Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

All part of the plan.... er sorry 都是计划的一部分

I'm highly suspicious of Rednote. It came out of nowhere with a sudden, massive surge in downloads, so tiktok users assume that's where refugees are flocking.

I wounder if tik tok gave trump a million what will happen.

imagine being THIS attached to brain rot apps

People are fucking stupid. I don't think there's any point in banning TikTok but they're not wrong when they say it pushes Chinese propaganda and they're probably not wrong when they say that they're using it to spy on people.

So angry TikTok users want to make that worse for themselves out of spite?

Idiots.

If you want to learn a language, Duolingo is pretty much the worst way to do so. Seek out community-created resources for your target language.

Does this mean they'll finally give us lessons beyond HSK3? Because those final 6 repeating lessons are driving me absolutely insane T-T

All the women in my office said everyone is moving to Lemonade. They said, “why would we move to another Chinese app? That’s dumb.”

No idea who owns Lemonade but it was interesting to me that they were not interested at all in Rednote.

This news is brought to you by the company of China 🇨🇳

ITT: Liberals try long and failing to not be racist for one second

A 216% increase sounds impressive, but probably isn't because the starting number is very small.

Duolingo:

Jokes on you I'm using it to learn Spanish.

i knew that damn owl was going to get involved in corporate lobbying at some point

Big Language works in timescales unimaginable.

What is red note?

Digital nomads gone wrong