schizoidman@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 days agoDuolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNotetechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: news@beehaw.orgduolingo@sopuli.xyz
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minus-squareSagittarii@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up15·6 days agoShould use HelloChinese instead tbh. Duolingo is more like a game than a language learning app.
minus-squareMeowZedong@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 days agoSeconded. HelloChinese is so much better at teaching than Duolingo and it scratches the same game-like itch.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 days agothis is the best app I’ve found https://www.superchinese.com/
minus-squareKacarott@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 days agoDuolingo is good for “tourist style” language learning, where you learn some phrases, can recognise and read a few words, etc, but next to no chance of actually pulling off a proper conversation with a local.
Should use HelloChinese instead tbh. Duolingo is more like a game than a language learning app.
Seconded. HelloChinese is so much better at teaching than Duolingo and it scratches the same game-like itch.
this is the best app I’ve found https://www.superchinese.com/
Duolingo is good for “tourist style” language learning, where you learn some phrases, can recognise and read a few words, etc, but next to no chance of actually pulling off a proper conversation with a local.