Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted?
Or perhaps a self-hosteable webapp i could add the words myself from curated sources on the internet to then do quizzes on it?
25 or so years ago, I learnt Esperanto (my first second language) by chatting on the Internet. I'd have two windows open - one with the IRC client, and the other with a terminal and a shell script that would grep a txt file with consistent formatting. "esp esperantoVerbPrefix/" or "esp noun," or "esp affix-" would typically return the correct result in a split second. Thanks to the simple grammar (that I had quickly memorized), I could hold conversations in near real time as a result.
I wish I could have learnt my other languages as easily.
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Inspired by xkcd's thing explainer I generated a list of how often words appeared in subtitles on opensubtitles for my target language.
I whipped those into a database, added manual translation for the top-1000 and started quizzing myself with a tiny php script.
It was more fun to code than to actually quiz myself. I think I played the top-100 before I got bored.
Maybe something like this?
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+1 for LinguaCafe. It's amazing, it replaces another proprietary app called LingQ
Anki ?
Anki is amazing, but it's not self hosted without some effort.
https://github.com/LuckyTurtleDev/docker-images/tree/main/dockerfiles/anki
start with env var sync_user1=username:password or something like that
change server url in anki desktop or ankidroid to what you started in docker
done
Not self-hosted but Language Transfer is pretty awesome.
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https://www.languagetransfer.org/app
This is cool. Thanks.
Welcome!
Not self hosted but look at your local library, I am in the US and my library has Mango Languages for free, and Duolingo does not seem to be the recommended way to really learn a new language.
I made a PHP-based one a while ago before Duolingo offered Swahili. It probably needs a little upgrading, ha. A cool project and you can do it for most things. Oh plus it’s raw PHP so snappy as heck you youngins. https://github.com/ryanchausse/githeri
anki has a self hostable sync server, i am hosting it right now and works very well