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Each time I read this kind of feedback, I wonder if there should be a free, community driven, alternative to Duolingo. - Content may be provided by contributor
by laurentlb 1y ago
Each time I read this kind of feedback, I wonder if there should be a free, community driven, alternative to Duolingo.
- Content may be provided by contributors (like Duolingo did for many years)
- It could be supported by donations (I believe the costs can be kept low)
My feeling is that lots of problems with Duolingo are caused by monetization (and many things were better in Duolingo a few years ago).
I'm still not sure of how it should be designed and what we need exactly. One of the problems is also to get enough contributors. I'd be interested in hearing more thoughts on this.
As a hobby, I started building an alternative to the Duolingo Stories feature (https://lingostories.org https://lingostories.org), but it's still fairly limited.
- lambertsimnel 1y agoCould LibreLingo be a useful step in this direction? Previously discussed in April (363 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829035 And in 2022 (2 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34142852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34142852
- agnishom 1y agoIt would be lovely if such a project pans out. However, I would say that for very popular languages (Japanese, in my case), there are probably good (but paid) niche apps/resources. If your target language is Finnish, there are fewer options, like another commenter points out on the parent thread.
- ChadNauseam 1y agoI'm making a free/unmonetized language learning app as my side project. (I made it out of anger at duolingo, lol.) You can check it out at https://yap.town https://yap.town . It's sophisticated in some ways but simplistic in others, for example there are not yet any stories. If you want to collaborate, hit me up, my email is in my bio. I think the world needs an actually-good language learning app