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teufel100😈<p>Scheinbar hat der andere gerade genug gelernt. Das ist gut, dann kann ich jetzt auch erst mal aufhören. Ich musste ja den Rückstand, den ich mir gestern eingehandelt hatte, ausgleichen und jetzt sind wir fast gleich, dann kann es morgen noch spannend werden ;) <a href="https://social.guckt.info/tags/duolingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Duolingo</span></a></p>
teufel100😈<p>Ich kämpfe gerade auf <a href="https://social.guckt.info/tags/duolingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>duolingo</span></a> um Platz 1 in der Liga, obwohl ich eigentlich schon gar keine Lust mehr habe ;)</p>
Gonçalo Ribeiro<p>Finished <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WaniKani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaniKani</span></a> level 24.</p><p>I'm making an effort to study/practice grammar every day and go through <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Genki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genki</span></a>. This week's been the best in a long time.</p><p>I'm also about to drop <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Duolingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Duolingo</span></a>. It never brought me much value, and I'm feeling it's just wasted time, even if only ~5 minutes a day (can invest those is grammar). It's a chore. Today I jumped to the end of a section and tried a lesson in the new section. It was more interesting in terms of grammar. I'll probably do a few more jumps to test myself sometimes, but I'll not try to keep a streak any longer.</p>

Duolingo is getting weirder and weirder since they went all in on #ai

I stopped doing most of the lessons and just did a word a day as a keepie-up. But, er.

Araña means chandelier? Tea translated to merianda instead of té, this actually makes sense to me as a northern brit, but who else is going to think tea means snack time?

Weird words with weird uses and not in a fun way, in an ai slop kinda way.

So, I got the #Duolingo GDPR takeout yesterday. (I always find it amusing that the sites constantly say "a data takeout will take up to 30 days" and when you actually ask for the takeout it finishes in no time at all. Clear indication of how well the tech stack actually works. [cough]Reddit takeouts take over a week[cough])

It's actually pretty surprising how little data there actually is. Yeah, it has the course progress, but... doesn't really help much, now does it?

Anyway, account deletion is in progress too because I'm not going back to Duolingo. Also, it's strangely liberating when I look at my habit tracker and it now says "Language lesson" instead of "Duolingo", yay. I had an incredibly productive day yesterday and expect today to be no different.

Trying #duolingo again because I can't find another good app for #norwegian. But have found some great ones for reference and vocabulary building. Right now it's really proper grammar I'm trying to learn. But it looks like Duo stripped off at least the veneer of shit from it, because you can go further a little longer. Norsk lessons in the morning over coffee, I've found, helps my mind switch into a bilingual state. So if someone messages me in Norsk, my brain is primed. #language we

At first I was panicking, because I knew it was morning and time for #Duolingo, but then I realised since I'm a free tier user now I couldn't do the challenges yesterday, so my bonuses are fucked, and I don't need to worry about it any more.

In related news, looking for Duolingo alternatives!

Scheiß #Duolingo.

Nachdem ich wochenlang gemobbt wurde, habe ich mal eine Muttersprachlerin sprechen lassen - die Erkennung funktioniert einfach nicht. Und das bei den meisten Zahlen. Macht echt keinen Spaß so ☹️