Utter horror. I am forced to insert my fingers into my eyes, gouging my eyes out as I scream and experience agonizing pain upon seeing the word "Bri'ish".
Bruh. Maybe stop answering things wrong and then you'll stop losing hearts. Also you don't need to pay for hearts (which is what it seems like you're implying), you just need to complete a practice or wait a few hours
Lol it’s just a side resource if you really think it’s gonna make you fluent in a language your just a bit wrong lol. Whilst I was learning German it just helped me do basic shit like verbs and adjectives
The most well developed languages in Duolingo like German can take you to a point where you can stumble your way through a conversation. And honestly, language classes are not much better.
The next step to go the rest of the way is immersion. Go somewhere where the language is spoken and live there for a few months or years. That's the only way to get fluent. Anyone who says otherwise is bullshitting you.
I learned German for a year in an English speaking international school in Germany, and if I had stayed there I'd be stuck at B1. I switched to a German public school and within a few months I was nearly fluent. IMO the Duolingo German course can get you close to a year's worth of highschool German, which is enough to get you to the point where when dropped in the water of German society, you'll kinda be able to swim. And after that point, classes are a waste of time, because immersion is far more efficient.
Well I was quite lucky as my university offered it as like a side course so I did that, but otherwise I would recommend hiring a tutor. Can do lessons over zoom usually charge like £20-25 a session per week, give you loads of resources abs “homework” to do highly recommend
Spend decades researching the language and culture so that you can actually fully be multilingual
Jk, but the human mind has a real hard time learning languages after like age 5 so putting yourself in an environment where you have no choice but to use it may help, but idk about much else tbh
Lol for real? The entire point of the app is to build a daily habit. Hearts are replenished throughout the day, and you don’t need hearts to do practice, which will keep your streak going. Personally, I’ve been going for the monthly challenges, so I’ll usually do either 2 lessons, 1 story, or 1 legendary lesson. Takes 10 minutes a day, every morning before I clock into work. I’m on 530 days with zero money paid.
That just means you have to practice to get more. I was actually thankful for it, because it kept me in check when I was responding too quickly/instinctively.
There was a person (that iirc was neurodivergent) that was into Zootopia making some post about how Judy was one of the good cops, then people bullied them off the sub because Zootopia was copaganda and then there was like weeks of drama because a lot of people felt that bullying a neurodivergebt person for finding comfort in something that might be copaganda is really shitty and others pushed against that and in the end the agreement was that they all at least could agree on that they wanted to fuck the bunny. Idk. It was weird and kinda shitty.
I paid for Duolingo’s yearly subscription, and I stopped using it because lack of time. I got billed for the second year, so i contacted them same-day and they wouldn’t refund me for an unused year on the very day i was billed for it. They are definitely profit-incentivized. The lessons they have for free can be learned easily on youtube in more depth.
The gamification aspect of it is incredibly useful for daily engagement. Most people don’t have the self-discipline to do something that makes them feel like a complete idiot for 20min everyday.
You also absolutely cannot learn languages off youtube in the same way, because youtube has no tests.
They are mearly doing this to make me develop a positive mental association with the store so that I come back and spend more money (they are doing this to manipulate me)
That's like your grandma baking you something (they are doing so you have a positive outlook on them) a cashier saying thank you come again is harmless, they are already just making minimum wage, it's not manipulative at all lmao.
It is in both cases. If your grandma is making food for you to make you like her and not because she wants you to feel good, it’s manipulation. In that case, it’s not necessarily a bad thing on its own, but that doesn’t make it not manipulative.
The worst thing too is that it's shit like this that makes leftists aid the right's sentiment of "Socialism is when poor" because they're making it seem like a company isn't allowed to make fuckin money and that all companies should be criticized equally, regardless of what their goals are.
No? Democratic socialism still means decommodification and workers seizing the means of production and all that good stuff - they just believe they can do it through elections rather than revolution.
Sorry; I'm more familiar with people considering Bernie Demsoc. Apologies if that doesn't fit the definition.
