No.13551765 [Last50 Posts]
As part of my eventual move to Svalbard
<shhhhh
I have been spending between eight and fifteen hours a day learning Norwegian. To this end, I have decided to avail myself of Duolingo as a free resource. Would it be surprising to you that it is comprised of sentences mostly relating to:
>making sure every prime minister, doctor, astronaut, and physicist is a woman
>men in women's dresses
>gay marriage
>rainbow flags
>the plight of refugees
>the plight of immigrants
>the power of democracy
>anxiety, dread, and weakness
>inane cultural references
To make matters much worse, it is
COMPLETE TRASH
in view of all (((research))) on the fundamentals of language learning. I will not bother you with citations, but it is total, thorough garbage. It's also the #1 education app on both iOS and Android stores, and is unlikely to fall any time soon. Not only that, but it is no doubt using its data, which can only but be enormous, to build god-only-knows-what sort of pedagogical AI megabeast.
Long story quite short: Duolingo is total fucking shit, and the education system, and the support structures, from top to bottom, are only going to continue to rot our children.
APOCALYPSE NOW
If any of you anons are educators by trade and would like to share horror stories, let's do that here. God morgen og tusen takk.
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No.13551837
>>13551765
doesn't usa have holocaust class? hahaha
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No.13551838
>>13551837
i'm fucking retarded i didn't even read
but yes, you're right. i tried it once and stopped trying to learn polish because it kept giving me shit sentances.
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No.13551848
>>13551838
These are just from the time since I posted this. The really sickening thing is just how willing the users in the forums are to heap praise on the content. (I've been shadowbanned from the discussion forums. Took half a day.)
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No.13551872
The worst thing about teachers is they complain about their pay while babysitting nignogs (their choice) and then retire with comfy pensions that white working men pay for. That can be said for any government worker though.
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No.13551974
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No.13552000
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No.13552036
>>13552000
I know it's stretching the limits of good judgement to think that /pol/ is interested in either foreign languages or education, but hope springs eternal.
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No.13552047
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No.13552064
The Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives between 1952 and 1954.
The committee investigated the use of funds by tax-exempt organizations (non-profit organizations) to see if they were being used to support communism.
The committee was alternatively known as the Cox Committee and the Reece Committee after its two chairmen, Edward E. Cox and B. Carroll Reece.
>the report did conclude that
"Some of the larger foundations have directly supported 'subversion' in the true meaning of that term–namely, the process of undermining some of our vitally protective concepts and principles. They have actively supported attacks upon our social and governmental system and financed the promotion of socialism and collectivist ideas."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_to_Investigate_Tax-Exempt_Foundations_and_Comparable_Organizations
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No.13552103
>>13552047
>my father is a synagoguer
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No.13552128
Aren't you that aussie who made the whites-must-become-volcanonigger-super-soldiers thread? You make the same shit on 4chan so it's easy to track you. Your super soldier thread has been made multiple times on 4chan, as have your Banks Island thread and your Svalbard thread, all with the AU flag. You even earlier said that whites should turn themselves orange skinned to live on Mars. Are you just a shitposter or do you have some bizarre transformation fetish?
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No.13552130
>>13552128
>schizopost
I did not start the Svalbard thread, but I am very glad for whomever-the-fuck did.
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No.13552162
>>13552130
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/1yqZ5THg/
You made a near identical pastebin thing for Mars:
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/image/kbFj8YUhcw6kKn8uoZC-Kw/
Banks Island thread:
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/220413208/
Now what, Venus?
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/221286383/
The only one you didn't seem to make (on 4chan) was the Svalbard one, but that thread appeared here a year later and you could've just copypasted it from 4chan:
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/171469184/
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No.13552235
>>13551765
ehh not a bibleanon but
The confusion of tongues (confusio linguarum) is the origin myth for the fragmentation of human languages described in the Book of Genesis 11:1–9, as a result of the construction of the Tower of Babel.
the zero effort to unify human conversation across the globe with one single language is the founding pillar of the principle of divide and conquer.
there are some "languages" where there are more and easily availiable literature, guides and general media being produced for and others, which do not have the same levels of availiability for learning material.
some languages are more basic some more advanced, some crude , some extremely precise.
i for my part do not have any experience with bias and indoctrination through language learning except the stuff which got shilled in my country back in the days. lately i have learned two very based languages , one of which is russian and the other of which is hebrew and in both cases the materials i got for learning both ranged from neutral to based. men dating girls , do general busyness stuff , navigate , debate etc. no refugee propaganda , no lgbtq normalizations etc.
