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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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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

I likes busuu a lot, felt a lot like old Duolingo, but with more relevant lessons. Duo can introduce potentially unhelpful vocabulary and grammar very early on, and now with the crown system every lesson just feels like pedantic repetition, busuu is fun, properly leveled, and has native speakers, with the Chinese course at least.

I'd be curious to hear which language you try and how it turns out for you since I've only done Chinese so far.

[-] sab@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

Never heard of busuu before, but tried it now and am enjoying it a lot. Thank you!

It's also worth giving a shout-out to LibreLingo, which aims to be an open source version of Duolingo. For now it's only Spanish though, and as I'm not interested in learning Spanish at the moment I haven't gotten any real use out of it.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Oh awesome, I appreciate the rec, I'll check it out. Thanks!

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