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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote

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Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote | TechCrunch
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TikTok U.S. users have been learning Chinese on Duolingo in increasing numbers amid their adoption of a Chinese social app called RedNote ahead of the
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    I’m pretty sure that this post is a total load of bs.

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      It’s real…

      Source: https://x.com/duolingo/status/1879582775055176008

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          That’s what I was thinking. Probably not that small, but not a lot it’s a notoriously hard language to learn. You have to be pretty stupid or nieve to think you’re learning it on Duolingo.

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        Could it be just bots?

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        My niece is one of tiktok’s victims and she is as young and lazy to even construct herself a sandwich. Nevermind learning a language as confusing and backwards as mandarin or Cantonese.

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          I’ve heard Mandarin at least is pretty straightforward, it’s just the writing system that causes problems.

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