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Yes and mine say things like "why pay 500 for a language course when I can do this?" Of course they ignore me when I say language meetups are free, because "im not at that level yet." It's usually anxiety.

Well that's all well and good, but the ignorant masses who called EA the most evil company did so for basically the same reasons that you'd critique those other companies. Big corporations that put out productions designed to do nothing but take money from (often poor) people at the expense of their health.

To me, the constant criticism of gamers over the issue reads like shilling for that pathetic open letter EA put out in response. Classic deflection from a toxic entity.

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See, that's my issue. If Duo is only a good way to "get started," then it isn't a good way to LEARN a language, as in learn how to actually use it to a level approaching fluency. The whole thing is false advertising, not because of the specifics, but because of the advertising which makes people think (and yes, millions believe(d) it) that you can become fluent by using Duolingo.

lets do them ourselves, im done waiting around for those mooks!

I teach languages and teaching people how to functionally craft things with a language works much better in the medium to long term. By the time you get some basics down, you can actually have a conversation beyond "comment ca va, comment t'appelle tu?" because you know how to use the language, not just parrot phrases.

Theres a persistent myth that you can just "absorb" a language; you can't, you have to understand it either intuitively or unconsciously through experience. Duolingo took so much money from people by pushing this idea.

Sitting in an empty room beats doomscrolling!

It sucks balls. I learned more in one month of studying from a textbook and attending conversation classes than I did in two years using Duolingo. And its so much worse now than its ever been!

The bigger problem for Canadian universities is that they have never had their funding restored to pre-austerity levels by the various levels of government.

Just like every comment you read on the internet?

See my reply to a poster below for links.

You guys are reading too much into my statement and unfortunately must not read the news much:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/south-koreas-president-l...

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Peti...

https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/news/joint-statement-unite...

Honestly. HN has the most asinine commenter sometimes.

Well if you have knowledge that proves my comment wrong, please present it.

Im Canadian too and I fear our country becomes more American every year.

Canada just allowed the USA to have control over their nuclear plants and waste for 20 years.

South Korea had to publicly come out and say they wanted to accept Trump's deal, but it had to have some concessions or else they would go into economic collapse!

And the EU just allowed something like 30% more access from USA food which was previously considered not fit for human consumption under their health laws right? Please correct my figures if they're wrong.

No, it's not. There is a big difference between Chinese-level control of information and what is seen in the west. Naivete would be believing that the west has none, or maybe that the West has so much that it is somehow already an Orwellian Big Brother state.

also was the outcome fostered by the USSR

The problem with this statement is that your Chinese friend comes from a place where every information source allowed by the government can be safely assumed to be propaganda, by definition. That's how their system works. Not so in the west.

It's true to an extent, but its not what happened in Afghanistan.

The entire effort by the British was to keep them as possessions. The wars continued after independence because non-communists took power.

Mau Mau, Malaya, Kenya

The US totally blew it in Afghanistan and its well-documented how most of the initiatives there failed due to corruption and mismanagement.

water supply raises or lowers property values

prison life