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3000 Days of Duolingo

4 pointsby surprisetalk29 days ago

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angry_moose29 days ago
Duolingo is little better than a gacha game these days. It wasn&#x27;t bad early on but its nearly unusable these days.<p>I like Babbel a lot for early levels - its gotten me back to a rough-B2 German level. I was probably approaching C1 in college, slipped to an A2 from lack of use, but I&#x27;m building it back up; and spent a while learning Norwegian from scratch a couple years ago on it.<p>Pimsleur is probably next on my list once I top out on Babbel to build up speaking.<p>Interesting idea on the ChatGPT sentence prompts. I&#x27;m not sure I fully trust it for that, but its worth a try.<p>Edit: Hm. Interesting idea. It&#x27;s definitely a bit better at German than me, but its still making a handful of mistakes (as compared against other sources).
nofalsescotsman29 days ago
Duolingo is at best a fancy substitute for flashcards. It really fails at language acquisition, but might help a little in word memory.