Feeling real immersed, Duolingo
Would it kill them to better represent other cultures and countries or do they just have the one set of Corporate Memphis art assets and they’re too stingy to create more
Feeling real immersed, Duolingo
Would it kill them to better represent other cultures and countries or do they just have the one set of Corporate Memphis art assets and they’re too stingy to create more
Does Duolingo still do the stupid cartoony voices? That (probably fortunately) really burned me on the app. It became impossible to understand what they were saying, what tones, etc.
They’re pretty anime-y with the Japanese track, especially on the younger characters. I’ve heard people say it really fucks them up with languages like Chinese
It’s really bad for Chinese in general (hey here’s a character with no context with an ambiguous computer-generated voice! No, we won’t tell you the pinyin so you can figure out wtf we’re saying) but the cartoon voices killed it completely.
At least with Japanese you can toggle between romaji, furigana and off, though I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if their Chinese “course” was even less developed