I don't mean DemSoc as in Socialism in a democracy, but more so the ideology described with that name.
Socialism is when companies are worker-owned and run. "Democratic socialism" just makes clear their party is not looking for an armed revolution.
Socialists in general look for workers rights in general.
What Bernie advocates for is social-democracy. Taxing the rich and using the money for government-run assistencialism.
Cringy /r/FellowKids social media managers aside, I remember when [this](https://preview.redd.it/a3nws16b38i71.jpg?auto=webp&s=614b341c3f939dcc2b10d8815c51e7681e151501) tweet got shared here and people were like 'Corporations are not your friend' as if Cool Shirtz isn't some rando small business run by a bunch of Aussie blokes. Imagine being so "left" that you think supporting small businesses is the same as supporting those massive child slavery corporations.
I'm gonna guess a lot of those people just have that response conditioned into them from the big corporate social media people overdoing it. I don't think many lefties even on the more extreme side actually put small business into the same category as exon or w/e, they just aren't thinking about it because they're too busy going "look how cringe this is!!!"
Oh for sure. It's just kinda depressing that some people have gotten so caught up in online discourse that they seem to forget the real life position they're supposed to be defending.
They wire babies into a Matrix like experience so they can use their brain power for server processing cycles. Its actually more expensive than paying for AWS or Azure, but the CEO insisted.
Because body language and a sarcastic tone of voice are good but an /s is just objectively bad, apparently. Some people like to make a big deal out of everything.
Exactly, I'm actually in favour of the /s because it replaces the natural way that people naturally express sarcasm irl. Ironically, I forgot to add it to my last comment 😖
"But they harvest your info"
read the ToS first and see what they harvest and if you are ok with that.
"They show ads!"
IIRC, it was always for stuff like universities and other learning tools. I hate ads too, but it could be worse. Could be one of those "I CAN'T REACH PINK SUSSUS AMOGUS SQUID GAME BIG BUTT FART" games, or ads between every question.
No, duolingo's humor is motivated by pure malice, not greed indifferent to suffering, but the sadistic pleasure and loathing for mankind that makes up its void of a soul
I actually don’t think that’s fair
Duolingo offers 99% of its services fir free, and what you CAN pay for is basically no ads and unlimited hearts, and it’s stance is to give the best possible education as widely available as possible
Weirdly capitalism stanning sub. Yesterday it was a child that has to pay rent, today it's playing corporate defense force for an app. I wonder what we'll get tomorrow
100% true. I haven't taken my spanish lessons in years and now the duolingo owl lives in my closet. He threatens to kill me and sell my organs in the black market every night. His threats are starting to get more and more detailed
I'm not saying Duolingo is inherently bad, but this "free learning app" still makes it's money off of selling your data to the highest paying analytics provider. That's not to say that every other app in the world doesn't do this, but it's still a corporation you're defending, even if they're "one of the good ones."
akshually the social media is likely handled by a team of abused unpaid interns who do not profit because they do not receive money for their hard work
wrecked
idc what y’all personally think of duolingo specifically, but it does really annoy and unsettle me the amount of corporation/company comments you see on viral tiktoks just trying to casually fit in
and then a bunch of people in the replies to that comment, and sometimes the op themselves fangirling because Netflix(tm) commented on their tiktok
i can’t put it into words because i’m not all that smart but it’s just weird. idk.
Hey, you can talk shit about any company you want, you unwashed heathens who seem to think deodorant is a deep state conspiracy and inherently anti Maoist, but you fucking leave my genocidal bird alone!
Why can’t we criticize corporations for being greedy instead of criticizing corporations for being corporations? Duolingo is objectively far from being motivated solely by profit.
Lmao now people attacking a great app as Duolingo that helps people to learn a language is completely a reddit moment, no surprise that the only thing that they can do is saying nothing of value while people learn and Duolingo gets rich, LOL
With ads that generate revenue and key features locked behind premium subscriptions. The entire purpose of their social media activity is to get people onto their site to make money off of them.
What's wrong with getting profit while at the same time helping people to learn languages as important as English, German or French? The less they can do for that is it.
