return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoDuolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNotetechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareSiegfried@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·11 months agoI don’t get the connection between losing access to tik tok and starting a +20 years journey to learn chinese
minus-squarehansolo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoI believe that a clickbait title about 400 idiot people starting the first lesson in Duolingo and then quickly quitting without deleting their accounts is the through line here.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months ago“only idiots show interest in a second language” is a take for sure
I don’t get the connection between losing access to tik tok and starting a +20 years journey to learn chinese
I believe that a clickbait title about 400 idiot people starting the first lesson in Duolingo and then quickly quitting without deleting their accounts is the through line here.
“only idiots show interest in a second language” is a take for sure