The AI slop is why I quit Duolingo after my 1500+ day streak.
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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Is there an alternative? I just started using it but the experience is incredibly grating, especially the way they gate your progress behind "lives" that stop you learning unless you can pay.
if the labor cost goes down, the service should become cheaper.
if it worked like that, i'd love to have AI replace humans.
AI isn't the problem. capitalism is.
My son is going to be sad that we don't use duo anymore
your local public library (if in US) should offer free language courses online - all you need is a library card
If you looking to replace dualingo, check with your local library, they may offer free access to different language learning apps. I was able to get Rosetta Stone for free using my library. And they also have access to Muzzy and Transparent language.
So is there any Duolingo alternative that teaches Esperanto and Indonesian?
Esperanto you can learn on lernu.net
Let's also replace the customers by AI, that way the whole system will really be "AI first" and self-sufficient.
Afraid to find out what an AI Karen would be like.
it's a matter of time (or more likely has already happen) where an AI company ends up having only AI users, it makes money be selling adds to show to the users, which are all AI bots, and then selling those bots as user data.
then said company celebrates that it has no humans involved making a shit ton of profit.
So Twitter?
So they've killed themselves before adding Armenian.
Makes sense.
As an Armenian with family murdered by the Turks. What was the point of this?
Trying to help Duolingo add Armenian is something I've read about in 2018 or something like that, and it's still there. They are very firmly not interested.
Well that’s some BS. Why the fuck don’t they have Armenian? Are they Turkish run?
I dunno, but there were plenty of volunteers. Eastern Armenian is far from a dead language after all. Especially when comparing to Icelandic or Welsh. Those are awesome languages too, though, alongside Coptic and Assyrian.
I was also hoping they would add Afrikaans.
i cancelled my subscription and told them why
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