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Alternatives to Duolingo (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
 

Hello,

A few alternatives to Duolingo (which hasn't been that good for a while now)

So here are some tips

  • Drops app - Originally from Estonia, now a Kahoot! company which is from Norway. In few minutes a day for unpaid version it builds your vocabulary and you can also search by the topic. They offer wide range of languages. They also support Ukraine.

Link: https://languagedrops.com/

  • Babbel - Most widely known subscription-based app where you learn with language professionals. Origin in Germany.

Link: https://www.babbel.com/

  • Preply - Tutoring platform focused on languages originating in Ukraine. It is like a marketplace where tutors offer their language services and you can book tutor for language you want to learn.

Link: https://preply.com/

  • Lingoda - German online language school

Link: https://www.lingoda.com/

https://www.memrise.com/ is British

Feel free to share more if you have them and/or your experience with the ones above

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[–] ben826@feddit.org 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

While probably not for everyone, my preferred solution was always a flash card app like Anki or similar.

There are many shared flash card decks for many languages and topics. I've also always felt that being able to modify the flash cards for my own needs was very important.

[–] Aufgehtsabgehts@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I want to add a fun (at least for me) way to use flash cards:

I take a songtext in the language I want to learn, feed it to an LLM with the prompt:

List every word in this text in column A in a .csv-file. Don't list a word that is already listed. Translate every word and write the translation in column B. Check, if every word of the text is listed once in column A. If it isn't, add it and translate it.

I then feed this .csv-file into the flashcard app VocableTrainer (available on F-Droid) and learn those words. After that, I am happy to sing along to a song I now know the meaning of. Songs stay in my head very easy and so do those new learned words.

(The prompt might not be quite right, I talk German with my LLM and tried to roughly translate what I normaly write. Just check if it works and adjust it.)

Would be great, if someone could programm such a function into a vocab-trainer.

[–] vfscanf@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

Cool idea, I'm going to give that a try 🙂