Duolingo and similar apps promise you can learn a language in just a few fun minutes a day. But does it actually work, or is it just gamification designed to keep you in the app, not in your studies? A reflection on whether these apps deliver on their educational promise:
https://informujte.cz/en/how-learning-apps-change-language-education/
#Duolingo #LanguageLearning #Gamification #EdTech #LanguageApps
Glisten 2.4 is out now, with support for Liquid Glass in iOS 26 and macOS 26. It also has better handling of audio files and some important bug fixes. https://glisten.ist
Admittedly, I never really could give #Duolingo my stamp of approval, due to its methodology used for teaching languages, but inundating the app with ads just to upsell a subscription is not an improvement. I guess I'm just a sucker for getting lured into a #proprietary piece of software whose standard of teaching is not fully disclosed. In my defense, though, that was long before I found out that I love #FOSS.
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Apps can help you recognize Hebrew words - but they can’t teach you to use the language in real life.
Your brain needs context, feedback, and a system designed for how your brain actually learn Hebrew.
That’s why so many learners stay stuck for years… and then feel clarity in days when they switch to a method built for real-life use.
If you’re ready for Hebrew to finally make sense:
💬 Comment SPEAK and I’ll send you an invite to my complete system that helps you use Hebrew naturally, confidently, and without guessing.
דַּי לְנַחֵשׁ time to stop guessing🤍
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Can anyone recommend good online tools, ideally free or affordable, for learning Danish?
A friend has offered to help me learn and I want to take advantage of the opportunity!
*Not Duolingo, obviously. I'm not interested in their AI slop.
**I don't need lectures from language study purists about using online tools. I am asking for what I want for my own reasons. Bullies and scolds will be blocked.
#Danish #Dansk #Language #LanguageStudy #LanguageLearning #LanguageApps.
Glisten 2.1 has big improvements to punctuation and sentence splitting. It pushes the speech-to-text results through an LLM, producing a much better transcript.
Glisten 2: Going Beyond Learning to Teaching
https://www.glisten.ist/blog/glisten-2-going-beyond-learning-to-teaching
Glisten 2.0 is ready to test!
Every language student’s favorite podcast player (iPhone) is growing up, with improved transcriptions from OpenAI’s Whisper, inline translations, guided workouts which read translations aloud, new podcast categories (news, stories, popular), and much more.
If you haven’t tried it, or gave up, now is the time to give it a shot!
TestFlight is public: https://testflight.apple.com/join/5hvoRNHb
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