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Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Luckiesock@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that this post is a total load of bs.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Breve@pawb.social 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I like how they don't label the y-axis at all to give any sense of scale. This graph could be showing a jump from 10 to 22 people. 🤷

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

That's what I was thinking. Probably not that small, but not a lot it's a notoriously hard language to learn. You have to be pretty stupid or nieve to think you're learning it on Duolingo.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Could it be just bots?

[–] Luckiesock@lemm.ee -3 points 15 hours ago

My niece is one of tiktok's victims and she is as young and lazy to even construct herself a sandwich. Nevermind learning a language as confusing and backwards as mandarin or Cantonese.