2w ago

psycho emoji too 🙂

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Should definitely avoid Duolingo.
- I am visiting denmark in summer and wanted to learn some danish. I looked at duolingo, then at their privacy policy, then i threw the idea away. Babbel is better in terms of privacy but still not great. I haven‘t found an alternative product yet.
  
  Asking for a friend, do they sell your data or just (ab)use it?
  
  Both, your data ends up at facebook, google and i think microsoft as well :))
  
  Thanks for the heads up, I never cared much for American companies using my data because I didn't care much of them making money off my back but I feel that I have to change that with now geopolitic situation changed. I don't want my data accessible to a government that has increasingly closer ties with regimes like the ones in China, Russia and Israel.
  
  You should find some English Danish deck on Anki
  
  Yeah I read about that as well. Issue is i currently have an iOS device where Anki costs 25 CHF and i'm not willing to pay that much considering I will switch to Android on my next phone.
  
  Was thinking perhaps Rosetta Stone, they're old and well-established, and while I've not read through their privacy policy on account of being dead tired at the moment, at a glance it looks digestible.
  But then I noticed that they don't do Danish.
  Though maybe we're too app focused. Denmark has some really good children's books authors, H.C. Andersen is classic, most people probably know him through his work "Den Lille Havfrue", or at least the Disnep adaptation, "The Little Mermaid." For pronunciation my favourite method is singing and mimicking. I enjoy the mouthfeel of other languages, though admittedly Danish is incredibly difficult as the sounds are so different from Swedish.
  
  Yeah honestly children's books are a good start if you are serious about it, but since I just want to learn the absolute basics for day to day communication, this seems overkill for me. I think danish should be quite approachable for me though since I speak german in mother tongue
  
  I started using Dreaming Spanish which hasn't collected anything but an email and the amount of time I've spent watching videos but I'm not sure if there's an equivalent for Danish. If there is, it seems ok so far.
  
  thanks for the input. Seems great for learning spanish.
- I dunno, this is the kinda energy needed to keep that fucking owl dead.
  
  I kill you now
- Oh no! How will I pretend to learn a language now?
- Duolingo's crap for learning anyway

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