Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI
Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI
The popular language-learning program Duolingo cut 10 percent of its contracted translators last month amid a generative AI push.
Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI.
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I never liked Duolingo anyway. It's a bit stupid, it just teaches you some basic phrases without explaining the grammar behind it. So you're not really learning anything.
And I really hate 'gamification' in general. I love computer games but not gamified learning or exercising etc. It just puts me off.
I actually had it the other way around, I wanted to learn to understand and speak Spanish a lot better. My wife is half Spanish and her family speaks zero English. Anyway started to learn with Duolingo and my Spanish did improve. But after a while I got to a point where most of the mistakes I made where spelling errors. I don't care how to spell in Spanish, I'm not going to write them, I just want to understand it and be able to respond. There is no option (afaik) to just learn the meaning of the words.
Learning Spanish as well via Duolingo, but I feel like it's slowing down and based on this post, looking at alternatives. Have you found one that works better?
Duolingo does have grammar lessons, they cover the parts of speech, rules, exceptions and interesting notes.
You actually have to click the grammar notes for each lesson, and many people skip it. Still it's up the user, not sure why this myth persists.
I'm studying a couple of languages that don't have English as the native tongue. They provide no grammar notes.
The ones with native English do, but accessing it is not intuitive since you have to go to the Units view.