• marcos@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        Ironically, “tanker” was a slang created by the not-as-communist people, like the Chinese, to criticize the soviets.

        They really didn’t imagine who would perfect the practice.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      I always smuggled a book in to auditorium bullshit, even though the lights were usually dim and it was hard to read. Fuck that noise.

  • Blackout@fedia.io
    12·
    3 months ago

    I got tired of the app cause once you hit a certain difficulty you have to pay. Their teaching notes are far from complete so the only way to learn is to make mistakes and then your 5 chances are up. Totally demotivated me.

    • FrederikNJS@lemm.ee
      7·
      3 months ago

      Yeah, it demotivated me too with the limited lives… If you still want Duolingo, I can mention that it has regional pricing, so you only need a VPN server in India to get it much much cheaper.

      But it’s understandable if you don’t want to support those kinds of business practices in any way.

      • Blackout@fedia.io
        3·
        3 months ago

        I switched to YouTube and innerfrench podcast. I like the format much better than language apps for now.

  • Venicone@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    Used to pay for Duolingo but find their choice of phrases and style to be counter intuitive for me. Rarely do they impress the why or give any type of background. I switched to Spanishdict and bought premium after been impressed with it because the software offers much more.

    However learning Portuguese at same time now so spun up Duo for that so the owl can harass me some more.