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Duolingo has been shit for ages, I cancelled my subscription long ago. Apparently they use AI instead of actual employees now lol.
Actually was a good app once upon a time but it’s been fully enshittified. Also I still can’t get over the fact that they offer a Klingon course but no Thai, Punjabi, Urdu, Persian, or Cantonese (for English speakers).
I started chinese this past year and I used HelloChinese with free Duolingo (+free Ankidroid) and it was useful cuz Duolingo offered more variety of sentences to fixate/practice any topic/grammar rule (which Duolingo never fucking explain lmao). Then I finished the HelloChinese course but the Duolingo one added a whole 45 chapters section recently, so now I'm doing HelloChinese Stories, free Anki and free Duolingo.
(I also still have DuChinese which system I really like but for some reason the stories I picked up were boring/weird compared to HelloChinese ones, but HelloChinese Stories system suck ass tbh)
Oh and once a week I enter Xiaohongshu to read comments and get slapped by how fucking far I am from real use, and very happy when I do understand things.
I hit the end of hellochinese and ended up moving on to superchinese it has modules through level 6 . I still like hello chinese's "immersive lessons" a bit more though
I'm trying Superchinese now and there's too much info going on with the collective cards and pop ups but eh interesting how different it can be