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Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Anecdotally, a friend who's pretty handy at languages uses more Memrise than Duolingo now. Similar sort of setup, but with a different style of delivery - more visual cues and a better repetition approach.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

in my experience, Memrise teaches you useful phrases much faster, while Duolingo drills you about horses eating blue apples and turtles wearing yellow hats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

To be fair, as a Duolingo hater myself, I do see the logic in teaching wacky phrases. It at least gives me the impression that it makes it easier to improvise sentences based on the grammar you've learnt by drilling "the bear should eat some cheese when it rains" or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Learn how to say "two tabs of acid" in 10 languages

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just tried it out and I like it a lot better than duolingo.

Duolingo is super gamified and you can’t keep practicing after you made a few mistakes. I just practiced for an hour with memrise and it was nice. There’s also video exercises in the app, and you can also practice chatting (with an AI probably?). I hope it holds up.

I would love to compare babbel too, but Arabic is not available there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Awesome, I think I may go back to a language myself. Thanks for checking it out and letting us know!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just fyi you can keep practicing as much as you want in Duolingo, just tap the heart in the top right and click practice to earn more hearts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Huh, I didn’t know that. I just tried it out and it worked.

I think I’ll stick with memrise for now.

Thanks though!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

They also use AI.