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Very reasonable, don't get me wrong I used to like French and was learning it for while too.. But found the pronounciation very weird compared to written text. Actually i'd probably still be learning it now if they wouldn't cancel it's class at highschool i went to. So few (~4) years ago i picked up Spanish since i liked it, realised the pronounciation is very easy, grammar very simmilar to what I'm used to and so i went on ~250 days streak on duolingo and begun learning also from other sources... Though lately i learn it a much less just not to forget. I found the biggest issue is that i have not much people to speak to, while with English it's different story to the point I'm replacing words in Czech sentences with english words so lot that some people have issues understanding. Do you face similar issues that you cannot explain some words or phrases in one language so you just replace it with different one? I've once mixed Czech English and Spanish together and immediately felt like an idiot thinking that i'd be understood.

X·Nov 8·Open

Hi guys, anybody knows why Duolingo, in a rather advanced German stage, which never showed me a Reichstag, or Berlin Museum, or San Souci Palace, asked me to describe this? https://t.co/VlhE9ClwIJ

X·Nov 8·Open

@duolingo Idiomas Nigerianos, por favor? Or better still, Asụsụ ndị Nigeria, biko?

X·Nov 8·Open

id probably have to google translate but french kinda uses similar words to german and english sometimes like wow thé is tea is tee okay awesome. i can Probably guess some meanings from that alone. can french people learn finnish on duolingo

X·Nov 8·Open

Do you think duolingo will be mad at me?😵💫 https://t.co/edjoWYTWRq https://t.co/qibpCABdM9

X·Nov 6·Open

LMAO so what are we really doing Duolingo just say you want Lily to yourself

X·Nov 5·Open

Should I draw a Duolingo meme?

X·Nov 6·Open

Learning Korean for my girlfriend next to a full-time job: how do you learn and remember? Hi everyone! I’m French and I live in Germany. I met my girlfriend a year ago and she’s Korean, so I started learning Korean to talk with her, and maybe one day with her family too. Quick background so you know where I’m at: I can read Hangul, I’ve looked up around quite a lot of words. I study ~ 30 min a day next to my full-time job, using Duolingo and Papago, plus whatever my girlfriend explains to me. I am aiming for Topik I in a few months. The problem is that I keep forgetting words, even ones I looked up three times. So I’d love to hear how you do it: When you look up a word, what do you do right after? Save it somewhere, or let it go? How do you check that a word has really stuck and you’re not just recognising it when you see it? Sometimes I surprise myself having my motivation drop, so I was wondering what helped you keep going: a person, a goal, a streak? Duolingo works for me but it’s not enough, so I’m curious about other methods. If you could fix one thing about how you study, what would it be? I would be super happy to hear about how do you study and this hopefully will speed up my learning and I can surprise her :)

Reddit·Nov 5·Open

What are good language studying tools? Hello, I'm currently learning a language (Finnish) but I don't know where to find good studying tools/options; I use duolingo and it's given me some of the basics but I want something more organized and better for language development. Do you know where I could find some? Thanks for the help!

Reddit·Nov 2·Open

Best methods to learn German? Hey everyone, I’m currently looking for the best overall methods to learn German. I’m currently A1 so I have very little knowledge of the language. So far I have used: Duolingo, YouTube videos, DW Nico’s Weg, and tried out Anki. I’ve thought about buying the Read2Speak packages, and even going to online classes, but from what I’ve read about both of those things online, it seems unreasonable. Does anyone have any good recommendations for me/your overall favorite tools to develop proficient German skills that have worked for you?

Reddit·Nov 4·Open

@Twelve_Oh_Nine @duolingo That’s the key part. Did the app get you speaking, or did the real conversations do it?

X·Nov 8·Open

@krassenstein We should all have a go at learning other languages We need to be open to & embrace other cultures & improve mutual understanding There’re various language apps around (such as Duolingo - which many of my friends & family are on) Is there an app that teaches Critical Thinking?

