I’m in the health and fitness section of practicing French on Duolingo.
Some of the exercises are close to home and others made me want to throw my phone across the room.
But then there were a slew of fatphobic statements that would never come out of my mouth in any language.
In the Maintenance Phase forum someone asks, “Any other Duolingo users felt a little offput by some of the very diet culture heavy phrases they’re being taught? I skipped ahead through a whole unit so I wouldn’t have to do those sentences everyday 🥴”
I did that unit and I was surprised at how strong my reaction was. I didn’t skip it. Instead, I whizzed through it at break neck pace and only later wished I’d screen captured some of the examples.
There was a lot of “maigrir” and “grossir” and “en forme.”
I’m not the only person to notice it,