Go for it. It was already an old, long dead meme when I posted it here.

This but corps

“Make Sure You Are Square With Your God Before Trying To Merge This”

What I am saying is, I don’t think people who use duolingo are any better/worse off than most other methods.

I think that would go for most learning methods. When you don’t practice a skill you’re always going to get worse with it over time, especially if it is a language.

Doable but you need teachers to open source their lessons and vet them.

If an OS alternative was trying to completely replace duolingo, it would need far more than that. Duolingo has had extensive work put into listening and speaking lessons. Almost all lessons have a listening componentwhich is a ton of content to make up for. They have significantly better voice recognition than my phone. The amount of effort to get something like that working for a language, let alone dozens of languages is a high bar.

Take a look at any of the job postings that duolingo has, they’re only looking for Google employee level of skill for a reason (aside from how fucked the job market is).

It’s not impossible for duolingo to be replaced with an open source version, but it’s a giant undertaking.

The dictation software we have is pretty shitty though. It almost always needs proof-read, or re-dictated several times to get it right. At that point you may as well just send an audio clip.

Until the day that dictation software gets it 100% correct, it’s not going to be worth my time.

For now, the human on the other end will always have an easier time understand an audio clip than a machine, because human minds are more capable of using context and getting past regional accents.

It’d be nice if there were open source printers. Somehow we have a few for 3D printers but not 2D printers, and it is annoying as hell.

Minetest maybe. Microsoft is making some bad choices for minecraft and I’d like to see more love for its open source competitor.