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

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52721306

So tiktok is what Gen Z decides to actually put their collective bargaining power together to fight the government over? Not… Anything else of import?

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The spice must flow

4.3 people are now learning Chinese.

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你好

Goodbye.

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The most important thing in Duolingo’s chart on social media is the fact that they didn’t show the unit. How much are these 216% in absolute numbers? (If there are 100 learners, you can easily increase that by 200%, but the total number remains still meaningless.)

With better numbers, this article is useless, except maybe for Chinese propaganda.

@schizoidman if the alternative to corporate owned social media is a platform of the CCP then we’re pretty much all fucked.

Maybe they’ll use this opportunity to improve the course. It’s not bad but it could be better.
I think I read somewhere that the Spanish course is the most advanced?!
Not sure but it does feel better and fuller that’s for sure, and it has a lot more audio bits and fun stuff like that.

The CEO is AI pilled now but i guess most users dont learn a ton from lingo as it is and slop would be as effective for some users

No one wants to use zark fuckerbeg’s apps

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