Is it just me or does the Duolingo bird looks sad/old/tired? What happened to the previous icon?
Como hispanohablante nativo, le están dando un cortocircuito a mi cerebro, pierdo mi sentido de la orientación en la internet, derrepente ya no se si estoy en feddit.cl (chile) o en el resto de lemmy.
😵💫😵💫😵💫
It is somewhat estrange but definitely understandable, for me, one of the best ways i had to get better at English was to join and be active in English-speaking communities, so probably the same can work with you.
idk what’s “kia ora” tough, is a NZ native thing?
El idioma es como un músculo, nunca serás bueno si no lo practicas, apóyate de un motor de traducción si así lo prefieres, pero no llegaras mágicamente o solo con teoría a un buen nivel sin empezar ahora.
Gracias por esto. Sí, claro, eres cierta!! Soy viejo y mi cabeza no es buena aprender ahora - soy demasiado veijo tiener “músculos idioma” grandes ahora, es verdad! Pero yo estudio para divertido, y intento. Gracias para hables conmigo!
(To be honest I am very surprised at how much I have learned from Duolingo!)
Un gusto.
New Zealand
frowns
Nuevo Zelando.
¿? Es Nueva Zelanda, femenina
LOL I’m pretty sure they were joking with you by being hyper-specific. :P Kia ora and awesome job with your learning! :)
Jaja a mí también, es muy inusual ver a otro hispanohablante fuera de feddit.cl o eslemmy.es
They got you talking about Duolingo. That’s why they changed it.
It’s freaking tired of reminding everyone to practice, yet very few people do it regularly
They recently added some unlockable graphics for the widget. Nothing major.
Guess they changed the icon just for the hell of it while they were at it.
He’s old for an owl…
It’s my fault, y’all. I’m sorry.
I recently started using Duolingo to learn Spanish, and it’s clinically proven I ruin everything I touch, so I think I’m killing the bird…
Can you do the whole world a favour and go to the Kremlin?
Oh, I thought it’s because I stopped opening it daily and broke my streaks lol
I’ve been opening it daily and I thought duo was just tired of my bad Japanese…
They change it all the time for funsies
Just checked and the last update for Android was on April 3rd. I can’t confirm it but I think this happened.after the first.
He’s just old.
“You mean he’s getting old!?” -Matt, Eddsworld Zanta Claws III
Duolingo became old cuz everyone forgot about them. Tragic ;-;
They change their icon all the time for laughs along with making amusing videos that exploit the memes
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Duolingo keeps doing mass layoffs, so the bird is overworked. You can help him out by switching to a language learning app that actually helps you learn a language instead of endlessly throwing flash cards at you without teaching you anything! Win win.
But I like to see my streak go up🚀🚀🚀
I’ve been working on my Spanish with practice from some of my coworkers and patients. So far Duolingo’s “flash cards” have actually been pretty helpful, but I grant that some of the actual "instruction"isn’t there. I went from really rudimentary Spanish to being able to conduct a patient evaluation in Spanish as long as it’s straight forward.
Everyone shits on Duo but I’ve found it to be a really helpful practice tool myself.
Anything is better than nothing. This is true. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t wasting your time on something that does the bare minimum.
What app do you recommend? I’ve seen good progress with duolingo since I upgraded to premium but I’m willing to try something different
Busuu is much better. It feels like it actually tries to teach you the language in an efficient way, instead of teaching you useless phrases like “my owl never paints” and waisting your time
I mean Duolingo does not teach you to memorize that phrase. It teaches you the structure of the language and words so you can start making phrases on your own
Edit: didn’t mean to sound to dismissive, I’ll give it a try, thanks for the recommendation
I would also recommend getting a textbook and using a flash card program like anki to memorize words. Apps like that have an incentive to keep you from ever getting good enough at the language that you might stop using the app. They can be a good tool but they won’t get you where you want to be on their own, especially not in a time efficient manner.
Absolutely wild thing to say. The time it takes for someone to learn a language enough to delete an app, especially an adult is so astronomical that there’s no reason for apps to try and stop you from learning the language.
I really wouldn’t describe a few years as astronomical. And that’s how long it takes to actually learn a language. You might delete the app a few months into it and switch to other methods if you were actually progressing quickly. The longer you stay on the app, the better chance they have of tricking you into spending money on it. I’m definitely not the first person to notice this. People have been talking about it for years.
Language Transfer has been highly recommended in the past. I’ve only gotten through two lessons so far, but it seems like a good place to start, at least. It doesn’t have anywhere near as many languages as Duolingo does, though.
