please learn languages a new way cuz this is just foul - ThreadSky

zoetreez.bsky.social • 155 days ago

please learn languages a new way cuz this is just foul

In between bites of al pastor tacos and sips of a margarita, Duolingo billionaire Luis von Ahn talks about how AI will make some jobs disappear.

“It’s a tough situation that'll affect the poor, the less educated. And not just in the U.S., but in poor countries.”

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mike-craney.com•155 days ago

But the owl's tiktoks/

nhl88.bsky.social•155 days ago

Very curious to see the Vann diagram overlap of “Yeah, AI is going to cause some people to lose their jobs” with “We can’t do single payer healthcare because think of all the poor people who would lose their job at the insurance companies”

red-clad-vlad.bsky.social•155 days ago

Duolingo is absolute garbage for anything beyond surface level phrase learning

shuchancellor.online•155 days ago

I love that the duolingo guy is a comprador that's totally based and not at all fasciste (Germans hiding in Latin America, very not sus at all)

kybrarian.bsky.social•155 days ago

Many libraries have a subscription to sites like Transparent Language that lets you access them for free with your library card.

https://www.transparent.com/

anyaphenix.bsky.social•155 days ago

Quickest uninstall ever.

drsaddison.bsky.social•155 days ago

Yeah, wow. Bye bye two years of French (broke my streak 3 years ago and never went back but I kept thinking I would).

blahpers.bsky.social•155 days ago

Been desperately barking up the "non-AI alternatives to Duolingo" tree for like a year or so (ever since they announced their AI pivot)

espiritrompa.bsky.social•155 days ago

There are dozens of human language tutors who can be hired for online classes. If you can afford that, it's a much better alternative.

lorifontanes.bsky.social•155 days ago

D’accord!

darklydreaming.bsky.social•155 days ago

Busuu has my recommendation

billhayden65.bsky.social•155 days ago

I shouldn't worry. Unless you're a half-arsed journalist or a wanker techbro, AI won't replace you.

crackedlemonade.bsky.social•155 days ago

Duolingo about to become unusable 🤦🏿‍♂️

supersaiga.bsky.social•155 days ago

only if you pay 😂

karie.kariekolibri.com•155 days ago

I adore WaniKani for learning Japanese vocabulary but I need something similar for learning grammar, which is absolutely something that apps like Duolingo explicitly Do Not Teach You

japanesetalk.bsky.social•154 days ago

Have you tried Bunpro?
https://bsky.app/profile/japanesetalk.bsky.social/post/3l4wnqci6sm2v

falcc.bsky.social•93 days ago

How did I miss this dude's extremely Germans-escaping-the-Allies-in-South-America name? No wonder he loves AI.

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