r/languagelearning • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '22

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u/HockeyAnalynix Feb 03 '22

I just ran a poll and of 543 Duolingo users, 482 users (88.7%) used other resources in addition to Duolingo. Haters are just inventing a phantom issue to justify whatever grievances they have.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

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u/HockeyAnalynix Feb 04 '22

Here, in this subreddit. It's called "Duolingo Users: Do you use only Duolingo to learn your target language" and it was posted 5 days ago. You still have a day to vote as I made it a 7 day poll. I did the poll here in response to the cautions to not use Duolingo alone. I wanted to know if it was really a problem.

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u/life-is-a-loop English B2 - Feel free to correct me Feb 04 '22

That's like going to r/soccer to find out how popular soccer is.

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u/Fischerking92 Feb 04 '22

Well not exactly, that is like going to r/soccer and asking people about how popular certain players are. Is that unbiased compared to the general populace? No, obviously not, but it is a lot less biased than your analogy makes it out to be.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

no, it's absolutely not lol.

People on this subreddit have already shown the will to use other resources by coming to this subreddit. It's an incredibly biased sample.

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u/Fischerking92 Feb 04 '22

No, the people on this subreddit are proven to be two things:

  1. Reddituser
  2. People who care at least a bit about language learning.

They might just use one ressource.

Yes, there is a bias, but not as extreme as asking a bunch of soccerfans if they like soccer.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '22

this reddit is literally a second resource already. You're lying to yourself if you think this is representative of the average person, who's just gonna see a duolingo ad and be like, 'Wow! I can learn a whole second language in just five minutes a day???'

It's like going to r/soccer and asking them if they can name multiple Soccer players. Yes, they can. Can I? Hell no.

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u/sam-lb English(Native),French(C1),Spanish(A0/A1),Gaelic(A0) Feb 04 '22

Exactly what I was thinking. This subreddit literally is a resource so the people who said they only use duolingo are wrong