Is it just me or does the Duolingo bird looks sad/old/tired? What happened to the previous icon?

  • echo64@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Duolingo keeps doing mass layoffs, so the bird is overworked. You can help him out by switching to a language learning app that actually helps you learn a language instead of endlessly throwing flash cards at you without teaching you anything! Win win.

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      9 months ago

      I’ve been working on my Spanish with practice from some of my coworkers and patients. So far Duolingo’s “flash cards” have actually been pretty helpful, but I grant that some of the actual "instruction"isn’t there. I went from really rudimentary Spanish to being able to conduct a patient evaluation in Spanish as long as it’s straight forward.

      Everyone shits on Duo but I’ve found it to be a really helpful practice tool myself.

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        9 months ago

        Anything is better than nothing. This is true. But that doesn’t mean you aren’t wasting your time on something that does the bare minimum.

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    9 months ago

    It’s my fault, y’all. I’m sorry.

    I recently started using Duolingo to learn Spanish, and it’s clinically proven I ruin everything I touch, so I think I’m killing the bird…

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They recently added some unlockable graphics for the widget. Nothing major.

    Guess they changed the icon just for the hell of it while they were at it.

  • morgan423@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m tired, boss. Tired of bein’ on the the app store, wantin’ to be lonely as an owl in the rain. I’m tired of always havin’ people annoying me, tellin’ me to give them new words. Mostly, I’m tired of people never memorizin’ the vocabulary. I mean, how many times can I give you “Cómo estás?” before you finally remember what it means, Cletus?

    There’s too much misremembered - it’s like pieces of glass in my head, all the time, I’ve fed you the entire Spanish lexicon ten times, and you’ve learned three words. Can you understand?