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Hi, I am a linguist who studies how people learn languages. Duolingo isn't terrible, but there are better uses for your time.
Here are some reasons:
As others in this thread have pointed out, it's also much better for Western languages with the Latin alphabet. Duo started with Spanish and French, and I've heard through contacts that work there, French is their archetypal/flagship course. The computer scientist-oriented solution for expanding to other languages is to assume typological similarity between languages, which means languages that are farther from French in grammar, writing system, etc. will all be contorted to fit the shape of their system.
My suggestions for anyone looking to learn a new language:
I could literally go on for days. Happy to answer specific questions anyone has.
LLMs are okay if you already know the answer, because they don't have a basis for truth or a bias for source; they prioritize frequency of co-occurrence of words in the training data. They can produce very convincing and completely made-up text, or propagate "common wisdom" that isn't actually correct.
Using ChatGPT is pretty much the same as trusting one of the random AI-generated blogs poisoning the search results--which other people in this thread are complaining about the uselessness of.
Things I'm proud of:
Sites for improvement:
Upcoming this week:
For those going on to grad school, they would need to submit official transcripts indicating they have been awarded their degrees.