Wales’s minister for education and the Welsh language said he will write to the company to see how the government might be able to support the course’s continued development.
Wales’s minister for education and the Welsh language said he will write to the company to see how the government might be able to support the course’s continued development.
It’s actually cool to see a government body embrace new technologies to promote their language and culture.
It is! It’s unfortunate that Duolingo killed the volunteer program.
I can’t even see comments on lessons anymore. There was one Brazilian dude named Paulenrique who would answer anyone’s questions about quirks of the language and now all his efforts to help people are just gone.
Yeah there were lots of people in the Italian comments who did the same thing. It was invaluable. Now all that work is gone. It’s frustrating. I cancelled my super Duolingo subscription over that.
Yeah, tons of helpful tips on actual natives chiming in, just gone. It’s a shame.
It’s because they didn’t connect for 7 days… A warning to the other students.
I’m not sure if you’ve ever moderated anything volunteer based but… honestly you can’t give the internet anything nice.
But then why did they get rid of the comments that were old, locked, and useful? Sometimes it feels like Duolingo cares less and less about whether or not people learn languages. It’s not surprising, but unfortunate.
I’m not saying it was the ideal thing, I’m saying people mostly suck and moderating something sucks a lot less when you can fire the person who decided to say “pinche tu madre” meant “have a nice day.”
the Welsh government is desperate. Welsh was close to being eradicated because somebody wanted more land, like they literally used to beat children in schools for speaking Welsh.
Now Wales is trying really hard to bring it back, and duolingo offering a free course for anybody on the planet helps a ton. Especially because it’s hard to find learning resources when you don’t live in Wales. Hell, the resources are scarce even when you do live in Wales!
It’s unfortunate to see them embrace closed source solutions. They could either fund an opensource project and build a welch program on top of it making them the owners of their own fate, or they could beg a company to not let their language die.