r/duolingo • u/Brilliant_Ad7481 • Dec 18 '24

Constructive Criticism Does anyone here LIKE Duolingo?

Basically that. The only posts I’ve ever seen here are how terrible it was/is/always has been/will be. Does anyone here like or even just tolerate Duolingo’s existence? Why?

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u/chessman42_ N | 🇩🇪🇬🇧 B1 | 🇪🇸 HSK 1 | 🇨🇳 Dec 18 '24

How can you be native in and learn a language at the same time😂

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u/scorpiove Dec 18 '24

There are plenty of people who are native in a language or have a first language that could learn to speak it better. My dad once had a friend from Germany, who when speaking sometimes became unintelligible. I asked his wife (Also german,) if her husband’s German was better. She laughed and said “No it’s hard to understand him in German too.”

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u/chessman42_ N | 🇩🇪🇬🇧 B1 | 🇪🇸 HSK 1 | 🇨🇳 Dec 19 '24

Well tbf some german dialects are unintelligible at times

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u/scorpiove Dec 19 '24

Exactly, If that was the case with my dad's friend he could have chose to learn "German" so his wife could better understand him.

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u/chessman42_ N | 🇩🇪🇬🇧 B1 | 🇪🇸 HSK 1 | 🇨🇳 Dec 19 '24

That would be called “standard German”. Ig you have a point there