{"id":554,"date":"2026-07-05T22:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:44:14","slug":"culture-shock-of-doulingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/culture-shock-of-doulingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Shock, Courtesy of Duolingo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/df4fa6fe4b05dca26886c3ead9bc3718-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"My sister and her ex-wife are divorced.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\u8fd9\u51e0\u5929\u5728\u73a9\u591a\u90bb\u56fd\u3002\u8fde\u7740\u78b0\u5230\u51e0\u4e2a\u4f8b\u53e5\uff0c\n &#8220;They are a gay couple and very happy together&#8221;\uff1b &#8220;We&#8217;re going to a gay bar tonight&#8221;\uff1b\u8fd8\u6709\u4e00\u53e5 &#8220;My sister and her ex-wife are divorced&#8221;\u3002\n\u53ef\u4ee5\u7406\u89e3\uff0c\u8fd8\u662f\u6709\u70b9\u6587\u5316\u51b2\u51fb\u3002\n\u6bcf\u4e00\u90e8\u6559\u6750\u90fd\u6709\u81ea\u5df1\u7684\u4ef7\u503c\u89c2\u3002\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6d068edc008fda0921a34444522c5f0f-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"They are a gay  couple and very  happy together.\"\/><\/figure>\n\nBeen on a Duolingo kick these past few days, and a few of the example sentences made me do a double-take:\n&#8220;They are a gay couple and very happy together.&#8221;\n&#8220;We&#8217;re going to a gay bar tonight.&#8221;\n&#8220;My sister and her ex-wife are divorced.&#8221;\nMakes sense, still a little jarring, coming from where I grew up.\nTurns out every textbook comes with its own worldview.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/899891791ea15ff8f6fabea84a4acbe9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"We're going to a gay bar tonight\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u8fd9\u51e0\u5929\u5728\u73a9\u591a\u90bb\u56fd\u3002\u8fde\u7740\u78b0\u5230\u51e0\u4e2a\u4f8b\u53e5\uff0c &#8220;They are a gay couple and very happy together&#8221;\uff1b &#8220;We&#8217;re going to a gay bar tonight&#8221;\uff1b\u8fd8\u6709\u4e00\u53e5 &#8220;My sister and her ex-wife are divorced&#8221;\u3002 \u53ef\u4ee5\u7406\u89e3\uff0c\u8fd8\u662f\u6709\u70b9\u6587\u5316\u51b2\u51fb\u3002 \u6bcf\u4e00\u90e8\u6559\u6750\u90fd\u6709\u81ea\u5df1\u7684\u4ef7\u503c\u89c2\u3002 Been on a Duolingo kick these past few days, and a few of the example sentences made me do a double-take: &#8220;They are a gay couple and very happy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[69,75,76],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation","tag-ai","tag-education","tag-76"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jackypeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}