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Re:The meanest app: Duolingo subjects its users to "emotiona... by barrell on Monday August 05, 2024 @08:31AM (#41160713)
Babbel kind of takes traditional textbook style learning, and adapts it quite well to technology. It's also built around really colloquial conversations, and the audio is high quality. I would say it tends to focus more on how people actually speak than textbook-style speech

Rosetta Stone was the big player before Duolingo. They had a method that involved not using your mother tongue, which they called 'immersion'. I believe in the recent years (since Duolingo ate their pie) they have moved more and more towards dueling style learning. They have an app that's a lot more corporate, but I've heard good things about it too

Note, I haven't used either of these applications in years, I just work in the space and this is my understanding of them

Re:The meanest app: Duolingo subjects its users to "emotiona... by aswerty on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @08:53AM (#41170399)
Thanks for the summation. I was aware of Rosetta Stone as an older entity.

Babbel sounds interesting.