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Calais, France

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Top 2% 😌

Look how much I learned on Duolingo in 2022! How did you do? #Duolingo365

At least something for my C.V. … yayy

#duolingo #duolingo365 #languages

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Can we all agree that Johnny Depp was incredible as Grindelwald, but Mads is simply the perfect actor to play Jude Law’s Dumbledore’s love interest?

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Oha xD

#spotify #wrapped #spotify wrapped

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Same but in small ✌🏼

scrambled eggs

#Eggs #food

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how beautiful!

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Guten Tag.

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Super interesting Twitter thread on the origin of Basque!

This provides a new insight into written Basque before the 15th century. As the news is just recent there aren't any academic articles yet and probably won't be for quite a while, though I found it interesting nevertheless.

I am hoping to revive this blog soon! I'm sorry for the inactivity though I was juggling a lot of plates and this was the first I decided to drop. I hope to write a review of 'Timefulness' by Marcia Bjornerud soon so keep an eye out 👀.

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Duolingo’s latest update reflects a troubling shift in the company’s core values.

Duolingo’s latest press release says it all:

We often hear from learners that they’re not sure whether they’re using Duolingo the “correct” or “best” way. We’re always looking for ways to make language learning easier, and we thought we could do better at guiding learners through lessons! Now we’re excited to introduce a change to the home screen that gives you a clear path to follow — so you can be confident that each step you take in Duolingo is truly the best step for reaching your language goals.

There is a “correct” way to be a language learner, and a “wrong” way to be a language learner. Duolingo users who do not fit the cookie cutter mold are disposable.

An app that once empowered learners to actively engage in their own individualized, self-directed learning process now proposes to relieve its users of the “burden” of decision making, by forcing them along what it deems the one and only “true path” to language fluency.

After all,

Why go to all the trouble of creating a customizable product that adapts to a variety of customer preferences?

Isn’t it much more cost effective to determine which customers spend the most money, analyze how they use the app, and then devise a system that forces all other customers to use the app the exact same way these “ideal” customers use it?

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Duolingo's main selling point for many years was its gamification. This new update turns a game into a chore.

Duolingo lauds the science behind its new layout. It assures users that there are many reputable scientific studies proving that their new method is the easiest and most efficient learning method.

This might appeal to people who are learning a language solely out of obligation, because they need it for a job, or because they are forced to live as refugees in a foreign country, and they lack access to traditional learning resources.

However, the users who use Duolingo because they want to, and not just because they have no alternatives — those users are, well, gamers.

People who want to play.

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What's the point of gamification?

To understand that, we have to understand what makes a video game appealing in the first place.

Video games give the player agency.

A video game allows the player to make decisions that affect how the game progresses. This is what sets video games apart from more traditional forms of entertainment, like books, film and television.

Video games allow the player to actively participate in their entertainment, instead of passively consuming it.

Naturally, gamification benefits the kind of learners who would rather play a video game than watch a movie — who would rather actively participate than passively consume.

Gamification appeals to people who don’t like rigidly following a prescribed path. It appeals to people who don't like simply accepting whatever knowledge an authority deems worth having.

It appeals to people who don’t like being told what to do.

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Duolingo's new guided learning path is getting a lot of backlash, for obvious reasons.

What started out as gamification has turned into gamblification. Education via slot machine. One-size-fits-all user experience and a rewards system that gets increasingly less rewarding as time goes on.

Duolingo’s new update robs its users of the very things that make gamified learning appealing in the first place:

Self-direction

Customization

Choice

An app that once sought to empower learners now only seeks to control them.

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Hi pitigoi

hi

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Ich bin dein grösda Fan

Ich deiner auch, anonymus.

#anonymus #answered

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Hast du eine Blaumeise als Haustier.

Nein, aber die kommen immer zum Vogelhäuschen im Winter.

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tumblr ist ja viel übersichtlicher als Twitter haha

#tumblr #twitter #erster post #Dies ist mein erster post hallo #ich will das alles erst mal ausprobieren xD