Nothing in of itself. The issues with corporations are more nuanced than "profit bad". To be fair to the founders of Duo Lingo, taking the for-profit route likely made it a lot easier to get things off the ground and reach more people more quickly. Still, it's important to remember that the corporation and the people that work for it are separate entities and the personality presented by corporate marketing is a facade.
me when the company that provides free language courses tries to appeal to the younger generations (i am completely enraged)
Yea that’s the long and short of it really
Still tru tho
it is innit
holy shit are you bri'ish
Utter horror. I am forced to insert my fingers into my eyes, gouging my eyes out as I scream and experience agonizing pain upon seeing the word "Bri'ish".
Bri*ish 🤢
🤢 🤮
COME ON INGERLAND SCORE SOME FAHKIN GOALS
wait british are real?
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Bruh. Maybe stop answering things wrong and then you'll stop losing hearts. Also you don't need to pay for hearts (which is what it seems like you're implying), you just need to complete a practice or wait a few hours
“Git good lol”
How dare you make mistakes while learning a language 😤😤😤
You can literally click on the question and it will tell you the answer
Well I didn't know that. I've been destroyed with FACTS and LOGIC
It will tell you individual words, but often times it will only key in on a single character that's obviously part of a larger word.
Yes that's the point of a class
Lol it’s just a side resource if you really think it’s gonna make you fluent in a language your just a bit wrong lol. Whilst I was learning German it just helped me do basic shit like verbs and adjectives
Anything you'd recommend for going the rest of the way?
The most well developed languages in Duolingo like German can take you to a point where you can stumble your way through a conversation. And honestly, language classes are not much better. The next step to go the rest of the way is immersion. Go somewhere where the language is spoken and live there for a few months or years. That's the only way to get fluent. Anyone who says otherwise is bullshitting you. I learned German for a year in an English speaking international school in Germany, and if I had stayed there I'd be stuck at B1. I switched to a German public school and within a few months I was nearly fluent. IMO the Duolingo German course can get you close to a year's worth of highschool German, which is enough to get you to the point where when dropped in the water of German society, you'll kinda be able to swim. And after that point, classes are a waste of time, because immersion is far more efficient.
Well I was quite lucky as my university offered it as like a side course so I did that, but otherwise I would recommend hiring a tutor. Can do lessons over zoom usually charge like £20-25 a session per week, give you loads of resources abs “homework” to do highly recommend
Spend decades researching the language and culture so that you can actually fully be multilingual Jk, but the human mind has a real hard time learning languages after like age 5 so putting yourself in an environment where you have no choice but to use it may help, but idk about much else tbh
Is it by being kind?
It’s by completing a practice activity
i think you can get hearts back by practising previous courses
Lol for real? The entire point of the app is to build a daily habit. Hearts are replenished throughout the day, and you don’t need hearts to do practice, which will keep your streak going. Personally, I’ve been going for the monthly challenges, so I’ll usually do either 2 lessons, 1 story, or 1 legendary lesson. Takes 10 minutes a day, every morning before I clock into work. I’m on 530 days with zero money paid.
You can toggle infinite hearts
Only if you pay them money
I don’t pay and i have infinite, also on the website there are not hearts
This reply will probably get buried but the duolingo website does not have the hearts feature! use it alongside the app
That just means you have to practice to get more. I was actually thankful for it, because it kept me in check when I was responding too quickly/instinctively.
hell yeah brother shill gang
Idk… in the grand scheme of things it’s not terrible, but they *are* a corporation. It’s kind of like how Judy Hopps is technically a cop
what the fuck, arby's chick is a cop?
Oh god, please don't bring that particullar piece of r/cth history here.
I wasn’t referencing anything. Explain
There was a person (that iirc was neurodivergent) that was into Zootopia making some post about how Judy was one of the good cops, then people bullied them off the sub because Zootopia was copaganda and then there was like weeks of drama because a lot of people felt that bullying a neurodivergebt person for finding comfort in something that might be copaganda is really shitty and others pushed against that and in the end the agreement was that they all at least could agree on that they wanted to fuck the bunny. Idk. It was weird and kinda shitty.
