• DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    It’s hard to find a big tech company that hasn’t been laying off like crazy lately. I just hit 200 days yesterday learning French.

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        I couldn’t imagine myself doing it either tbh, but I started learning on Duolingo as a personal challenge: to prove to myself that I can still learn something new every day and allay my irrational fear that I’m getting too old to improve at anything.

        And it worked. That fear is gone now, but the streak goes on. Not letting it go cause I’m that stubborn.

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        5 months ago

        I think so? But it’s not like I spent more than 5 minutes a day practicing in the past 3 years or so. My sessions certainly go down depending on how busy I get.

        Also fun fact: I had to practice German during my wedding. Didn’t go well with the wife but now she gets it. Hehe

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    5 months ago

    2200+ fire streak since I joined 10 years ago (multiple languages). Lost the streak a few times before. I’m not fluent but maintaining it helps me to improve a bit every day.

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      5 months ago

      Impressive, which languages are you learning?

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          5 months ago

          I’m learning Spanish too! We should create a community to practice ha ha

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            5 months ago

            Good idea. That’s what I’m missing about Duolingo tbh. Let’s start it. Maybe we should make a discord or alternative?

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              5 months ago

              I was more thinking about a Lemmy community, I asked about a Spanish instance a few days ago on !fediverse@lemmy.world, seems like there isn’t any at the moment.

              I have been thinking about it for a while, I’ll keep you posted about the potential options

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                What’s wrong with this community if you want to keep it on Lemmy? I think it would fragment the community unnecessarily

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    5 months ago

    0, I quit

    Before I killed it, I had 443, and easily could have kept going if I had desired

    The layoffs and AI thing are only a partial reason for me leaving The whole volunteer shutdown when that happened, hiding 4 of their courses, and some other minor bad decisions made me stop Not to mention, Duolingo is very slow at times and doesn’t teach any grammar unless you happen to be learning one of the 3 top languages

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      5 months ago

      Makes sense. Are you aware of any open source alternative?