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Lingonaut - A free language learning app currently in development

lingonaut.app Lingonaut – A language learning app to teach, not to profit.

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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  • 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.

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    • 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?

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