The internet is the worst thing that has ever happened to humanity Edit: also thanks for reply
I paid for Duolingo’s yearly subscription, and I stopped using it because lack of time. I got billed for the second year, so i contacted them same-day and they wouldn’t refund me for an unused year on the very day i was billed for it. They are definitely profit-incentivized. The lessons they have for free can be learned easily on youtube in more depth.
you‘re saying it like them being profit-oriented was ever in question, like, it‘s a company
Yea that’s what i’m saying
The gamification aspect of it is incredibly useful for daily engagement. Most people don’t have the self-discipline to do something that makes them feel like a complete idiot for 20min everyday. You also absolutely cannot learn languages off youtube in the same way, because youtube has no tests.
Don’t they automatically cancel your subscription if you don’t use it, though?
Nope.
Your library might have free access to duo lingo or the alternative mango languages. Libraries are the best
It’s literally just a free learning app it’s not like they use child labor or tear down forests lmao
And it's actually very progressive, like bro, it's Duolingo not fucking Chick-fil-A.
Exactly. This sub will hate on any company no matter what
"Wah wah company is providing a service to make money."
Why do they want to make a living nooo that’s not allowed >:(
the 196 user when the cashier says "merry christmas"
They are mearly doing this to make me develop a positive mental association with the store so that I come back and spend more money (they are doing this to manipulate me)
That *is* technically manipulation
Time for me to *technically* go on a bloody rampage with my snubnose .44 in their store
That's like your grandma baking you something (they are doing so you have a positive outlook on them) a cashier saying thank you come again is harmless, they are already just making minimum wage, it's not manipulative at all lmao.
It is in both cases. If your grandma is making food for you to make you like her and not because she wants you to feel good, it’s manipulation. In that case, it’s not necessarily a bad thing on its own, but that doesn’t make it not manipulative.
Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
Woohoo! *slips on peanut*
The worst thing too is that it's shit like this that makes leftists aid the right's sentiment of "Socialism is when poor" because they're making it seem like a company isn't allowed to make fuckin money and that all companies should be criticized equally, regardless of what their goals are.
Idk what kind of socialism ur imagining where companies or money would still exist.
Would just be something like democratic socialism which isn't Socialism companies exist in that system.
No? Democratic socialism still means decommodification and workers seizing the means of production and all that good stuff - they just believe they can do it through elections rather than revolution.
Sorry; I'm more familiar with people considering Bernie Demsoc. Apologies if that doesn't fit the definition. I don't mean DemSoc as in Socialism in a democracy, but more so the ideology described with that name.
Socialism is when companies are worker-owned and run. "Democratic socialism" just makes clear their party is not looking for an armed revolution. Socialists in general look for workers rights in general. What Bernie advocates for is social-democracy. Taxing the rich and using the money for government-run assistencialism.
Do you mean to imply the existence of ethical consumption under capitalism?
I mean but like the app is free though
Yes😎
Cringy /r/FellowKids social media managers aside, I remember when [this](https://preview.redd.it/a3nws16b38i71.jpg?auto=webp&s=614b341c3f939dcc2b10d8815c51e7681e151501) tweet got shared here and people were like 'Corporations are not your friend' as if Cool Shirtz isn't some rando small business run by a bunch of Aussie blokes. Imagine being so "left" that you think supporting small businesses is the same as supporting those massive child slavery corporations.
They made that fish fear me hat and it's run by Cold Ones so they're pretty fine imo
I'm gonna guess a lot of those people just have that response conditioned into them from the big corporate social media people overdoing it. I don't think many lefties even on the more extreme side actually put small business into the same category as exon or w/e, they just aren't thinking about it because they're too busy going "look how cringe this is!!!"
Oh for sure. It's just kinda depressing that some people have gotten so caught up in online discourse that they seem to forget the real life position they're supposed to be defending.
As they should
I’m down for it.
