alt Hacker NewsHunh. It feels weird to say "Language learning apps are always ugly, clunky" and "Apps only ever support the major languages, leaving minority languages in the dust" when those are a few things that Duolingo actually does fairly well. Don't get me wrong, Duolingo has a LOT of flaws and I'm excited to hear you're building an alternative to it, just the pitch feels like it's based on a time when Rosetta was the name to beat.
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iammattmurphy • yesterday at 9:21 PM
Absolutely. One thing you absolutely can’t say about Duolingo is that it’s ugly. Not very clunky either.
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That’s a fair point. It was originally “Those that work are always…” but I lost that preface in some refactoring.
I think it’s quite obvious though why Duolingo doesnt disprove any of my points. There was and is still no pleasant, multilingual, effective language learning app on the market. For the most part, you can choose one of those (and no, I do not consider Duolingo “multilingual” in the sense most polyglots need :) )