reminder that duolingo has never been “good” nor “efficient” for language learning. even before it nosedived into AI bs.
if you’re willing to read on the methodology, there’s a book called “how i learn languages” by kató lomb. each person has a slightly different approach suited to themself, but any working one involves various learning materials that an app doesn’t provide
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@xarvos
of course dark fedis lingua franca, japanese :p
learned more in a few weeks than with duolingo in months of daily use. their method might not work for everyone, but it certainly works very well for me.
most important: it doesn't send me guilt tripping emails that i'll lose streak or some bullshit and am a bad person for it. it's not a dark pedagogy experience like duolingo.
@bonifartius not what i asked but ok
also read this recent thing earlier today https://borretti.me/article/building-diy-clozemaster
@icedquinn @bonifartius yes that is an approach for vocabulary, but there are other aspects of a language, and there are four skills to practice (perhaps except for sign languages and rare ones that don’t have written forms, but those are not the languages listed in a language app anyways)
@icedquinn @bonifartius and also at some point, whatever your method is you’ll need to practice with a real speaker of the language
@bonifartius what do you learn your target language for? have you achieved it?