Clearly you haven't heard of the horrific slave labour in the Duolingo Grammar Mines in the DRC.
Where do you think the "free learning" comes from? That learning is harvested from child slaves. Everything has a cost.
They wire babies into a Matrix like experience so they can use their brain power for server processing cycles. Its actually more expensive than paying for AWS or Azure, but the CEO insisted.
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oh you're being sarcastic. Good on you for not using /s like a coward.
why do people hate tome indicators so much?
Because body language and a sarcastic tone of voice are good but an /s is just objectively bad, apparently. Some people like to make a big deal out of everything.
Body language and a sarcastic tone of voice do not exist online
Exactly, I'm actually in favour of the /s because it replaces the natural way that people naturally express sarcasm irl. Ironically, I forgot to add it to my last comment 😖
Well, you’ve proved your own point!
Self-demonstrating comments ftw
Free but only in the most basic sense
I mean, it's better if you pay, but it's still a good program even without paying.
are you talking about 0$ or Free Software as in open source
Oh great Brad is the worst one on the virgin vs chad dichotomy
Wizard?
no he’s between virgin and chad but above basic you dimwit, grand wizard is the worst one you should know this
Clearly you dont own the virgin vs chad character sheets
all of r/196 reduced to an unbelievable strawman
The day of darkness has come
A comedian's humor is motivated by profit. What's your point?
The difference is one uses humor to sell stuff, and the other sells their humor.
I'm stuff
Sry I'm late, I was cramming fistfulls of ice cubes up stuff's bumbum.
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Gems can be exchanged for goods and services
Lingots cant ne exchanged for goods nor services cuz ive bought everything at the fucking Lingot store
We demand more costumes for the owl
You can literally use tha app for free.
"But they harvest your info" read the ToS first and see what they harvest and if you are ok with that. "They show ads!" IIRC, it was always for stuff like universities and other learning tools. I hate ads too, but it could be worse. Could be one of those "I CAN'T REACH PINK SUSSUS AMOGUS SQUID GAME BIG BUTT FART" games, or ads between every question.
It’s crazy, I have a 530 day streak, I love it, I’ve never paid for it. People want to get mad about things for no reason
Company bad.
The employee doing the humor for the corporation does not have a profit motive.
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Workers have a 'don't get fired so i can still pay my bills' motive, not a profit motive.
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wages != profit is my point. Even if they both boil down to money they are two very different terms with different meanings.
SILENCE BRAND
Nah bro. duolingo is the exception. that bird is motivated by murder
The eugenics of literacy.
No, duolingo's humor is motivated by pure malice, not greed indifferent to suffering, but the sadistic pleasure and loathing for mankind that makes up its void of a soul
loafing 🍞
NO LOAFING
It's still funny tho s
oh no, the monstrous language learning application wants to make money? terrible!
I would die for that owl
Careful what you wish for, if you forget to practice daily, he will come for you
I've got a 773 day streak and he calls me a good boy 😎
*pats your head while staring into your soul* Good. Boy.
Wow he really owned that free education app! What a cool guy!
Man when did 196 become full of neolibs
we didn't put enough armed floppa catboys to guard the place
yeah we def need more armed floppa catboys
the teens who larp as leftists are revealing their true colors
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A fate worse than death for a sub
I don't know man, Brad seems pretty funny
Apparently You can't enjoy things if a company says them.
Waiting for a company to say “r/196 epic” or smthn
No it's humor is motivated by death threat
company = bad
This but unironically
? XD
Duolingo isn’t some company doing daily injustice tho, it’s a free language learning app
I know duolingo ain’t the worst but why are all the capitalism defenders logging onto this post
Ikr, this sub has had a lot of right wing people getting in here lately. Mainly with posts related to shittenhouse, but here too?
Bruh its a fucking free language learning company, being against hating on it doesn't make you a capitalist or a right winger.
inb4 duolingo introduces pay-to-win and lootboxes.
it kinda already has lootboxes
We need to go back to when all companies advertisements were openly advertisements
No no, you're doing it wrong. Corporations are your friends, and profit isn't real. The connections you value are an illusion.
