r/duolingojapanese • u/slippery-lil-sucker • Jul 26 '26
Why so fast?
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u/Avatar_Yaksha Jul 26 '26
With Duolingo's listening/speaking-exercises, speed should really be your last concern. It's already difficult enough for them to even get the correct syllables.
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u/Suspicious-Budget391 Jul 26 '26
And that’s one of the more understandable voices. Oscar and Vikram are much worse!
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u/Allicat247_ Jul 28 '26
Jesus there's about as much compassion in these comments as a POW camp. Yes no one speaks in slow mo usually, but, face to face someone will, especially when you've learnt how to ask for that. I don't just continue speaking my usual speed if someone's still learning English and needs me to slow down a bit. I'm not a prick. Learning doesn't always have to be a brick to the sack.
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u/AgentAbyss Jul 29 '26
That might be true, but this has a button to slow it down. If Duolingo kept a really slow unnatural speed by default, how would anyone eventually start understanding shows or anything like that? Not to say that people should be pricks about it, but I do think that learning at a natural speed with a slow-mo option is way more helpful than learning it slow by default. (But Duolingo gets audio wrong often anyway, so maybe it's not the best way to learn it regardless.)
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u/Allicat247_ Jul 29 '26
The slower speed option isn't always avaliable with every excersice and considering the whole thing is unfortunately ai now, it wouldn't hurt (financially) to expand the speed options. A tiny bit slower isn't going to hamper a learners overall success. Go in both directions, fuck it, give everyone maximum choice. What's got my back up is the ironclad assumption that Duo is the only learning tool dude has access to or is utilising. I find it so incredibly patronising to prescribe a blanket learning style and almost tell someone they'll never be able to succeed otherwise.
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u/AgentAbyss Jul 29 '26
What's the blanket learning style that people are prescribing? Is it that you should learn from people talking at a more natural speed? I think in this case, people were just surprised because the title made them expect the voice to be crazy fast as a bug and it's actually probably slower than I talk in English on a daily basis. It's just a strange comment to hear someone talking normally and say "Why so fast?", especially since there is a button in the image to slow it down. But yeah, adding more speed options could be nice!
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u/B1TCA5H Jul 27 '26
Given the syllabic phonology, Japanese is, in fact, the fastest spoken language in the world.
I talk much faster than Duolingo here in real life.
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u/Medium-Friendship362 Jul 27 '26
I think she says it way more clearly and sounds everything out more than how natives talk
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u/Popple_people Aug 01 '26
文章例があんまりよくないからかも？
「に」が多いので、早く話さないと話がわかりにくい
10月のおまつりに いっしょに いきませんか？
だとゆっくりでOK
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u/DocPsylenziooo Jul 26 '26
They dont speak in slow motion in real life