“This restaurant is disgusting, I’m going to recommend it to my boss.”
There’s apparently research that indicates that learning absurd sentences helps language learners to learn the component words and how they work together better, rather than them just memorizing entire common sentences whole.
This is apparently why Duolingo does this stuff with absurd sentences. I’m sure the free marketing from posts like this doesn’t hurt either (no shade meant to you, just an observation).
That’s super interesting and I totally believe it!
I have a lot of issues with Duolingo and did think about the free advertising and the fact that they’ve started to use more AI—wouldn’t have taken it too personally if you had been throwing shade. While I don’t pay for it, I just don’t know an alternative I can use in the same way 😕
FMHY has some alternatives, didn’t tried any but i trust 'em https://fmhy.net/educational#language-learning
Busuu is much better than duo from my experience lately. And pimsleur is better than both. Busuu actually teaches you what’s going on, where duo just gives you words over and over again and hopes you figure out the difference. It’s been really frustrating cause duo seemed good up until like day 60 for me.
That’s a good pitch. I took French in high school so I’ve been benefitting from what I remember of grammar from that after many years without touching the subject. However I’m confident that it’d be basically useless for me if I was starting a new language from scratch.
try Busuu
Duolingo is so antiwork, they replaced their staff with AI
