I’ve been using Duolingo to casually learn French. I also used school method (setup classroom with one email id and enrolled using another) to avoid ads, limited hearts, and leaderboards.

However, Duolingo has started showing ads and limiting hearts since last month for me. I checked reddit and seems like they’ve been rolling out these changes since last 3 months or so.

So I’d like to know what are the alternatives available for Duolingo?

      • Alado@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I’m so sorry. A few years ago I used Memrise to learn a language (I was learning Portuguese at the time). And I have the fondest memories. After writing my comment, I installed the app again and was horrified: there was almost nothing left of the that Memrise. Damn AI has crawled in there too. The ‘ordinary people from the street’ who voiced the phrases disapeared. I can hardly recommend this app now. God, why can’t we ever leave alone something that just works!

    • thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      I’ve used this (paid for it) a bit, and it seems better - but when I get busy it falls away and I’m just working on maintaining my duolingo streak :-( I think MemRise is better as long as you appropriately motivated.