return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoDuolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNotetechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1367cross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.mlduolingo@sopuli.xyznews@beehaw.org
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minus-squareمهما طال الليل@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 days agoThis Tiktok ban is going to make people in the US do what they never did before and learn a second language. 万岁
minus-squarerealharo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·2 days agoMore like start learning a second language and give up after a week. This may be a stereotype, but TikTok specifically caters to people with short attention spans.
minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoYeah learning to speak Mandarin is one thing but learning to read it feels fucking impossible if you don’t start young.
minus-squareERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoStep 1: Die Step 2: Reincarnate in Taiwan (don’t pick mainland China like I did in my current incarnation)
minus-squareByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoGateway learning. I learned Spanish to write love letters in 2nd grade. And now 30 years later, I know like a dozen languages at a basic level, but still good enough to be sent all over the world on business trips for free.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI wonder how many 7 year olds are picking up Mandarin to protest this tiktok thing.
This Tiktok ban is going to make people in the US do what they never did before and learn a second language. 万岁
More like start learning a second language and give up after a week.
This may be a stereotype, but TikTok specifically caters to people with short attention spans.
Yeah learning to speak Mandarin is one thing but learning to read it feels fucking impossible if you don’t start young.
Step 1: Die
Step 2: Reincarnate in Taiwan (don’t pick mainland China like I did in my current incarnation)
Gateway learning.
I learned Spanish to write love letters in 2nd grade.
And now 30 years later, I know like a dozen languages at a basic level, but still good enough to be sent all over the world on business trips for free.
I wonder how many 7 year olds are picking up Mandarin to protest this tiktok thing.