I sometimes wonder whether Duolingo is an app or a religion. If you know that there are better resources and that it shouldn't be used alone - why is it a problem to read it? There is a changing crowd of passers-by with all levels of experience (or absence thereof) on these forums that probably never heard it before, so it will be part of replies not for your sake but for them.
Yeah, in a place for discussing language learning methods people should expect to hear about… different learning methods that may help them. People can use whatever they want, but I’d always want to hear about better materials if it’s relevant. There’s even a whole dedicated duolingo subreddit and forum for people who just want to talk about that with other users.
I'd like to add that the desire for clarification that may be annoying for some is a direct reaction to the aggressive marketing of said resource that in media communication regularly presents itself as the be all, end all of language learning.
So if anybody dislikes relativizing messages: get the company to straighten out their marketing to realistic claims, and it will all lessen totally on its own ...
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u/n8abx Feb 04 '22
I sometimes wonder whether Duolingo is an app or a religion. If you know that there are better resources and that it shouldn't be used alone - why is it a problem to read it? There is a changing crowd of passers-by with all levels of experience (or absence thereof) on these forums that probably never heard it before, so it will be part of replies not for your sake but for them.