<story><title>Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/duolingo-valued-65-bln-shares-soar-debut-2021-07-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vncecartersknee</author><text>Honestly from using duolingo pretty heavily for a couple of years, attending language classes and doing my own individual study I&amp;#x27;ve found duolingo pretty useless. It&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; and gives one the sense of progress without really accomplishing much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ngokevin</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m trying a language learning startup and surveyed a lot of people. The response is universal that everyone&amp;#x27;s tried Duolingo, and it didn&amp;#x27;t work for them in actually learning, despite monster streaks.&lt;p&gt;I think it&amp;#x27;s masterful as a dopamine machine and employing habit building tactics. Perhaps it&amp;#x27;s a good icebreaker for people in language learning, as long as people are resourceful enough to look beyond Duolingo.</text></comment>
<story><title>Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/duolingo-valued-65-bln-shares-soar-debut-2021-07-28/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vncecartersknee</author><text>Honestly from using duolingo pretty heavily for a couple of years, attending language classes and doing my own individual study I&amp;#x27;ve found duolingo pretty useless. It&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; and gives one the sense of progress without really accomplishing much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Areading314</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t agree more. I made some progress on Japanese only to find that when I spoke it was completely incomprehensible to a native speaker. I think speech&amp;#x2F;pronunciation correction is still an unsolved problem.</text></comment>