i am very intrigued by your depiction and if i happen to find the time i will probably start to learn norwegian in the near future just to be able to check out how corroded they have become…
maybe finnish first because all the finns i've met were really nice people, next time ill try to find out if they have something like svalbard in finland too…
wish you all the best at svalbard be sure to keep 8ch in touch when you have set up shop with your original svalbardian whale oil surströmming sealskinsocks empire !
godspeed
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No.13552305
>>13552235
I studied Arabic for years and, of course, had absolutely zero interaction with any "progressive" materials. I don't think it's necessarily the language so much as the medium. (Though, of course, the language does, I really believe, change the kinds of thinking patterns a person has access to. I dreamt in Norwegian for the first time last night!)
But Duolingo is just corrupted to the core; I worked through their new Arabic tree in a day, and it had exactly the same kind of nonsense. I just maxxed out the Norwegian tree after 18 days, and I will probably not go back.
But Norwegian, let me say, is a magnificent language. For anyone coming from a Germanic language background, it just makes a lot of intuitive sense, and the way they make compound words is just brilliant (an "octopus" is an ink-squirter, "oppose" is stand-against… the list goes on). I've studied about 12 languages, and Norwegian stands at the top of the heap. I just love it. (Norway is freaking great, too.)
Study well, anon! Enjoy!
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No.13552313
>>13552235
OH hey, one other thing: clozemaster is the best language app/website I've ever seen. If you like languages, I think you'll find something there to learn from.
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No.13552387
>>13551848
>>13551974
>>13552047
holy. fucking. shit. you gotta be kidding me!
>it's hard to be a single mom
>jews have often been opressed
>worthless men
>he is weak
>my mother is a muslim and my father is a jew
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No.13552424
It’s legit run by or at least infiltrated by dishonest people, though OP’s complaints are mostly bogus. The inclusivity isn’t problematic, it’s rational. Duolingo’s integrity problem is separate.
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No.13552446
I opened Duolingo and tried learning some German, and something I realised is that they love using "das" (gender-neutral) instead of "die" (which is specifically female)
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No.13552494
>>13552424
I do not mean to suggest that women cannot or should not be doctors or prime ministers. When EVERY prime minister or doctor is a woman and the men are all bus drivers, I begin to wonder whether there's an agenda. Add to this the incredible amount of time speaking about immigrants and refugees, the Gloria Steinem quotes (One of the exercises is literally "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.") the gay flags (but not once the Norwegian or American/UK flag)… A pattern emerges.
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No.13552498
>>13552494
But women should not be prime ministers.
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No.13552519
>>13552498
I know this is /pol/, and I understand mediated speech has no value, but the point was simply that I'd be more than happy to allow a theoretical female prime minister in my language learning app; not
<Prime Ministers Are Necessarily Women.
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No.13552559
>>13552519
>>13552494
Why did you ignore this post? >>13552162
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No.13552567
>>13552559
I learned a long time ago that talking to schizos is pointless. I did not start any of the threads you mentioned, I do not start threads on cuckchan, I have no real desire to go to Mars or Venus, to change my skin color, or to do anything other than to study Norwegian. I do not give a single fuck about the establishment of an ethnostate, I do not give a single fuck about your stalking, your archiving, or your sad life, and you are quite fucking welcome to stop shitting up this thread. Take your meds you fucking twat.
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No.13552583
>>13552567
You write just like that aussie on 4chan, now with better grammar. Are you a jew just shitting up threads with larp faggotry? And, if you're paid, do you live/work in Melbourne?
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No.13552587
Good goyim, flee to some frozen shithole while we destroy your home.
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No.13552600
>>13552587
http://www.sonic.net/~jkremer/Voluspa.htm
Read this and don't post again until you understand the dharma. Thx.
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No.13552604
>>13552600
>muh pajeet shit
>muh Indo European heritage
Fuck the dharma and fuck you.
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No.13552662
>>13551765
op kvifor planleggar du og flytta til svalbard? aleine? kva vil du oppnå?
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No.13552724
>>13552662
Jeg reiste til norge to år siden og jeg elsker deg. Og jeg trenger ikke (den tingen for passet mitt) i Svalbard. Jeg vil leser Hamsun i norsk og snakker fisk og ser isbjørn og alle det. Og ja bare meg. En år kanskje? To? Jeg vet ikke.
