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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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[โ€“] return2ozma@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

It's real...

Source: https://x.com/duolingo/status/1879582775055176008

[โ€“] Breve@pawb.social 5 points 4 hours ago

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. ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] Luckiesock@lemm.ee -3 points 4 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.

[โ€“] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Could it be just bots?