I know they sometimes get a bad rap (especially recently with the lay offs www.washingtonpost.com/…/duolingo-ai-layoffs/), but it’s still a nice app to use to get started with a language
Before I killed it, I had 443, and easily could have kept going if I had desired
The layoffs and AI thing are only a partial reason for me leaving The whole volunteer shutdown when that happened, hiding 4 of their courses, and some other minor bad decisions made me stop Not to mention, Duolingo is very slow at times and doesn’t teach any grammar unless you happen to be learning one of the 3 top languages
Librelingo is the only thing I’ve seen close to what Duolingo tries to be, but sadly it seems under-developed and doesn’t offer anything other than very beginner Spanish so far
2200+ fire streak since I joined 10 years ago (multiple languages). Lost the streak a few times before. I’m not fluent but maintaining it helps me to improve a bit every day.
We are not talking about the same thing, I was thinking more about a Spanish-specific community, where we could practice in that language :)
To my knowledge, there is none active so far, (lemmy.ml/c/espanol and lemmy.ml/c/spain being quite dead), there is one recent message on !espanol, but I’m not a fan of having all communities on LW
I understand now, but I think this method wouldn’t be an efficient one, except for sharing articles about learning that language but I think this c already is good enough for it. What I’m missing is a chat for group of people studying the same language, and where we can also converse orally. That’s what DL is missing, and alternative I tried was full of unmotivated people.
Well, it we were to speak the language, I guess that would work.
That’s more or less how I learned English, by commenting on forums in English. The oral part indeed would need something else, isn’t there any Discord existing already to practice?
I think so? But it’s not like I spent more than 5 minutes a day practicing in the past 3 years or so. My sessions certainly go down depending on how busy I get.
Also fun fact: I had to practice German during my wedding. Didn’t go well with the wife but now she gets it. Hehe
I couldn’t imagine myself doing it either tbh, but I started learning on Duolingo as a personal challenge: to prove to myself that I can still learn something new every day and allay my irrational fear that I’m getting too old to improve at anything.
And it worked. That fear is gone now, but the streak goes on. Not letting it go cause I’m that stubborn.
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