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Lingonaut - A free language learning app currently in development (lingonaut.app)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rei@piefed.social to c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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I'm really rooting for this project; it has a lot of promise. It's crowd-sourced and plans to be ad-free.

If you're more curious about details and future plans for the app, the creator did an AMA on Reddit recently.

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[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's not clear if the developers are simply trying to build a free alternative to Duolingo, but I'm not a fan of that approach anyway.

I tried Duolingo, but it was really just a flashy form of rote memorization. I had much greater success using Language Transfer, which is also free but is a series of MP3s.

Maybe this could be used in conjunction with LT, the former for vocabulary and the latter building up grammar and processing skills.

[–] rei@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I'm not sure how similar it will be to Duolingo, but the creator stated that it will include teaching grammar, which would already make it better than Duolingo.

I'm also not a huge fan of Duolingo, but I do use it because the language I'm trying to learn doesn't have a lot of great free options. However, Lingonaut will have it, so I'm looking forward to it.

Language Transfer seems really cool. I wish I could try it, but their courses don't include the language I'm trying to learn. Which language did you use LT to learn?