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by spunker540 411 days ago
A lot of naysayers here, and I get it’s more about the tactics and messaging more than anything else— but in defense of Duolingo (I’m not a user):

There is a good possibility that in 5 years people have moved on from Duolingo because new ai tutoring apps that can perfectly tailor content to your level and offer unlimited speaking practice sessions, may surpass Duolingo’s “old-fashioned” offering—-the same way Duolingo jumped ahead of websites, which jumped ahead of CDs and cassette tapes, which jumped ahead of books.
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jhanschoo 411 days ago
This, responding in natively fluent speech and immersion and personalized correction, is what I hope Duo is saying by saying that they are going to rely on AI. Their current system just sets people up to fail at language acquisition.
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xrdegen 411 days ago
chatGPT voice app can already talk in languages Duolingo doesn't have and will never have on their old path.

They obviously had to do this. It is already over for Duolingo. All we really need is some kind of Anki deck generator with audio and that plus the language model to have conversations with, it is over. They will look like a childish relic of the past.

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GardenLetter27 411 days ago
Grammar lessons are also critical, especially well spaced for when you need to learn them.

Ironically Duolingo removed all of that in the simplification and gameification recently.

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