- 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.
Use free Anki and get a free 1k or 5k high-frequency community deck from Anki website. Or get Refold 1k deck (paid) for anki.
If you don’t mind paying sub (look for discount/vouchers), use lingvist (paid) or memrise (not sure how this app is now after the changes) to learn 1k words. Cancel subscription once you learnt 1k or 2k words, probably will take 1-3 months. Learn about 15-30 words a day.
Try reading graded readers with audio at the same time.
Read up on some basic high frequency grammar in your target language.
Depending on language you will have to also actively learn the alphabet, numbers, phonic and so on.
The idea is to learn high frequency vocab and get to consuming content (using language) as soon as possible not collect gems, coins or whatever.
If you like keeping scores, count the books/article read, count the words learnt, count the hours spend listening don’t count coins or gems.
Anki - https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Anki shared decks - https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks?search=french
Refold decks - https://refold.la/category/decks/?show=all
Lingvist - https://lingvist.com/