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Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails (htxt.co.za)
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  • Following backlash to statements that Duolingo will be AI-first, threatening jobs in the process, CEO Luis von Ahn has tried to walk back his statement.
  • Unfortunately, the CEO doesn’t walk back any of the key points he originally outlined, choosing instead to try, and fail to placate the maddening crowd.
  • Unfortunately the PR team may soon be replaced by AI as this latest statement has done anything but instil confidence in the firm’s users.
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[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Would you recommend one over the other and if so why?

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 1 week ago

As a complete beginner, Drops is pretty good for learning random words and increasing vocabulary. As you advance through it you start seeing sentences too, but it doesn't teach you how to make your own sentences, only to memorize the ones they pre-created.

Rosetta Stone doesn't translate anything. All of the content is in the language you want to learn and it tries to introduce you to things in a natural way. For example it shows a picture of someone biting an apple and says "the man eats an apple", then later shows other pictures related to one or multiple men, fruits and verbs, so you can get used to the differences between things just by observing those.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just tried "Language Drops" and it was... interesting. It didn't place me at the right level, so I got a very beginner lesson when I'm closer to intermediate (but definitely not fluent). I'm not sure I liked matching the pictures- the picture for "thank you" could mean different things depending on how you interpret the person's face and body language- and then I hit the end of the free content for the day. It didn't get to different tenses or even whole sentences- just basic vocabulary and no verbs. Maybe it ramps up quickly?

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 week ago

Sometimes the icons annoy me too and I wish the app had an option to always show the icon's label, but at least you can tap on the icon to see the label.