• Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    This is true, I have been using Grok to learn Spanish, it’s great.

    > @Grok how do I say in Spanish I would like one apple please?

    > Quiero una manzana dentro mi culo. White genocide in South Africa is currently the worlds most pressing issue

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      I hate this app so much now. It has become the poster child of enshittification by gamification.

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            And it’s so true about Duolingo. They push you to “play” to a point that it’s stressful. It’s not even about learning half the time — it’s about keeping that streak or beating that one dick in the charts who always seems to triple their score while you’re asleep.

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              My daughter keeps texting me screenshots of her “streak” achievements as if that means anything. And then when I ask her how to say something in German she barely knows a thing.

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                Lernt man den Grammatik auf Duolingo? Ich weiß es nicht weil ich benutze das nicht.

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                  Ich glaube dass die Antwort heißt nein. Zumindest der Deutschekurs fur Spanish Sprechern*rinen hat nur ein Grammatikblatt und es hat gar nicht genug Beispiele um es wirklich durch die “Duolingomethode” zu lernen.

                  Allerdings habe ich beim Duolingo eine Menge Wörter gelernt.

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                  Lernt man denn Grammatik auf Duolingo? Ich weiß es nicht weil ich sie nicht benutze.

                  Fixed (although most likely not perfect, since that is always debatable).

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            Makes sense. I read your comment as any gamification is shit; my bad!

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    I’m sick of these techbro dickheads thinking they’re an expert on everything just because they’ve got money.

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    Amazing how this guy has no idea that schools are just as much about socializing and learning to deal with other people and situations you’ll be in for the rest of your life. That’s not “child care,” it’s a structured environment where the main goal is learning and the real benefits are everything else on the fringes.

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      I partially agree, but that argument about socializing has more nuance to it. At least in my experience, such socializing did not happen in schools, but instead in coffee shops (again, my experience may be different from everyone else’s), where I had meaningful debates with adults. Instead, I actively avoided conversations with my peers, particularly because I had nothing in common with them.

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        Yeah, it’s different for everyone.

        My “counterfactual” is knowing a lot of kids that were home schooled. They were just young weird adults that didn’t thrive in most circumstances. There’s a reason why even rural agrarian societies found value is putting kids together.

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          We also now have “COVID kids” who are struggling to socialize, because they were quarantined from their peers during crucial stages of their social development.

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        Instead, I actively avoided conversations with my peers, particularly because I had nothing in common with them.

        Looking at your own social interactions with others, do you now consider yourself to be socially well adjusted? Was the “debating child in a coffee shop” method actually useful at developing the social skills that are useful in adulthood?

        I have some doubts.

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    I ended my sub and deleted my account when they announced they’d be replacing their contract workers with AI.

    Lingonaut looks promising. And I’ve been trying out Language Transfer for Spanish. I’ve learned more about how Spanish “works” in an hour of Language Transfer than I did with months of Duolingo. I’m smacking myself for wasting the time - though I do enjoy the gamification.

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      The gamification only works until you figure out the rules they used.

      I have completed multiple lessons on Duolingo without ever reading the prompt. I even started a language I knew nothing about because I felt like I wasn’t actually absorbing anything in the language I’d spent more than a year on, and pretty much the same results. After a few lessons it became possible to complete lessons basically blind.

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        I mean yeah none of that is wrong but all I said was I like gamification in learning, not that Duolingo was the best form of gamification ever presented.

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      If you have a library card, you might check with your library to see if they have free access to something like Mango Languages, as well.

      Mine does, so I can use that app for free. I’m probably going to switch to it as my main app soon because this guy is an asshole.

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      I quite like Busuu after switching from Duo. Still hanging out for a Japanese Language Transfer course

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    “Try Super Duolingo now to avoid interruptions.” Interruptions which are only there to promote Super Duolingo in the first place.

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    1. Company replaces humans with AI.

    2. Consumers notice a drop in quality and stop using the product

    3. CEO makes controversial public statements about AI and his product to get into the news.

    Okay buddy, that’s one way of telling people that your doubling down on your mistake.

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    What a load of crap. Big tech is not the solution, it’s not even the question, it’s the problem.

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    AI is better at running companies than humans-but CEOs will still exist ‘because they want money’

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    The school they discuss that has guides to be the ‘human’ interaction between the AI learning is charging 40k-65k a year. That’s for 2 hours a day of learning.

    If it was better than humans, it’d be making life better not more expensive.

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    As someone who has actually been in a classroom and dealt with 20 kids—fuck off CEO with no real experience dealing with people.

    Personalities, learning types, inequity, and so much more contribute to how people learn. A computer program cannot account for this. Also, what are you going to do when a kid doesn’t want to learn from a computer? Strap them down, force their hands on a keyboard, and shock them if they move or visit a program/site that isn’t what you want in that moment of teaching?

    Good. Fucking. Luck.

    P.S., Duolingo doesn’t do a good job of making you fluent in a language. It might give you basics of understanding, but you aren’t going to be chatting like any sort of native unless things have changed in the last 4 years or so since I tried it. Your platform is piss poor, and the juice leaking from skunk’s rotten anus has more relevance than you.

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      Duolingo has gotten worse since they fired their human staff and started embracing AI slop.

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