We need a “thank you for sharing and fuck that!” Option, not just a like and dislike
Well, Duolingo CEO is a cunt.
Duolingo CEO should be replaced by AI.
I’m convinced it takes a special kind of sociopath to be a CEO.
In other news: AI is a better human than Duolingo CEO
you know, I still say punching people who say stupid stuff, would cut down the stupid stuff people say, by at least half…
is there an alternative to duolingo that lets me learn multiple languages for a decent price? Rosetta stone was great and all, but i ain’t got 100 bucks to shell out for each language i want to half-assedly learn.
I just dumped Duolingo after this AI bullshit and am testing Mango Languages. So far I like it, but it is way different than Duolingo. Way less gamified and more focused on speaking. Plus, it gives cultural context to certain phrases that don’t literally translate, which I find interesting and valuable. if you are in the US, your library might offer a free subscription with your library card.
I heard a positive remark on Lemmy about https://www.languagetransfer.org/ recently and have been meaning to have a look
Absolutely love language transfer. At least for Greek it was great, the founder Mihalis is a British Cypriot.
Nope, there are no ways to learn a language other than using an online service. Any other way is deemed impossible
Pimsleur. It’s very different than Duolingo, in that it is almost entirely audio-based. However, at least in my experience, it actually gets you to the point of speaking and understanding a language much more rapidly than Duolingo. Way, way less gamified though. It expects you to put in half an hour a day where you just concentrate on the lesson.
You may want to check and see what your local library offers for language learning services, some provide Rosetta Stone to card holders free.
I regret that I have no duolingo account that I can cancel.
Puts his children in private school without computers.
I say: I can’t stand the CEO of Duolingo, and his supremely punchable smirk-face.
AI is better at running companies than humans-but CEOs will still exist ‘because they want money’
So many rich psychopaths in capitalist societies.
The system is designed to make psychopaths successful and powerful.
and as such the system is beneficial to minorities (specific ones, not all).
which ones?
I think they were meaning the billionare class and they just phrased it very suspiciously.
You could be right but I’d rather let 'em answer the question for themself.
I was meaning the wealthy and the cutthroat.
All good. Maybe just be a bit more specific next time so it doesn’t sound like you’re saying “(((minorities)))”
What a load of crap. Big tech is not the solution, it’s not even the question, it’s the problem.
Certainly nobody needs Duolingo to learn anything
I use duolingo every day and it’s alright for vocabulary. It actually recently had some voice exercises to practice everyday conversation and it has been great as well.
Depends what you want kids to learn.
Propaganda, yes; everything else, no…
He’s right. I went to highschool with 50 kids per class, where teachers played on their phones, or hid in their office, or just switched jobs requiring year round substitutes. I took remedial math because that was what had room, and when my teacher realized that he looked like he died inside a little bit.
He’s right… in that AI is better than some teachers. AI is a step up for some kids.
The problem, though, is a lack of prioritization in education, especially in the US. It’s a constant: more kids, fewer teachers. Teachers also get paid very little for what they deal with. Many teachers end up having to spend their own money to buy supplies the kids need. Meanwhile, my hometown has had 2 multi-million dollar embezzlement scandals that I know of. There was a news story a few years ago where the education board was making boatloads of cash, and teachers got jack (I can’t find the article, but I think it was during the pandemic).
Most schools when I was a teenager, would gladly buy up new football gear, a new coach bus (because the one from a couple years ago is just, not flashy anymore) but other departments can’t get new books (I remember using books from the late 80s… and it wasn’t the 80s), supplies, equipment, larger school buildings, more teachers, etc.
A teacher having even 20 kids is too many. We need more teachers, we need to prioritize education funding and standards. We don’t need AI.
You can give the school all the money in the world and it wont make a difference if you can’t find teachers. The assumption that you’ll always have enough teachers if you just pay enough isn’t true. Every kid will always need an education, not every adult wants to teach, and this disparity will always towards the students with strictly human teachers.
You can trust when I say, if it wasn’t so well known that educators get the raw deal right now, there would be way more teachers. I for one, thought about being a teacher and still do. But the terrible pay, the lack of funding… really detured me and I’m sure a bunch of folks away. I know people who actively suggest people away from going into teaching, because they don’t want to see the person just struggle and watch their passion die.
It’s not a problem of finding the supply (teachers), it’s about creating the demand (way better pay and working conditions)
Sounds like your school needed better funding and more teachers. 50 students per class? I’m sorry you had to suffer that. This is the future that people like the CEO of DuoLingo want. They want to gut traditional education. Don’t see how this makes him right about anything.
That’s pretty hilarious considering I’ve been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it’s been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.
Airlearn isn’t quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we’re used to in English. An LLM could never.
Worse than they used to be?
By a long shot. The sentences have been absolutely unhinged the last couple of weeks, and full of words I haven’t learned on top of that.
