Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI

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Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI
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Is there any better app you can recommend? I started with babbel in the beginning but after finishing the basic courses it got so dry and boring to use, that i swapped to Duo. Also because a few friends use it.

I strongly recommend [Language Transfer ](https://language transfer.org). The best language course I have ever done, and I have done many (I speak five languages, at varying levels of fluency).

They have an app, that is simple, streamlined, and very functional.

The app also has also an Introduction to Music Theory course which people say is very, very good.

Hey mate you have a space in the url mate, looks cool, might motivate myself to go back to learning language

Looks cool. But sadly they don't have dutch. Learning it for private reasons.

I second this. I did the Greek course and it was absolutely phenomenal.

You have a space in your URL btw.

I thought my duolingo leasons were a bit weak. Thank you so much for these!

I've been using LingoDeer for the past few days since hearing this news, and so far it's not too bad. The social features are severely lacking compared to Duolingo (my friend group goes hard on the friends quests lol) but they have a lot more grammar explanation and whatnot available that duolingo doesn't. Plus, LingoDeer seems much less focused on learning for tourism, and more for actual learning.

Note this is all for the Japanese course, no idea how their other courses are.