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"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)
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[–] wafflez@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I just wish there were foss alternatives to Duolingo

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They exist, but they often lack the front end polish and they never get the kind of publicity enjoyed by their for-profit peers.

10,000 sentences and OpenWords are others to consider.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Librelingo

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Try Language Transfer. It's free and different in how it teaches.

[–] visnae@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Anki is the best language app I've yet encountered including non-foss alternatives, but I needed to watch their tutorial video to understand the ui. Also it is only a flip-card app, so you might want to complement it with something else.