I wouldn’t say it’s exceptionally worse considering it’s free vs begging you for microtransactions. Gamification is easy enough on your own, get some ice cream

I wouldn’t say it’s exceptionally worse considering it’s free vs begging you for microtransactions. Gamification is easy enough on your own, get some ice cream! If you need accountability, ask a friend. You could alternatively fill up millions of flash cards in Anki with random phrases out of chatGPT and really hone in on the Duolingo simplicity. Silly examples, but I just feel like “AI phrases with TTS audio displayed along side 1 of 20 PNGs of a cartoon character” isn’t really a defendable product in a market that churns out multiple copies of that idea a month. They used to be a course that was designed by employees/volunteers interested in language (in theory), now it’s a randomized. Eh.