If you’re paying for Praktika, you need to see this

I just did an in-depth review of Praktika where I tested my native language as well as the language I’m learning. I found some big red flags. Praktika is making over $2million revenue a month. It makes me a bit sad that so many people are spending their money on something that’s such poor quality. Maybe they don’t realise. 🚩 Red flag 1: I spotted mistakes in the English in the interface. This is proves that the content wasn’t written or checked by a native English speaking human. Below are just 2 examples of many. https://preview.redd.it/r5hdbbv8dbug1.png?width=1669&format=png&auto=webp&s=3312eafa8a2f5d020c6c9bce525d90fd60110fb0 🚩 Red flag 2: When the Spanish teacher speaks English, she speaks it with an Italian accent. (Video here: https://youtu.be/_MJJrzLbavc?si=V8FnzAliFOrlvZAo&t=263 ) I’m not saying Italians can’t teach Spanish but this feels like an error or at least another thing that hasn’t been checked by a human. It’s just been generated by AI with no quality control. I also saw a ‘British’ English tutor who spoke with an American accent. 🚩 Red flag 3: They have a ‘word of the day’ feature. The word of the day that I was shown for learning English was ‘ordinance’. Useless! It’s such a technical and specific word. I’ve never used it in my life. This shows me that the list of words is probably AI-generated and the list has never been checked by a human native speaker. It even tried to make me have a whole conversation about the word ordinance! If this was a language I was learning, I would have no idea that I was having a whole conversation about a completely useless word. I only discovered that because I tested in my native language. https://preview.redd.it/hw795kq5dbug1.png?width=1404&format=png&auto=webp&s=b8eff3c73edc9463a3c9efe75a8c27e76df3a34b 🚩 Red flag 4: You can click words to see a definition, which is a good idea, but only if the definition is correct in the context! I clicked ‘general’. It was the first and only word I tried and it was defined badly. It gave an example where it used a different definition of the word, to the one that was used in the conversation! So that was more useless than not having the translation at all. https://preview.redd.it/7823nq38dbug1.png?width=1644&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee6042b6f1b15548cd191c20e31879ffcb9ee114 submitted by /u/de_cachondeo [link] [comments]

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