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No.13552736
>>13551848
>>13551974
>>13551974
gee, I wonder why? Stop using kike shit.
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No.13552769
>>13552587
>flee to some frozen shithole
>frozen shithole
t. nigger
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No.13552790
>>13552724
kjekt å høyra, eg smådrøymar om å kanskje gjera noko liknande ein gong. du får ha lykke til. (den tingen du referere til kallast visum)
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No.13552838
>>13552567
>>13552724
hahaha, bra setning. du er morsom.
>i speak fish
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No.13552839
>>13552583
>there's only one larper on the internet
>anyone that posts with a similar style to another other anon is that anon
>paid Aussie shitposting
>cuckchan
Wew. I'd tell you to go back but I'd rather you just kys instead schizotard.
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No.13552849
>>13552790
Jeg skal skittpost når jeg ankomme og hvis du er i naborlag kan vi drikker øl og snakker/spiser fisk og kjempe en isbjørn.
>>13552838
løl ja snakker fisk og spiser fisk øgså
bare 18 dag!
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No.13552887
Fuck sake that was *my* plan to move to Svalbard with my Danish wife.
I'm learning Danish, written it's quite similar to Norwegian but fuck it's a mumbling language.
Haven't seen much on Duolingo though I'm quite early in. The main concern about Duolingo is that it actively seeks to teach rapefugees Swedish and other European languages to speed the process of intergration. Sweden is one of the most popular course for non English speaking people.
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No.13552889
>>13552849
Jeg elsker duolingo og sut dets pik :^)
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No.13552925
>>13552887
>. Sweden is one of the most popular course for non English speaking people.
wrong, the biggest is English and french.
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No.13552938
>>13551765
Maybe for nordcucks. When learning German everything was kosher except the multiracial images.
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No.13552942
>>13552925
I could be wrong, but I think the point anon was trying to make is that people use Duolingo in Sweden to learn Swedish.
https://making.duolingo.com/which-countries-study-which-languages-and-what-can-we-learn-from-it
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No.13553292
>>13552313
Going to uninstall Duolingo and switch to clozemaster post haste, thanks anon. I used Duo to refresh on my Russian before I went on a trip to Ukraine but the sheer volume of race-mixing anti-nationalist propaganda disgusted me.
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No.13554596
The faggot known as OP thought he was going to learn Norwegian on his gay phone.
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No.13554625
>>13553292
I thought you might find this funny, but I got this sentence from Clozemaster just now:
"“The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie is a real masterpiece of modern literature."
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No.13554650
>>13551837
this was reading material at a university apparently
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No.13554652
>>13551765
>As part of my eventual move to Svalbard
You're actually retarded.
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No.13554674
I'm learning German on Duolingo right now and haven't run into anything like that yet.
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No.13554685
Try learning Hebrew. The first things you learn are "Dad is coming" "Mom is coming" "They are coming" - It's very weird.
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No.13554692
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No.13554698
Organized Education is a terrible thing, whether public or private. You are sending your children to learn provably wrong bullshit and what is actually true is taught with extreme gaps. Homeschool your children. Worse, your child may qualify for GATE. Perhaps even worse your child may be misdiagnosed by your nigger preschool teacher to have ADHD and then be put on such intense pills he is put into sped classes and all symptoms of being high are blamed on his false illness. I should know, both things happened to me. I will not go into the full story now but the horrors of organized education are one of the truest evils on this planet today. I am a victim of MKUltra and am still attempting to sort out which lessons were fact and which lessons were fiction
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No.13554784
>>13554698
>Worse, your child may qualify for GATE
what's that ?
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No.13555034
>>13551974
>>13551848
>>13552047
I used to take the German course from French and I never had this type of sentences. WTF?
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No.13555086
>>13554625
I'm going tp play Clozemaster apologist: If you read how they get the sentences, they are drawn from Tatoeba.org, which may or may not be compromised, but which is at least Creative Commons. Clozemaster itself is just a skin on a decade+ old CC database. I call it plausible deniability.
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No.13555093
>>13552036
No it isn't, you fucking outsider. But I guess you should keep ignoring all the evidence in the thread of how fucked the education systems are and convince us you're educated, because that makes sense, right retard?
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No.13555097
>>13551765
I'm working for Berlitz, and there's a unit called
>talk about environmental problems
with conversational vocab like "climate change," as in:
>Climate change is threatening our population.
