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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] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

I never liked Duolingo anyway. It's a bit stupid, it just teaches you some basic phrases without explaining the grammar behind it. So you're not really learning anything.

And I really hate 'gamification' in general. I love computer games but not gamified learning or exercising etc. It just puts me off.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Duolingo does have grammar lessons, they cover the parts of speech, rules, exceptions and interesting notes.

You actually have to click the grammar notes for each lesson, and many people skip it. Still it's up the user, not sure why this myth persists.

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

I'm studying a couple of languages that don't have English as the native tongue. They provide no grammar notes.

The ones with native English do, but accessing it is not intuitive since you have to go to the Units view.

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