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This is probably the wrong way to look at this.

A more interesting question is: why are we doing this? Why are people learning foreign languages?

It can be:

- To interact with other human being -> so just find a language exchange

- Because we are bored -> just find another human being

- To find a job / immigrate in an other country -> but it seems AI will replace this job you are after anyway

It is a bit the same with cars. For a long time I wished we had self driving cars because I was commuting 4, 5, 6 hours a day to earn more.

But what would I do when I will have all that money?

Probably enjoy driving an old analog car or better ride my horse everyday.

Also anybody here eating poison with the dream of growing your own food?

So always look at the big picture and you will see DuoLingo is irrelevant anyway. It is another robotic hamster wheel like Instagram and TikTok.



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