All of education, from language learning to social studies, and science (maybe not math) is injected with propaganda where it has no logical place.
>be me
>on a conference call
>jew complains that the images we select don't have guidelines for balance and inclusivity
>literally says "it's not fair to the children"
>continues to hide power level
>be me
>selecting images to go along with assessment questions
>research images by tag: "smiling woman"
>return results tagged: "latino woman smiling," "happy same sex couple"
If race/sex/orientation don't matter, why is this relevant?
>>13551837
Literally every reading, English, and social studies curriculum has a lolocaust unit in every grade and possibly every chapter.
Is there a single industry not kiked?
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No.13555112
>>13555097
I was lucky to have spent years writing curricula in Saudi. Literally the promised land of not-having-to-hide-the-powerlevel. Coming back to America has been physically painful.
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No.13555133
I've learned basic russian from duolingo and op is just an autist cuck with a learning disability putting blame on teaching strategies
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No.13555146
>>13555133
You spent a bunch of time doing multiple-choice questions that could be solved by brute pattern recognition, and could thus be successfully accomplished by a crow. Just because Duolingo gave you XP (oh hey; it's almost like they know how vidya-game addled brains react to the dopamine triggers) doesn't mean you know Russian. Duolingo has no "teaching strategy." It has a let's-make-people-feel-good rat-pellet strategy.
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No.13555253
>>13552736
i don't know how kikes can even take themselves seriously when they look this fuckin goofy
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No.13555301
>>13555189
I am lucky that I can no longer even make it through the oblate negro spheroid gauntlet of the normal American university HR department in order to even consider applying for a job here. Back in 2015 I refused to participate in LGBT week and wasn't recontracted.
<the joys of the adjunct professor
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No.13555399
I had been using it for a couple of years too, I finally lost it and trashed it after seeing the n-th interracial couple picture.
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No.13555486
Can we please get a word filter for Svalbard = I’m a stupid nigger
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No.13555605
>>13555486
Anyone who cannot understand the allure of the hyperborean frontier is a spiritual nigger and has no home on /pol/. Please go back to Fark nå, takk.
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No.13555802
>>13551765
That ain't nothing, peep this. Not only is she shitting on white kids, she's shilling for Netflix pedo kids shows on her Twitter.
Gradually I become more and more convinced that ethnostate is the only solution. So enraging!
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No.13561233
an actual good post on education (from a /cuckchan/ thread on Clinton's latest email release)
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No.13561282
>>13552064
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_to_Investigate_Tax-Exempt_Foundations_and_Comparable_Organizations
Thanks, please make sure the next Trump administration runs such a investigation.
>>13552305
And also thanks, I may learn it.
>>13552446
We have three articles in German and use all of them, which might make the language hard to learn. But we use more compound words, so you might not need to learn that many unrelated words like someone learning English (which sucks).
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No.13561308
>>13555605
We won’t be doing what you want, jew.
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No.13563905
>>13551765
I got this a while back
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No.13564056
>>13551765
>As part of my eventual move to Svalbard
Who are you? That was my plan, too. Then I looked up the demographics: it's full of SEA monkies. There simply is no such thing as a white country anymore.
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No.13564084
>>13551765
>Long story quite short: Duolingo is total fucking shit
I'm learning Dutch on Duolingo and I get none of those things you mentioned. In fact, I have not seen a single real piece of poz.
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No.13564140
>>13564084
Even if you're not getting those things, Duolingo is still shit. Any primer on Second Language Acquisition will explain why this is the case.
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No.13564232
>>13564140
>Even if you're not getting those things, Duolingo is still shit. Any primer on Second Language Acquisition will explain why this is the case.
What do you recommend then?
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No.13564298
>>13561233
Well this made me sad.
To know we're so heavily fucked from the get go. I mean I sort of knew but to hear it properly described throws it into a new light.
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No.13565768
>>13551765
Also been using Duolingo to learn German. Have you noticed that a toilet is used as the icon for household-related lessons?
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>>13564232
As far as apps go, Clozemaster and LingQ are both better. L2 acquisition really is all about comprehensible input (existing just at the edge of it) and context; Duolingo is magnificently bad at both. Leaving aside its absurd claims (34 hours of Duolingo is the same as a semester's class? No.) its ubiquity should be a fairly clear indicator that it's not serious. In exactly the same way that Rosetta Stone was a pile of shit before it, so too is Duolingo nothing more than marketing mixed with clever design. (muh XP)
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