Your education system is just going to be a bunch of different mobile apps with microtransactions in five years isn’t it

Also, recommend an app for practicing writing kanji, I got a stylus and everything

Your education system is just going to be a bunch of different mobile apps with microtransactions in five years isn’t it

Already is…

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Duolingo has been replacing the voices with cartoony ones, and that causes serious problems when learning a tonal language like Chinese. It became incomprehensible.

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I only started using it recently, do you mean the slightly exaggerated voice each character has?

The goth-y young woman character’s voice is kind of over the top in Japanese

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Yeah. Before I switched to HelloChinese, I would dread seeing the little boy on the screen, because it meant I would have to just guess at what he’s saying, and nevermind hearing the tones.

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It doesn’t really hinder comprehension in Japanese, it’s just amusing how anime-y some of them sound

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I love it DuoLingo offers Hindi and displays is with the Indian flag but no Urdu… or Bengali… or Marathi… or Telugu…

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Looks like Duolingo has already updated the app? Not sure how this is at all better though… https://hexbear.net/post/204130

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I’ve been doing HelloChinese on and off, because I’m dedicated to being just sightly ahead of the HSK 1 curve for the rest of my life.

Would love to find something better.

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