@schizoidman@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoDuolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNotetechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: news@beehaw.org
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minus-square@Sagittarii@lemm.eelinkfedilink13•1 year agoShould use HelloChinese instead tbh. Duolingo is more like a game than a language learning app.
minus-square@MeowZedong@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoSeconded. HelloChinese is so much better at teaching than Duolingo and it scratches the same game-like itch.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆linkfedilink8•1 year agothis is the best app I’ve found https://www.superchinese.com/
minus-square@Kacarott@aussie.zonelinkfedilink6•1 year agoDuolingo is good for “tourist style” language learning, where you learn some phrases, can recognise and read a few words, etc, but next to no chance of actually pulling off a proper conversation with a local.
Should use HelloChinese instead tbh. Duolingo is more like a game than a language learning app.
Seconded. HelloChinese is so much better at teaching than Duolingo and it scratches the same game-like itch.
this is the best app I’ve found https://www.superchinese.com/
Duolingo is good for “tourist style” language learning, where you learn some phrases, can recognise and read a few words, etc, but next to no chance of actually pulling off a proper conversation with a local.