@tuckerteague I use #Duolingo for Portuguese and French (and sometimes #Klingon too, because why not). The app is really only good to learn the basics and a bit of vocab. Improving listening and speaking skills doesn’t work at all — you really need proper training (and/or exposure) for that.

@JensJot @tuckerteague It's one of the only resources available for Celtic languages, which is us the only reasons I use it. Duolingo's refusal to hire linguists to improve their less popular courses is a huge weakness.

@Meowthias @tuckerteague Yes, I imagine it’s just not a good investment. #Duolingo is a company, not a not-for-profit or anything like that.
At the same time, not even their (probably popular) PT & FR courses are particularly varied - I have the feeling of writing/translating the same 10 sentences over and over again. Not sure how this goes with their claim of using AI & teaching experts to develop their courses. 😂

@JensJot @tuckerteague Duolingo may be a business, but in their early days their courses were created by volunteers. Even if you believe that offering courses in endangered languages (and helping to save them from extinction) isn't sufficiently profitable, languages like Romanian and Swedish that have millions of speakers deserve to at least have better quality audio than they do. Duolingo has the resources to hire linguists and build a recording studio.