found elsewhere#I do NOT recommend memrise and will talk about it another day but#langblr#duolingo#duo#language learning#language learning apps#mandarinblr#resource#reference
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Heads up to not use Duolingo or to cease using it
In December 2023 they laid off a huge percentage of their translation teams, replacing them with ai and having the remaining members review the ai translations to make sure the translations are “acceptable” (Note how they use the world acceptable and not accurate)



Link to the tweet that informed me of this:
https://x.com/rahll/status/1744234385891594380?s=46&t=a5vK0RLlkgqk-CTqc0Gvvw
If you’re a current user prepare for an uptick in translations errors as I’ve already seen people in the comments say they’ve noticed
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Learning a new language really does make you aware of how many fucking words there are. Waaaaaay too many things in this world that need their own special little word. Grow up.
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we been knew its just a nail in a coffin tbh
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i was thinking about how many tourists must get akumatised in the mlb universe and how they would be able to understand ladybug and chat noir. then i remembered that adrien speaks like a billion languages so this is canon to me.
#mlb#miraculous ladybug#ladybug#marinette dupain cheng#adrien agreste#chat noir#marinette duolingo arc#i had to make a new duolingo account for this
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#i made this specifically about Duolingo because it pisses me off#me when i lay off a large amount of staff in favor of shitty ai but it's okay because i make funny tiktoks (i am a soulless corporation)#companies using shit like asmr or “girlies” in unmarked ads on social media#I hateeee you i hate you i hate you#every part of amusement had turned into advertisement#the legend of zelda#loz#tloz#ganondorf#good advice ganondorf#good advice
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i cannot keep quiet about this anymore.
if you're seeing this, check the reblogs or my "languages" tag for an addition!!
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 :)
#languages#language learning#mango languages#busuu#duolingo#<- in case people are using this tag to search for alternatives#this feels like a sponsor thing. it's not. i'm just autistic about language resources#i had to make a post about this bc my family and friends are tired of hearing about it LOL#orion originals
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Athena + young Ody training sessions but make it duolingo quotes
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If anyone was wondering if the Duolingo ai is really that bad ...
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every time i see what the Duolingo owl is up to or whatever Arby's latest crazy crossover is i get war flashbacks to the Denny's tumblr circa 2012ish. we could have stopped this. we saw a fish evolving legs and kept shoving it back into the water and it kept coming back and now we're drowning in legged fish. we should have stomped it into paste.
#i got a message in 2014ish from someone who said they were on the dennys tumblr team#and they followed my blog specifically as one of the handful of “popular” blogs to get a handle on the posting style#i checked her blog and her bio said she was 20 at the time and interested in online marketing#i think about her a lot. there's a pretty good chance she's behind whatever the duolingo owl is up to now.#she said she waited until after the dennys tumblr “experiment” was done to contact me bc she legally couldn't b4 that
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