X·Nov 7·Open

Offering American English | Seeking Beginner/Intermediate Mandarin I am a native English speaker in the US on the west coast. My first and only fluent language is English. I believe I have pretty solid grammar. I am happy to speak with anyone who wants to work on their English. I’ve been using Duolingo (a very limited resource) to work on Mandarin for over a year, but my vocabulary is still so limited. Anytime I try to think of things I can say to show off my progress, I draw a blank. I would love to exchange with someone who can offer me beginner level speaking practice in Mandarin, and I’m happy to speak English at any level. Not sure what’s typical in this community but I’m on all platforms, however Discord would probably be my most comfortable platform for conversations. There is always the option of playing games while talking. Comment or PM if you are interested. Thanks! Edit: A lot of people have reached out! If you would like to connect with other native mandarin speakers to practice English together, please feel free to message me directly. Edit: fixed my “solid” grammar XD

Reddit·Nov 4·Open

Offering: English | Seeking: Deutsch My name is Hale and I would like to improve my German. My limited knowledge stems from one semester of German, Duolingo (before it was buns), Falco, and Nickelodeon Deutschland on YT. Also I set my phone to German and I'll never go back to a QWERTY keyboard. (For reals, guys. I even modified my laptop keyboard. 😆) My hobbies include listening to Falco, making pirate videos on YT, geocaching, antiquing (for components to add to my pirate costume), and arts and crafts. I'll be looking forward to hear from anyone, but someone currently living in a Germanic country would be awesome because then I can learn more colloquialisms. For instance, I'd love to learn particularly Austrian dialect so I can better understand Falco. Looking forward to chatting with whoever!!

Reddit·Nov 7·Open

LSAT drills gamified? are there any apps out there that have gamified lsat drills like duolingo? i am looking at starting a 7sage membership next year when i get more serious about the study, but wasnt sure if there was a great app to grab throughout the day.

Reddit·Nov 2·Open

@Twelve_Oh_Nine @duolingo Congrats on finishing the course! Could you really hold a conversation afterwards?

X·Nov 8·Open

haven't built my app yet, but I want it to last. how do the big apps scale and build strong systems from day one? 🧠 okay so I'm in that dangerous phase where I have a big idea and zero lines of code. 😭 I keep looking at Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube (billions of users), Discord, Duolingo, Notion (millions), and even Instagram, Wordle, Slack in their early days, and I wanna understand how they actually got there and stayed standing. I'm not trying to build a billion-user system on day one. I want to make the right early decisions so I don't have to rewrite everything later. Looking for technical advice from people who've built or scaled real products. What I'm trying to learn: 🏗️ 1. Architecture \- Monolith first, then split later? Or design for services from the start? \- What decisions are painful to change later (database choice, data model, auth, multi-tenancy)? \- How do you stay flexible without over-engineering? ⚙️ 2. Scaling the system \- When do you add caching, queues, read replicas, sharding? \- How do you handle a huge number of users online at the same time? \- How do you prevent one failure from taking down everything? 🧮 3. The "strong algorithm" part \- Big apps have feed ranking, recommendations, search, matching. How do you start with something simple (chronological, basic heuristics) and evolve toward ML-driven systems? \- What data should I be collecting from day one so I can build good algorithms later? \- How do you A/B test and iterate on ranking safely? 📈 4. Growth + retention \- What's the tech side of getting users and keeping them (fast load times, notifications, analytics, experimentation)? \- Which metrics should I track from the start? 🛠️ 5. Long-term sustainability \- Observability, testing, CI/CD, and cost control: what do people wish they'd set up earlier? \- How do you avoid tech debt that kills you at 100k users? Where I'm at: pre-build, still picking a stack. Open to advice on that too. Questions for the experienced folks: 1. If you were starting from scratch today, what would you do differently? 2. What's the most common mistake early-stage teams make when thinking about scale? 3. What books, engineering blogs, or talks shaped how you think about this? (Discord, Instagram, and Notion engineering blogs have been great so far) 4. What should a solo dev or tiny team focus on first? war stories welcome, the more it hurt the more I wanna hear it. 🫡

Reddit·Nov 4·Open

@knic_toons @grok Is this image actually from duolingo?

X·Nov 6·Open

@Sir_Nobody1 It has something to do with Duolingo?

X·Nov 1·Open

Will doing music on @duolingo help me be a better DJ? Probably not. 😅 https://t.co/KhbbBV2xBf

X·Nov 8·Open