Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄

nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is the actual point of a streak?

  A sense of pride and accomplishment?

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At one point it was gamification to tie the reward center of your brain into continuing to train using the app. Now it seems that it’s half that or half en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern to get you to pay to keep that reward system going.

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  • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To make you addicted so you keep coming back

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  • percent@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Personally, my interest in language learning comes and goes. Doing the minimum to maintain a streak prevents me from forgetting too much before my interest returns.

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  • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gamification including social aspects if you’re a regular app user.

    Abusive ex if you aren’t a regular user.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I fucking hate the gamification they did to Khan Academy. Just give me the knowledge map back.

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  • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sense of achievement mainly

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• musubibreakfast@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does she actually speak the language she’s learning?

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not even a little

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Donde, está, la biblioteca. Me llamo T-Bone La araña discoteca. Discoteca, muñeca, La biblioteca Está en bigotes grandes, el perro, manteca. Manteca, bigotes, gigante, pequeño, la cabeza es nieve, cerveza es bueno. Buenos dias, me gusta papas frías, los bigotes de la cabra Es Cameron Diaz.

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      • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        El tren de la Magdela al a una

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• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Having heard very mixed things about Duolingo’s actual usefulness, does your wife speak or write well in any of the languages she’s used the app to learn?

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not at all

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My friend learn japanese and able to speak fluently after using the app. Though she does have japanese customer from time to time that she can test it with some of them.

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