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"Courses" is a strong word for what Duolingo offers. It just shows you flashcards, but never explains grammar/syntax rules. Lingodeer is far superior.
Perdonally I've heard a ton of good things about Language Transfer despite not using it myself
Thanks for the recommendation! Difficult to find genuine and good language apps these days that don't cost to much money and or are riddled with ads and intrusive tracking.
I really noticed my Spanish improved after watching videos on Dreaming Spanish link
Thank you for sharing this it looks great. They’re iOS app requires minimal permissions too which seems to be rare for language apps
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Seems like it's just audio files. I'll check it out tonight
Duolingo does have that function. It's much more obvious on desktop web, but in the phone app, you tap the notebook icons to the right of the headings. I mean, they're not necessarily excellent explanations, but they're there.
They removed that feature, at least for Finnish.
They removed the comment section a few months ago too. There were some really excellent explanations in there!
You might say that feature is finnished
That feature was never there in the app for norwegian at all. They just added something similar which is basically the review of all the sentences in the lesson. Fucking useless if you ask me.
The problem with all these alternatives is that the language selection is extremely limited. You want to learn English, French, German, or Spanish? Great, there are a million options for you! But if you go a bit more niche like Finnish or Irish, your options are much more limited. Of course there are ways to learn those languages - and much better ways than Duolingo. But Duolingo's strength is offering a bunch of them, for free, in one place.
Note that I'm not trying to defend Duolingo, but rather deploring the lack of alternatives.
The old tree had grammar bits (for some languages only in the browser) but the new one is just bad
Lingodeer is a technical mess with popups, banners and lock or crown icons everywhere. There are situations where it just won't let you continue to the next lesson and the flow inside the exercises is very janky. Turning off the animations helps a lot but it's nowhere near the ease of use of Duolingo.
I use Duolingo (and actually pay for it) and I agree 100% with this. The app is primarily about keeping you engaged and on the app. The method is by attempting to teach you a language.
Just gonna hijack this and recommend https://www.renshuu.org/ for everybody trying to learn Japanese.
It's probably the best compaion-app I have found for learning the language.