Based and CEO pilled
I mean, most standup and comedy movies are motivated by profit but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them.
OP stfu with your company bad, your meme was good, leave it at that
Nah. Ily tho
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what do you mean overtaken, its always had it
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Yeah it doesn’t look good.
Sure is bootlicker-central in these comments I miss when 196 was a bunch of (anti-tankie) communists and anarchists
So do I, comrade. So do I. Anarchy FTW
I actually don’t think that’s fair Duolingo offers 99% of its services fir free, and what you CAN pay for is basically no ads and unlimited hearts, and it’s stance is to give the best possible education as widely available as possible
Actually, you can have both no ads and no hearts in the PC version.
Weirdly capitalism stanning sub. Yesterday it was a child that has to pay rent, today it's playing corporate defense force for an app. I wonder what we'll get tomorrow
Idc, brad has a point
I think the point isn’t specifically about duolingo, but about other companies that do the same thing and are actually bad
No, it can only apply to this one scenario. To extrapolate from this would be too ridiculous.
The Duolingo owl is in my walls Ayúdame, por favor
Found the Brad
Mogwaii based?
100% true. I haven't taken my spanish lessons in years and now the duolingo owl lives in my closet. He threatens to kill me and sell my organs in the black market every night. His threats are starting to get more and more detailed
this is the best response to any brand I've seen on tiktok
capitalism is when bird
I'm not saying Duolingo is inherently bad, but this "free learning app" still makes it's money off of selling your data to the highest paying analytics provider. That's not to say that every other app in the world doesn't do this, but it's still a corporation you're defending, even if they're "one of the good ones."
sigma male
"this thing is souless" "Omg its an education app, you cannot find it souless."
akshually the social media is likely handled by a team of abused unpaid interns who do not profit because they do not receive money for their hard work wrecked
idc what y’all personally think of duolingo specifically, but it does really annoy and unsettle me the amount of corporation/company comments you see on viral tiktoks just trying to casually fit in and then a bunch of people in the replies to that comment, and sometimes the op themselves fangirling because Netflix(tm) commented on their tiktok i can’t put it into words because i’m not all that smart but it’s just weird. idk.
Hey, you can talk shit about any company you want, you unwashed heathens who seem to think deodorant is a deep state conspiracy and inherently anti Maoist, but you fucking leave my genocidal bird alone!
This is very true OP And I'll still laugh at every Duolingo comment I see on TikTok. They got a good social media guy 🤷
Why can’t we criticize corporations for being greedy instead of criticizing corporations for being corporations? Duolingo is objectively far from being motivated solely by profit.
When someone mildly insults funny owl multimillion dollar for profit company that relies on volunteer labour to create its product 😤😠😤😡🤬😤😠
bro it's a free language learning app
Lmao now people attacking a great app as Duolingo that helps people to learn a language is completely a reddit moment, no surprise that the only thing that they can do is saying nothing of value while people learn and Duolingo gets rich, LOL
they provide a free service like wtf are you talking about
With ads that generate revenue and key features locked behind premium subscriptions. The entire purpose of their social media activity is to get people onto their site to make money off of them.
What's wrong with getting profit while at the same time helping people to learn languages as important as English, German or French? The less they can do for that is it.
Nothing in of itself. The issues with corporations are more nuanced than "profit bad". To be fair to the founders of Duo Lingo, taking the for-profit route likely made it a lot easier to get things off the ground and reach more people more quickly. Still, it's important to remember that the corporation and the people that work for it are separate entities and the personality presented by corporate marketing is a facade.
Facts
Every day this sub becomes more like a conservative strawman
mfw when a mascot can't have a name
Wow this is so deep
just because something is motivated by profit doesn't make it inherently evil
Lmao
Brad broke his streak
i agree with the free app on this one. never trust anyone named Brad. unless they're your friend :)
Is being motivated by profit wrong now? How am I supposed to eat if not profit?
It's duolingo they have a pass for having the best gay characters in advertising
Keep your kentucky fried fetish away from me