Please delete this if I’m in the wrong sub to ask this!
I’m looking to learn a new language without relying on data harvesting apps. Is there a privacy friendly platform I can use, or a FOSS app (android)?
Textbooks and teachers.
Most privacy-friendly way would probably be using a textbook.
Thank you. Feel a bit stupid for not thinking of this. Don’t suppose you have a recommendation for a book on learning Spanish?
I have a suggestion that is not FOSS, but it is privately held so the pressure to be profitable each quarter is not at all the same as publicly held companies.
Check out the privacy policies of LingQ and Rosetta Stone. Idk if they’re good, but I know they’re the most efficient language-learning apps right now. They require the least amount of minutes using them to achieve the highest scores in standardized language tests.
They require the least amount of minutes using them to achieve the highest scores in standardized language tests.
What’s the source of this info?
Thanks! If I’m reading that second link correctly, they rank “Babbel” with a higher score than LingQ and Rosetta Stone?
Yeah, the green number shows the improvement, and Babbel users improved more. What the green number doesn’t tell you is how much time it took to get there. If you look at that, Babbel is more inefficient than LingQ and Rosetta Stone.
Interesting, thanks!
Date a native speaker of that language for a while.
I tried, but my wife put a stop to it.
Actually not bad advice if they are into you badly speaking their language to them at first 😂
A real course with a real human teacher.
Wouldn’t this require sharing information with the school that organizes the course and any vendors that support them? Schools, payment processors and student information systems eventually sell or leak data.
A book you get from your local library.
Local libraries require ID if you wanna borrow them. Better read in the premises or buy one with cash
For when you want to learn something, but with the thrill of dealing crack.
Babel mini app in delta chat ;p
Man I love those apps in Delta, finally some functionality that’s actually useful for once.
