Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide
Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:
Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)
Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)
Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)
Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)
*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.
Mango (Languages: So many and all endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)
AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)
AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone
lingory
ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)
Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)
Maybe all the things you thought made you you aren’t really…you. Barbie (2023) / Fight Club (1999)
just reread whump au for the nth time now, and it suddenly occurred to me what in god's name would've happened if dipper just straight up kicked the bucket right after saying, "i love you."
i can't imagine bill's reaction would've been a good one. i'm getting chills just trying to picture it, honestly.
in fact, just the image of dipper dying in general, and seeing the aftermath of that from bill's pov, has my whole body breaking out into goosebumps.
awesome.
also, let's just assume that bill hasn't yet figured out the whole reincarnation thing in this scenario aha
(i just really like angst okay? lmao)
Oh man, Bill? Oh Bill. Bill.
He would be very, very upset.
Also this is a good opportunity for the ol' classic:
THIS. And my personal theory being, the federal agents that came to the Mystery Shack in search of paranormal activities are some like attachment agency to Cognito Inc.
I know I mentioned this in shitpost-adjacent blog before, but I feel like I really have to give a better explanation here.
It is so very possible that Inside Job and Gravity Falls take place in the same universe, it's not even funny.
I've got little theories and essentially one of those conspiracy corkboards in my brain, but the one thing I really want to talk about is in Myc's Hiveschool Reunion.
In that episode, the gang all travels to Oregon (you know, where Gravity Falls takes place) to get down into the earth. And I'm like 90% sure it was just a throwaway line, but Reagan says, "if we go too deep, we'll hit [...] some wacky gravitational bullshit."
Well. You know what else is underground and makes some "wacky gravitational bullshit" in Oregon?
Ford's portal. Booyah.
stop writing fanfiction we need political assassins now more than ever
That’s impossible, the last guy would’ve had to die for him to be Pope
I was trying to find out if Kermit was eligible to be pope and I found a blog that says he's the perfect example of a catholic priest
No cool ideas today so take some sub-par art of my favorite through the years ig-
Ignore my friend, Lily. She wanted to be included in the art so I sketched her on @lilymireles7
My name was ‘Dave’ on instagram awhile back - for trolling purposes - and I had ten requests for messages and group chats about joining cults/white supremacy groups.
Don’t get me wrong, I signed up to all of them, but why ‘Dave’. What about that name inspires the thought, ‘yeah, Dave says slurs’.
Pope says mass deportation is wrong ❗️
JD Vance uses sudden death: it is very effective.
so what do we think