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[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 13 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Just tried Spanish and man it is all over the place. Missing/switching between definite and indefinite articles, phrases that are technically grammatically correct but have a very "english-brained" aura to them, and weird duplicate questions that don't respect the gender of words.

Overall I wouldn't recommend using it at its current state. Just use Language Transfer instead

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago

looks like spanish only for now.

[–] stray@pawb.social 11 points 23 hours ago

Gonna echo the disappointment that they've elected to copy Duolingo's translation model instead of a more immersive model like Rosetta Stone.

"I is middle country person," is a perfectly sensible translation in my brain, but Duolingo and its clones are obsessed with getting the particulars of English correct. The mindset of Mandarin grammar is exactly where I want to be, and the insistence on returning to English is very disruptive.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] fembinary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

its apparently in a subpage, librelingo.app/dev for some reason not accessible from frontpage (or im blind)