PSA: Break Your New York Times Games Streak Today. - eviltoast

The Times Tech Guild is on strike, and asks players not to play the Times’ games

      • Master167@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        A 2 year streak on Duolingo did nothing for my ability to communicate with a new language in a new country.

        Very fast uninstall after that trip.

        • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemmings.world
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          It’s garbage for learning a language but it’s phenomenal for memorizing and gameifying learning nouns and verbs. I’ve been going through the Japanese lessons one jump at a time and it’s been great to brush up on all the words I’ve forgotten.

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            Yeah, half-heartedly doing French in Duolingo for a few years meant that I knew a bunch of words and could read stuff okay, but communicating and thinking in French was incredibly difficult. I took a couple of classes IRL to fill in those other skills, so now I can actually get by as long as people are a bit patient with me. It was easier for me to learn that stuff than other people in my classes because I had Duolingo experience, but Duolingo definitely isn’t enough on its own.