by Javantea
March 18, 2025
Duolingo has a lot of problems. I know this because I've spent 1232 days learning Portuguese, Spanish, and a little bit of Finnish and Klingon. I have a 1232 day streak and am in obsidian league. I'm hoping that the developers at Duolingo who are watching for negative sentiment find this post. Here's my duome if you want to see where I'm at.
Duolingo is for beginners. If you end up at day 400 in Duolingo, you might think that it is useful for intermediate and advanced speakers. This isn't true. The only argument that I have really accepted for why intermediate learners should accept Duolingo as a daily tool is that it's important to avoid losing ground in a language. By spending a few minutes you're able to avoid dramatic loss of vocabulary that often coincides with not using a language for weeks.
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Hoy discutimos un event muy recente -- guerra en Siria.
The audio is created with Google Text-to-Speech in Android for free using the spanish (Spain) voice. The script was written by various authors around the world and given to Wikipedia, where I got it on Dec 10, 2024.
This is bound to come up again as geopolitics is starting to become rather chaotic. I'm not saying anything about this event because I still have no understanding of it. That is why these paragraphs are here.
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Hoy discutimos una palabra de la internet. Un latino interesante de Argentina usa la palabra creyeron hoy (July 14, 2024) en redes sociales.
The audio is created with Google Text-to-Speech in Android for free using the spanish (Spain) voice. The script was written by various authors around the world and given to Wikipedia, where I got it on July 14, 2024.
More philosophy? No, no. This is definitely not philosophy, something totally different.
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Hoy discutimos tiempo extremo.
The audio is created with Google Text-to-Speech in Android for free using the spanish (Spain) voice. The script was written by various authors around the world and given to Wikipedia, where I got it on July 7, 2024.
For more information, consider reading Huracán Beryl which prompted this podcast.
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