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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 ๐ค
I know about Babbel, but there are so many like Aimigo or Mondly
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!
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.
I wish, but an hour by bike wouldn't even get me close to anywhere with a different language, not even another dialect.
According to Google Maps, it'd be 26 hours to get to the closest border by bicycle (500 km).
I wasn't interested in learning Russian BEFORE the war, what makes you think I want to go to that part of town now?
It's a single language and for English speakers, but Practice Portuguese says it's made in Portugal and run by an LDA there.
It has some gamification elements if you want, but isn't intrusive about it if you don't want that.
Babbel is pretty good and made in Germany. There's no free/ad-financed version though, only a free trial period before you gotta pay. There's not a whole lot of gamification but it has a streak mechanism like Duolingo which is enough to keep me practicing daily.
Babbel?
Also there is a leaderboard for Anki which adds Gamification, with Leagues and stuff
WordDive is ~~miles~~ kilometres better than Duolingo but (a) doesn't have the same selection of languages and (b) isn't free. But if you're looking to learn one of the languages they do have and are serious enough that you're willing to pay for a good service, then it's a no-brainer.
Man WordDive's marketing is myriametres worse than Duolingo though
Can't find one. Busuu and RosettaStone are Americans (Busuu was first developed in Spain), iTalki and Lingodeer are Chinese