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Whats a privacy friendly way of learning a new language? (feddit.uk)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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)?

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[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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?

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Here: https://comparelanguageapps.com/index.html and here: https://comparelanguageapps.com/Vocabulary-or-Grammar-Proficiency.html

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks! If I'm reading that second link correctly, they rank "Babbel" with a higher score than LingQ and Rosetta Stone?

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Interesting, thanks!