Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote
Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote
TikTok U.S. users have been learning Chinese on Duolingo in increasing numbers amid their adoption of a Chinese social app called RedNote ahead of the
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52721306
imagine being THIS attached to brain rot apps
That’s what happens when you have some of the best user experience people and engineers in the world specifically designing for addiction. Facebook is no different, but their most successful demographic is. My grandma is hopelessly addicted to scrolling FB reels and my fiancé is hopelessly addicted to scrolling IG stories. Different target demographic, same goals
A point for irony, NGL. ⬆️
If you want to learn a language, Duolingo is pretty much the worst way to do so. Seek out community-created resources for your target language.
It depends on the language tbh. Several languages on duolingo are decent ways to dip your toes in the water for language learning, I've heard good things about the Spanish, German, and Mandarin courses. But it's really dependent on the language, I tried Duolingo's Irish course and it was so bad that I'm still trying to unlearn a good amount of misinformation, really soured language learning for me even though I eventually got a good course elsewhere.
I did both the Spanish and French trees completely, I do think I learned some things along the way, and some of it stuck. Every language learning method is not perfect, you need to immerse with multiple things. I was living in country, doing duolingo, listening to pimsleur, listening to radio in language, going to classes and hanging out with native speakers, and my fluency still is not great. It takes years of being a child before you get anywhere and no system is going to solve it alone
Soon Duolingo will be teaching you phrases like "Down with the imperialist scum!"
I don’t think CCP would like people being against them in Mandarin
All the women in my office said everyone is moving to Lemonade. They said, “why would we move to another Chinese app? That’s dumb.”
No idea who owns Lemonade but it was interesting to me that they were not interested at all in Rednote.
Lemonade is an insurance company, yeah, they moving their car insurance ti Lemonade.
It’s actually Lemon8
This news is brought to you by the company of China 🇨🇳
A 216% increase sounds impressive, but probably isn't because the starting number is very small.
Duolingo:
Jokes on you I'm using it to learn Spanish.
Jokes on you I'm using it to be disappointed in myself.
Honestly I had that app on my phone for 3 months before I actually started using so I feel you there. It's not that bad to start off with and it starts super slow. And fuck streaks and notifications and all that shit I just do it when I'm bored instead of scrolling and refreshing pages on my social media of choice.
i knew that damn owl was going to get involved in corporate lobbying at some point
Realistically, how much duolingo would one need to do to be able to use RedNote in chinese?
The owl will have you study "the man has a red scarf" for two years before you get to words like "save" or "add to watchlist".
The dog paid for all the groceries in cash.
Fucking trash app being steadily more and more enshittified by "AI" and somehow adding another level of subscription every other month.
I've been doing Spanish at the same level for over 400 hours.
I learned more about Spanish from 30 minutes of language transfer than in nearly 1000 days of Duolingo.
It's a trash app if you want to learn another language.
I wounder if tik tok gave trump a million what will happen.
Does this mean they'll finally give us lessons beyond HSK3? Because those final 6 repeating lessons are driving me absolutely insane T-T
All part of the plan.... er sorry 都是计划的一部分
Big Language works in timescales unimaginable.
What is red note?
Afaik it is a chinees instagram / tiktok alternative
Instagram yes, but not really TikTok.
I'm highly suspicious of Rednote. It came out of nowhere with a sudden, massive surge in downloads, so tiktok users assume that's where refugees are flocking.
Digital nomads gone wrong