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 🙄

hark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  that actually helped me remember that my target language exists, it was good for me to at least have a brush with some learning on the days that i just didn’t feel like doing much.

  what was the final nail on the coffin for me was duolingo neutering the japanese course, they delayed introducing kanji so hard i was seeing the most basic basics like 母, 父, 語, even 何 in hiragana, which made the course deeply counterproductive as reading japanese in hiragana only, when you know the kanji already slows you down considerably. consider: ははははなをもっています vs 母は花を持っています, both mean “my mum has a flower” but one of them has a string of は you need to decipher the meaning of first before you can understand the sentence, the other’s meaning can be understood instantly

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a shame. Duolingo was never great for learning kana, so I guess they thought to use it more in lessons, but they should’ve just improved the dedicated kana lessons instead. I had learned kana before using duolingo so it was a smooth transition to take on sentences introducing more and more kanji. It sucks that they’re just making things worse since there were some nice things about the app before.

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• ledge@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same thing happened to me. Also when trying something new, failing took something like gems or hearts. That made it so I only grinded the very easy lessons to get the gems and never actually using them.

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, that’s another thing! They made it tedious to make progress, probably in an attempt to squeeze out more money, but I ended up just losing motivation for actually learning because it became a drag.

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• quoll@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  if a non shit app would add an “import streak” feature (just make me upload a screenshot or type in the number) id switch in a heart beat.

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  • Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why is a streak so important?

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    • walktheplank@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dopamine

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve come to realize that Dopamine is the reason for EVERYTHING.

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    • quoll@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      bc ive been at it for over 3.5 years youtube.com/shorts/b4C8yeQ1NCM

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