I’m looking for an alternative to duolingo, the main appeal for me of duolingo is the gamification of the app as this helps me to stay consistent (so just normal flashcards would not be suitable).
Thanks in advance
Not gamified, but the best language-learning system I’ve ever used (sorry if total immersion) is the donation-supported Language Transfer.
Intuitive and not just bunch of rote memorization. Made up of roughly 10-minutes audio files, available in YouTube, SoundCloud, or the simple but elegant app.
The languages available are French, German, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili. All taught by one man, who is Greek-British!
I would like to direct your attention to Lingonaut, a project that will have its beta released in the near future. (you will also be able to import you streak from duolingo to Lingonaut).
It will be an app like duolingo except without all the greed, i.e. completely free for anyone (funded by donations, like from myself), no subscription tiers or ads, and it will have, among other things, courses made compeltely by (human) volunteers, course structure like duo used to have, sentence discussions and so on. The developer is based in czechia/uk.
I myself am also a volunteer for the finnish course, but the languages will be released according to how many volunteers there are for each language. The first one out will be Czech.
It seems really cool but at the same time I have a few red flags from realizing that they are on Discord, Reddit and X, rather than Matrix, Lemmy and Mastodon. This doesn’t align with the FOSS vibe
Speakly (Estonia) not gamified other than stats and streaks but I think its better than duolingo- https://speakly.me/en/about-us
MosaLingua (France) - https://www.mosalingua.com/en/mosalingua-business-solutions/If you are ok with Canada…
LingQ (Canada) have Challenges you can participate in - https://www.lingq.com/en/about/
Ouinolanguages (Canada) not gamified - https://www.ouinolanguages.com/termsandconditions/There a few alternatives on Go European
Just type duolingo in the search field.l I did not know, that there are so many language learning apps 🤔
I know about Babbel, but there are so many like Aimigo or Mondly
The European alternative is riding your bicycle in one direction for an hour, then talking to the people who live there in their native tongue.
Do you live in like Aix-les-Bains? It’s not really possible from most European towns
