Duolingo has seemed like a very sketchy app to me for a long time. I have used and recommended it when it first came out. However, when I used it more seriously

Duolingo has seemed like a very sketchy app to me for a long time. I have used and recommended it when it first came out. However, when I used it more seriously, I realized he Duolingo is nearly pointless. It is pretty terrible way to fool yourself into thinking you are learning a language. It is at best a way to kind of get familiar with the language but it is not a primary or secondary resource, perhaps more of a fifth or sixth resource and only then more as a break. I think you can just spend a lot of time on Duolingo, which they want, accomplishes nothing at all other than accumulating their useless badges. If they want to go “AI first,” I invite to consider just shutting down their business altogether and tell people to just use ChatGPT for learning, or better yet, with their vision of the future, just tell people not yo bother learning another language at all.