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"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)

submitted 10 months ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’ve got a subscription, I share it with my wife and a couple friends.

I like that it keeps me practicing daily, but I’m not really getting better very quickly, it’s just nice to keep French vocabulary in my active memory and it helps using my brain in the morning to wake up.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I did a good three-quarters of the French course too. I distinctly remember the lessons about plays and stage work being an absolute bastard, not that I'd ever use it in my line of work.

I've started watching a bit more French media with the French equivalent of "received pronunciation" - such as watching the FR edition of Euronews or France24, plus watching kids shows like Hey Duggee or Paw Patrol is unusually handy, though it does give you some funny looks if you don't already have kids!

Unfortunately, there's no substitute for immersion - even on a short break to Paris, my confidence in using the language shot up from being able to just about converse in the language - but more importantly, getting utterly stuck and failing at something where you have to think a bit faster and get your point across anyway.

I should get back into it really.